You do realize this is the sort of thing that gets people taken away by guys in dark suits and sunglasses and shipped off to secret government laboratories in Nevada to be experimented on.
He’s too frightened to say anything about the matter.
Hal?
HAL?!
Are you there?!
Talk to us man, you’re freaking us out!
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Oh my god. There’s a black van outside my house…
Well…maybe you just smell horrible, since so few are willing to even take a sample taste! :eek:
I, too, am one of the lucky ones that most mosquitoes seem to avoid. I assume any that actually bite me are just doing it on a dare from their buddies. My daughter did not inherit that fortunate trait, as she is irresistible to all biting insects. She serves as our distant early warning system for fleas too - if there is just one in the house, it will find her! Then we know its time to break out the Frontline for the pets, lol.
I think it’s time we both just admit we don’t really need the mosquitos to justify our love for randomly firing buckshot around our vicinity.
Their “niche” is to suck the nectar from flowers. Mammal-blood is a sideline - the females need some before they can lay eggs. Conceivably a replacement-species would not be so dependent.
Good Lord, how large are your mosquitoes? We use birdshot around here.
The OP better be “killing them humanely”…or else Maastricht might go into conniptions yet again.
I recommend using a magnifying glass.
Dobermans. The size of dobermans.
Or lasers.
Why isn’t there a high-intensity laser that can watch the surrounding environment with highly sensitive high-speed cameras for these spawns of Cthulhu’s vagina, and zap them in mere nano-seconds, dozens at a time?
Of course, there’s the possibility of it becoming self-aware.
But a species that gets additional protein from blood will do better than one that only uses nectar.
Re lasers: I think Cracked had an article that mentioned this was a plan to kill mosquitoes
Bah. I eat tons of garlic and the suckers still go for me the moment I step outside the house. One of the bitches even invaded my house during the three seconds I had the door open one night, crawled down inside my shirt (!), and left a dotted line of bites across my frontal region. Which was then swollen even more than normal. And very, very itchy for a few days.
Maybe firearms would help.
I don’t normally get bitten either, as long as there are other victims around. I lived in Alaska for 41 years, and even in the interior (mosquitoes are horrible there), they didn’t bite me. They annoyed the hell out of me by getting in my eyes, nose, and mouth and by constantly buzzing all around but very few bites.
I :
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Adore garlic (and spicy stuff)
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Love cilantro as well.
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I am pretty sure I don’t chew betel, since I don’t know what it is.
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never smoked (tobacco), never will
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I haven’t fired a gun since the late 90s.
I. Am. Fine.
No. Need. For. Further. Curiosity.
One landed at the Columbus Airport and they had 5,000 gallons of fuel in it before they realized what it was.
Cool!
Did they light it off?
I moved to Florida as a kid and would get big welts from the mosquito bites. Then after a while, the bites didn’t cause a reaction. I would still get bit, but I wouldn’t itch or get a welt. I must have developed a tolerance for whatever they inject into you.
I did a poll on that, but it didn’t go anywhere.
I also wonder if it is species specific.
Okay, cool. You had us worried.
…then again you sound… Um… Nah, nevermind! Glad you’re safe!