what is the purpose of their “venom” (or whatever the stuff is that makes you itch) other than to drive us humans crazy? i know some snakes’ venom paralyzes its victims, but it doesn’t seem lik mosquitoes would have small enough prey to do that.
I believe it’s a temporary numbing agent that gives them the seconds they need to fill up. Without it, you’d know they jacked in, and stop their suckin’.
There’s no “venom”. The itching comes from your body’s response to the foreign substances in the mosquitoes “saliva” (i.e. histamine release).