One hundred children visit the Faculty of Earth Sciences
The Faculty of Earth Sciences received around a hundred students who came to see Flebotín, un mosquit del Cretaci (Flebotín, a mosquito from the Cretaceous era) divided into two sessions, one for preschoolers and another for primary school students. Both groups were accompanied by the professor from the Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics and scientific advisor for the tale, Xavier Delclòs, who answered all doubts related to the story.
The story tells, for example, that a million years ago the Earth had another appearance but there was a defragmentation of the continents; that insects are the largest group of animals in the Earth; that an insect can be kept intact if it gets stuck in resin; that male mosquitoes don’t bite because they feed from nectar; or about the four life stages of a mosquito: egg, larva, pupa and adult.