If you passed out in the woods, could mosquitoes kill you. ? I was attacked by a herd of them in the park yesterday and was wondering.
I believe in some places (e.g. the arctic in summer) the mosquito density gets up to the point where they can cause significant blood loss and could almost certainly kill you if you were passed out for several hours while only lightly dressed - but at those levels they are literally intolerable, a hundred bites per minute or more on an unprotected person. :eek:
If you have that many mosquitoes in your woods, you would probably either not go there, or you would wear lots of protective clothing.
There is a very commonly quoted statistic about researchers in the arctic having clocked bite rates of up to 9000 per minute per person - although I’m a bit :dubious: about that since it’s never properly referenced or attributed, and how the heck would you count bites at a rate of more than ten per second?