Mosquito teeth

[highlandsun]

Recently on the mosquito science mailing list, someone posted a question... Apparently they had found a "True Fact" on the underside of a Snapple bottle cap claiming that mosquitoes have 47 teeth. The poster was asking where this "true fact" came from.

I thought this reply was most enlightening:

This Snapple 'fact' was discussed on the Entomology

Comments

[eigenvalue]

Very interesting. I came across the same snapple cap today, and I found it to be a rather strange "fact", so I decided to google it, and I came across this LJ post. Anyway, a lot of the google results seem to point to a book called "Book of Facts" by Isaac Asimov as being the source of the "fact".

Apparently, there's a 47 society; maybe they're involved in this ...