It’s an annoyance for sure but I hate using off or other deterrents. Plus I guess I am contributing to the eco system somewhat by giving them nourishment.
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Hahahahaha
Dammit almost made me wake up my better half from laughing!
You aren’t providing nourishment necessarily, they just use a protein in your blood to produce their eggs. They bite you then go lay their eggs.
I will gladly offer you as sacrifice to the mosquitoes in my stead. I’ve had dengue once, it was fucking awful.
You’d feel differently, if you lived somewhere malaria was common.
Most people get malaria from the bite of an infective mosquito, also called a vector.
Most cases of malaria diagnosed in the U.S. are in people who have traveled to or from other countries where malaria is widespread. We call this imported malaria.
Locally acquired, mosquito-transmitted malaria is a rare event in the U.S.
They also might not have the enzyme or whatever it is that makes mosquito bites itch.
Washington DC is a malarial swamp.
I guess you’re lucky to not live in a place with malaria and dengue.
Or chagas. Or chikungunya. Or any of a number of other aegyptus-spread diseases. A species that is not native to most of the world, is not a natural pet of most ecosystems, and which doesn’t contribute in any meaningful way to almost any ecosystem in the world.
To be fair, the Chagas vector isn’t a mosquito, it’s a big motherfucker who shits in your mouth when you’re sleeping
Yup, Chagas is delivered by this fucking bloodsucker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatoma_infestans
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The most unpopular opinion.
Pack it up folks, this one wins
a truly unpopular opinion. i take it you don’t hail from inland alaska or florida.
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never been there, have ya?
https://unofficialnetworks.com/2013/08/01/mosquito-swarms-alaska/
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glorious cake day to you
You are only contributing to the small subset of mosquitoes that feed on humans. And spread diseases among them.
Historically speaking, the mosquito is one of the biggest killer in human history. If not the biggest.
Smallpox might still have any one mosquito borne illness like malaria beat.
The biggest is humanity. Also, they feed on humans and spread diseases.
FREAK (no offense)
Enjoy your Dengue, Malaria, Zika, Ross River, West Nile, Barmah Forest, Chikungunya, Elephantiasis, Japanese Encephalitis, Murray Valley and/or Yellow Fever.
builds character
For the medics and nurses
It does, a comic character as a good example of what not to do.
There’s got to be an upper limit where it’s unbearable without bug spray. Head to Northern Canada, go for a tromp in the bush, and find out what yours is!
as a floridian that is very… familiar… with mosquitos… are you telling me that your northern Canadian cold doesn’t do shit to them ?
well hell fire have we tried nuking them from orbit?
Nah the cold does kill them off, it’s just that the summer months are still hot and boggy. Best if both worlds.
that is one of the perks of living ‘up north’… no bugs outside in the winter.
Mosquitoes are hell in the north too. But the winter kills the sub species of mosquitoes that carry the diseases, except for maybe west nile but that’s not a huge deal. Oh yeah, and eastern equine encephalitis but that is super rare.
Or any patch of tallish grass.
Take a large amount of vitamin B-12 daily. B-12 is what you may have associated with the smell of fresh baked bread. The tablets smell like a commercial bakery. You can’t overdose on B-12, you just sweat it out. Sweating it out masks the smell of your blood, and mosquitoes, ticks, chiggers, and fleas will all just kinda ignore you. Doesn’t work on bedbugs since it doesn’t mask the smell of you exhaling, which is what bedbugs use to hunt.
A large amount would be between 500-1500 mg daily depending on your size.
I’ve been told if mosquito bites don’t itch it could mean you have a poor immune system. I for one have a thick blanket of fur and am not so bothered by them.
What I hate the most on them is that these bastards will fly really close to your ear right before sleeping. Light up the room to kill it? It is gone. Close the lights and head back to sleep? It is back, flying right next to your ear.
