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ok, so randomly while watching a show and having a beer, with enough light in the room, and 2-3 mosquitoes doing circles on me (I stay near a park), while I was checking my phone, one of them suddenly landed on my left pointer finger - for a second I wanted to squash it, then I realised I might be a witness to a mosquito attack and let it carry on...out of curiosity
so at first, the mosquito used its main legs to set itself up better on my finger...then he set its pump/tongue on my skin, gently pushing and pushing it to go through the epiderma...
all this while it waved it’s two antennas - at first both of them, then just the right one buzzing, kinda like in a signal to other mosquitos in my area that maybe she’s set and ready to continue the attack - then with its tongue, she pressed and pressed until I felt an acute pointy acke feeling like I was being stung...just like a bee sting, but waaay more gentle - but still felt it and got an “aaahcke!” sensation - all this while observing the creature and not moving a bit...then it just kept pushing and pushing thru’ my skin until she must of got under the skin layer to the blood vessels and while there, she again signaled with it’s right antenna to whoever was around that she got a byte...
From that moment on she used all its legs to push firmly into my skin and dug deeper with its tongue to reach a blood vessel and slowly started pumping...I watched all this from a range of 5-10cm, trying to be as still as possible to just watch and observe its behaviour...
She got to a blood vessel in the end and slowly started sucking...I could see its body pushing and sucking to draw blood from my body - its belly slowly starting to fill with blood...up until she got maybe a half-full belly with my blood...
then I put an end to this madness, squashed the creature and left some blood on my finger with its dead body...I went to wash out and kept thinking - mosquitoes are actually communicating while attacking a victim - maybe to signal “ok fuckers, this one is mine, stay away while I feed” or something, but def they are signalling to the other mosquitoes “something”...
As I’ve read, only the females mosquitoes attack as they need blood from mammals for its protein and iron needed to produce eggs and perpetuate the species
These fuckers are here since the Jurassic era and yeah in Jurassic Park they’ve used some of the blood to get DNA and clone dinosaurs so maybe in the distant future some kind of new intelligent and more evolved species will use that to clone us after we let capitalism destroy us in the next century...
Anyway...thought of sharing this with you ‘cuz I really can’t publish this little “story” in Nature and call it a day...
the main conclusion being these creatures are really at an intelligent level and have a complex communication/signalling strategy to talk with each other - the females - while feeding to perpetuate their species
p.s. ref from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo…
p.p.s Also I’ve read today randomly that Avon’s Skin So Soft lotion repels mosquitoes and if you have blood type 0 you're basically a magnet to these creatures
p.p.p.s. I might regret posting this on a public forum, but until we can delete QBN posts the show must go on, in the interest of Science!- *shegrafician
- it turns out that no, mosquitos aren’t intelligent and their communication, if any exists, isn’t complex. nothing to worry aboutmonospaced
- you now have malariaimbecile
- lol It was just an observationgrafician
- *might email discovery to turn this into a show*grafician
- crazy u saw it turn from a he to a she. true gender fluidity.deathboy
- who says she's communicating - maybe she's using antenna to detect movement in environmentshapesalad
- OH MAN, WHY DID YOU KILL HER?!
*zips fly back up*
That was just getting good.Nairn - No regertscannonball1978
- Cool story bro :)pedromendez
- I’ve heard, if you hold them down when they’re feeding, they can’t stop sucking blood and they burst.spunji
- Great story! Was compelled. Why kill her? Do the Right Thingsarahfailin
- Dengue.maquito