Video: The hair of the nape of a mosquito's blood sucking

What really happens when a mosquito bites a person? Recently scientists of Pasteur Institute, Paris have recorded a scary film of hair on this blood sucking process.

The video shows the moment a mosquito carrying malaria virus sucks blood from a mouse. It takes a few minutes for this mosquito to find blood and another four minutes to suck blood. Mosquitoes carrying malaria viruses often take a long time to search around blood vessels.

The sucking of blood from mosquitoes causes some blood vessels to break.

The video was taken by French scientists, showing that the mosquito is not only sucking blood, but also looking around under the skin to find blood vessels.

To perform this experiment, the team used mice that were injected with antibodies that could detect mosquito's fluids.

Scientists discovered that antibodies reacted to the fluids secreted by mosquitoes by "locking" small blood vessels. This does not prevent mosquitoes from sucking blood but making them take longer to find larger blood vessels.

The scientists also said that sucking blood from mosquitoes causes some blood vessels to break, blood spills into the surrounding space, forming 'blood pools', where mosquitoes 'eat' are full.