As much as I hate those animals, I still think this is a very interesting video.

If they bite you, bite back.

Disgusting creatures, and they'll be the death of the human race!

Those &$%@. This is one of the reasons self replicating nano-bots would be great, sure they can go out of control and wipe life from the planet, but imagine squadron upon squadron of tiny fighter planes patrolling your house and AMRAAM'ing their sorry asses to oblivion.

You wanna bite, don't you? You wanna disturb our boss while he's trying to sleep? Bite THIS, sucker!

A man can dream...

Hate them with a passion and also the Canadian Black Fly, I'm allergic to their bites and when I get bitten the area swells up badly and I usually have to seek medical attention.

To make a mossie trap, cut the top off a cola bottle so that it will fit in the bottom section like a funnel, heat up some water and dissolve about a cup full of brown sugar in it, pour it in to the bottom of the container you just made and then wait until it has cooled, then add some yeast to the mixture and leave it on the window ledge or patio or where ever you want to attract the mosquitos to. The mosquito looks for carbon dioxide to home into it's target and this little trap will produce CO2 for a few weeks.

I use this but its efficacy seems to depend heavily on the stuff you put inside. Right now I'm using banana peels to trap flies (it's winter here, no mosquitos). They also give a good scent (until they rot).

I'm one of the fortunate people who don't welt up from mosquito bites, and I rarely even feel the bites. Of course, that's probably a symptom of some deadly incurable disease. I wonder what the consequences of eradicating the mosquito as a life form would be? How many animals survive solely by eating mosquitos? Can we do without them (the animals)?

No consequence whatsoever.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0NT9i4Qnak

I dont know but I do know that so far evolution has not selected against mosquitos yet for extinction so they must serve some purpose in nature.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/health/zika-florida-gmo-mosquito/

I want these GMO Mosquitoes released upon the earth. I hate those bugs, I was ate alive in Africa and they said that was the dry season. We kept talking about no matter how bad it was, it was better than Guadalcanal.

That and the heart breaking video of Zika victims...Just terrible, I finally understood the fear and pity people had with Polio.

Vectors for disease- some other organism finds a way to proliferate itself, maybe as a form of population control. You eliminate one, then Nature figures out another way to do it.

A mosquito has six needles

All the better to suck your blood.

Or...you are their leader.

My father was stationed in India during WWII.
He told us his Platoon hated him because his skin was so thick or tough, mosquito's couldn't penetrate it.

We didn't believe him.
One day, when he was still alive, the family was sitting in the breezeway, and we watched as one mosquito after another landed on his arms and neck, and tried to stick him....they all finally gave up. One of the same ones flew over and bit my mother.

And they love to bite me too.

Luck of the draw.

He's a witch! Burn him! Burn him at the stake!

That's a fascinating video. Now let's kill them all.

But, but... evolution supposedly isn't purpose driven...

Not to stray too far off topic...but reading this reminded me of Wade Hemsworth's Black Fly song that he wrote while working in the woods in North Ontario.

Someone created the cartoon to go with the song in the 90's I think...worth a chuckle.

These are much, MUCH worse than mosquitoes as far as annoyances go. I don't think they carry any diseases, but their bites sting rather than itch and usually form a small pustule. Deer flies are even worse.

Yeah, that's about what black flies are like. The worst part is you can't help but inhale a few, and they have a predilection to get stuck on whatever it is that triggers your gag reflex. They're also very good at getting trapped in sweat or heavy applications of bug repellent and itching like crazy.