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A terrible and terrifying thought just occurred to me

ASHES

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Every time I slap a mosquito, or you do, and it is killed, we are contributing to the natural selection of mosquitoes with a better ability to bite a host without detection. They are already quite good, maybe 50% success (better than a cheetah) in my experience, with adaptations for a light touch on landing, and a sharp proboscis that quickly pierces the skin and injects an anti-irritant. In a few hundred-thousand more years, we'll have swarms of somatically invisible mosquitoes. I am glad I will not be around then, but please, think of the children, and think twice before you slap.

Happy camping.
 
Just relax and let them suck your blood……..
 
ASHES said:
Every time I slap a mosquito, or you do, and it is killed, we are contributing to the natural selection of mosquitoes with a better ability to bite a host without detection. They are already quite good, maybe 50% success (better than a cheetah) in my experience, with adaptations for a light touch on landing, and a sharp proboscis that quickly pierces the skin and injects an anti-irritant. In a few hundred-thousand more years, we'll have swarms of somatically invisible mosquitoes. I am glad I will not be around then, but please, think of the children, and think twice before you slap.

Happy camping.
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I think it's physically impossible to not slap a mosquito that has landed on you.
Those stories of mosquitoes killing people in the Arctic? Actually those people slapped themselves to death.
 
reinaert said:
But chickens still don't have fangs.
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They do sometimes grow teeth, I think I remember seeing a picture. If that takes hold, that is almost as equally terrifying.
 
ASHES said:
Every time I slap a mosquito, or you do, and it is killed, we are contributing to the natural selection of mosquitoes with a better ability to bite a host without detection. They are already quite good, maybe 50% success (better than a cheetah) in my experience, with adaptations for a light touch on landing, and a sharp proboscis that quickly pierces the skin and injects an anti-irritant. In a few hundred-thousand more years, we'll have swarms of somatically invisible mosquitoes. I am glad I will not be around then, but please, think of the children, and think twice before you slap.

Happy camping.
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Seriously, I've had good luck with the rechargeable Thermacells. The ones with the little butane bottles and little blue pads were good too,but more of a pain to deal with. At one time, we would have 3 or 4 going around the campsite, and the evening became a continuous chore of putting new pads in them as they were used up. Then, almost invariably we- meaning me,as the last dog to die- would forget to turn them off for the night, and all the butane would be gone by morning.
 
1. The slapping has been happening for a long time.

2. The real adaptation would be a numbing agent that does not then give rise to itching, because it's the later itching that's the real issue.
 
ASHES said:
Every time I slap a mosquito, or you do, and it is killed, we are contributing to the natural selection of mosquitoes with a better ability to bite a host without detection. They are already quite good, maybe 50% success (better than a cheetah) in my experience, with adaptations for a light touch on landing, and a sharp proboscis that quickly pierces the skin and injects an anti-irritant. In a few hundred-thousand more years, we'll have swarms of somatically invisible mosquitoes. I am glad I will not be around then, but please, think of the children, and think twice before you slap.

Happy camping.
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We don't have mosquitoes in my part of town. I gave them your home address in the spring.

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ASHES said:
Every time I slap a mosquito, or you do, and it is killed, we are contributing to the natural selection of mosquitoes with a better ability to bite a host without detection. They are already quite good, maybe 50% success (better than a cheetah) in my experience, with adaptations for a light touch on landing, and a sharp proboscis that quickly pierces the skin and injects an anti-irritant. In a few hundred-thousand more years, we'll have swarms of somatically invisible mosquitoes. I am glad I will not be around then, but please, think of the children, and think twice before you slap.

Happy camping.
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SHIT!

Now I'll never get to sleep tonight.

Wait.

We don't have mosquitoes in the Lower Mainland.
 
Mr Person said:
1. The slapping has been happening for a long time.

2. The real adaptation would be a numbing agent that does not then give rise to itching, because it's the later itching that's the real issue.
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It's an anti-coagulant not a numbing agent. The itch is the body's reaction to a foreign substance.

They hunt by detecting CO2. So just stop breathing.
 
Allan said:
Fun fact: mosquitoes have killed about half the people who've ever lived on the planet.
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That is fun. Although it gives them too much credit I think. If they had drunk enough blood from each individual to kill them, and that vampiric action led to the deaths of half the people who've ever lived, then it would be absolutely the most terrifying thought. But, usually they're just the taxi cab for the real danger, which is a much better bedtime thought imo.
 
ASHES said:
I just killed 3 while reading this post.

Shit.
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My home province is mosquito heaven. Lots of lakes and swamps.

Komarno, Manitoba even has the world's largest mosquito statue.

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By the time we're all long dead they'll be the size of chickens and we'll be able to shoot the sons-of-bitches.
 
I don't care what food chains they're vital to.

I don't like being at the bottom of it.
 
humbolt said:
A good mosquito is a dead mosquito. We also adapt. That’s why our little toes are disappearing. They’re useless for killing mosquitoes.
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I hate killing them after they've finished a meal on me. Messy.
 
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