The question isn’t “Can you do it?” , it’s “Should you do it?”
While you’re having your fun blowing up those mosquitoes, think “West Nile Virus,” Equine Encephalitis," and, since I got this when doing my Peace Corp service in Kenya and was the sickest I’ve ever been, “Malaria.”
I wonder what other special hells you can get from these little blood-sucking beasts while you go about doing your ‘flexing your muscles’ experiments.
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If you can’t do it then the question of “should you do it?” becomes irrelevant…
Second, if the mosquito is already sucking your blood out you can presume that it’s already done any damage it’s going to do as far as communicating any diseases it’s carrying to you. So I would say go ahead and try to explode those little bastards.
Keep in mind that I am not a mosquito disease transmission expert but it seems logical, no?
Once it’s bitten you, you’re pretty much screwed, since that’s how you get it. Not from exploding blood. Might as well do some experimenting while you’re infected.
One argument I have heard for doing this is that the more blood extracted the less irritation from the anticoagulant injected at the start of the bite. This chemical is supposed to be the primary cause of the swelling/itching produced by the bite.
I’m surprised by the poster’s question, as well as Cecil’s answer. I didn’t know this was such a rare occurrence. Yes, you can make a mosquito explode flexing your arm if timed just right. I’ve done it at least twice. The first time, like many great discoveries, was by accident. The second time was on purpose. It’s a fast death, and ‘poetic justice’. No mosquitos were harmed during the writing of this posting, unfortunately.