This year a new breed of mosquito has settled in the area and they are literally driving me insane. I don’t even care if I’m bitten, but they don’t just bite, oh no, that would be too possible to deal with. They buzz and whine and whir around my head for hours. They are too close to see to swat them. They fly circles over me when I try to sleep. After I manage to kill one, another shows up. I try to tell myself they aren’t real, but they are.
I hate each and every one of you miserable creatures with the white-hot intensity of a hundred billion suns and even though death is too good for you, I magnanimously wish it upon you.
I hear ya. It’s late October, and here in the midwest the flying critters are finally going away. Do you live in a place that has no winter? If so, you might consider moving to a place that freezes real good every year. It has drawbacks, but the lack of mosquitos isn’t one of them.
No, then they win!
I assume you mean that the little fuckers are gone while it’s freezing real good. 'cause they sure are voracious anytime it’s not well frozen around here.
(reporting in from the frozen wastes north of the 49th)
A better place to go is somewhere high and dry. Denver was nearly mosquito free IIRC - just annoying flies.
Double ditto this!
In what way do mosquitoes benefit the ecosystem? What is the point of them?
“And that pretty insect there! What do your people call that?”
“We call that one aniiso’boka”
“What a lovely name! What does it mean?”
“Scratch till you bleed.”
- from a novel set in Florida, that I lived in and hated! …by Donald Westlake or maybe Hiassen…
Hot, dry and windy is the way to go. Even then those fuckers will find some stagnant water in a neglected, almost empty garbage can and breed.
Well, both sexes live mostly on nectar (vertebrate-blood is just something the females need to lay eggs), so I guess they pollinate flowers.
What is the point of any of us? We’re all just here to feed them, really.
This is like having tinnitus only it changes in pitch and stings.
If I die, I don’t think they’ll be able to suck my blood. It may be worth it.
I recall an Indian (dot, not feather) legend about how once all the animals got together to decide the fate of the human race. All voted to exterminate us, except for mosquitoes – “They’re so delicious!” – and so humanity was spared. Take down the mosquito-netting, hold still and be grateful.
Without them we’d not have such an efficient disease transportation system.
Mosquitoes are proof that a god exists. And he fucking hates us.
Can you blame Him?
I’m sure I’m not the only one reminded of this oldie but goodie Would Are Eco Sytem be Ok If We Extincted Mosquitos?
Mosquitos: Annoying Dopers for over 13 years!
So, where the hell can I buy this thing? The video is 3 years old now. You can’t say you wouldn’t have a market for it. A thing that burns the wings off mosquitoes? Damned right I want one!
Zap!
Chick food. Not you but I’m thinkin’ that’s part of the reason so many birds flock to the artic in summer, trillions of skeets for hungry cheeps.