Lake Como, Italy has all the ingredients to make for the perfect holiday.

Here you will find a few interesting facts about mosquitoes;

• A mosquito can "smell" its human blood dinner from a distance of up to approx 50 kilometres (30 miles) away.
• A mosquito can transmit fatal diseases such as; Malaria, Dengue Fever, Ross River Fever, and more. Around one million people die of Malaria world wide each year.
• Mosquitoes cannot transmit HIV as the virus cannot survive in the mosquito.
• It is only the female mosquito that bites as she needs blood for protein to make her eggs.
• Mosquitoes like sugary liquids such as plant plant nectar and fruit juices.
• Mosquitoes generally bite in the warmer weather.