TheRationalLion
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Oct 29, 2017 10:21 PM
TheRationalLion
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Facetaint
Yes. Fucking die!
whatupmyknitters
wasps too. daytime highs are bouncing back and forth between 80s and 30s (plus rain and snow) here, and yet the wasps are still THRIVING.
SmallRedAssBaboon
My favorite part of the cold. Death to all insects!
Cebrail
+10000 I hate getting mosquito-stings, such a god damn pointless pain, not even the whole "Body telling you something's wrong", just crap!
OuthouseAficionado
RaventsTrinity
Not here in Miami. They get clean living year round.
IIIHalezIII
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AnAccountToPostThis
[Cries in floridian]
mandaspandapants
https://www.thoughtco.com/where-do-mosquitoes-go-in-winter-1968304 Certain mosquitoes can survive the winter in the larval and pupal stage.
mkyner
Well, I guess I'm moving to Iceland.
P0G0THECL0WN
I saved a spider today, he was curled in a ball on my patio, now he's warm in a plastic bag, he looks mean tho with crazy colors
slynnchef
Should leave him there till summer, then release him. If he dies, he dies.
Smayds
Get us a photo!
Yamirou
Winters are so warm in Italy that these assholes are still flying around during it : (
BobTerwilliger
I wish I could die every winter.
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BobTerwilliger
Yeah but then you gotta wake up and that’s just terrible.
nousernamesavailable
I don't even feel their bites. People always have to tell me I'm being sucked dry
admiralcrackbar
That's because they inject you with a numbing agent when they bite. You can't feel it because you aren't supposed to feel it.
Imustntrunaway
I kill them during summer. Wish there was a way to take the fight to them over the winter. Great gig over all, doing gods work feels like.
thegreatalan
OneSlaadTwoSlaadRedSlaadBlueSlaad
Yeah fuck them and their hymns.
inzane
Winter doesn't kill them where I live, it just makes them more resourceful and thus stronger when summer arrives.
Kitdivine
I live in Hawaii they actually do quite well in the winter here. =O
aselleus
I had my car window open like half an inch for maybe 5 min, and two managed to get into my car and bite the crap outta me. Fuck mosquitos.
TimmytalkinSTL
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Ragutis
Not in FL. Get bit putting up lights, watching the Geminids, New Year's fireworks, taking down the lights... 1/2
Ragutis
We had one good winter that really got cold and knocked them down, but that was >10 years ago. Killed the snook too, so not really a win.
EatUrShorts
It's almost November in Portugal and it's still fucking hot which is super rare, these fuckers are having the year of their lives here.
Redmancometh
It was like 45-50 degrees F in Texas today. This is the earliest it's gotten cool in a loooong time
skskskskkskskks
Singapore here, mozzies all day every day. During the “winter” it just rains more— which means more breeding places.
thegreatalan
rip from florida, we have mosquitos, and mosquitos, and mosquitoes, and mosquitoes, did i say mosquitoes cause i still have 4 characters3210
OaksParcel
It's almost November here in Alberta, too.
Toastfrog
Holy shit what the odds! its almost November here in New Zealand too!
EatUrShorts
I knew this would happen the moment I read what I posted xD
IWishIWasYuriG
KungfuMagnet
CarpeMe
Hate to break it to you, but most mosquitoes hibernate. They find a hole and wait for warmer weather to come back and suck you dry.
JackDance
But not the ones that want to hybernate in any place of my house... *slap*
IMightBeIntoSomeWeirdStuff
pie4sale
I learned something new today. +1
ensensu
That’s why we have to seal up all of the holes they like to hide in. Maybe take away their ability to make holes.
glassweaver
We could just build a wall.
SharkyMcSnarkface
Now we know of their top secret winter survival strategy! Nuke the ground!
WhereWhoWhyHow
So except for the hibernation part, mosquitos are similar to your mom?
hungitalianohwaitthisisntgrindr
WOW! i thought they went extinct every year and magically reappeared in the summer.
stormegedendarklordofall
I just thought they would lay some eggs somewhere and when spring came round the new generation would come fuck us up
LivingDecomposition
Well the eggs would probably freeze to death, which I'm okay with
OniOfWildPlaces
Mosquito eggs are depressingly resilient. If i remember right their eggs can remain dormant and go through large temp changes, and hatch
RistaSRB
DouchbagsCanBeNice
Sort of, they naturally seek warmth for blood location, but most males don't, so males don't survive as much
drakewarnock
Yeah but the males aren't the ones who suck blood, if I remember correctly.
IamJustinSane
Blood digging whores.
DangerousNoodle
Always wondered how they returned all blood thirsty.
Foagie
Sounds like my ex
Scaramucci
Doesn't sound like my ex, she wouldn't suck anything.
Onidino
Modestdeath
my thoughts exactly
FilthyRapscallions
I also feel this way about yard work. One perk of winter, no more damn grass to cut.
dohcohv
I live in the desert, no grass all year!
FilthyRapscallions
I can both support this and say that kind of sounds a bit depressing. Love my yard, hate the work.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Still have to shovel snow though. And constantly clear off the damn car.
FilthyRapscallions
True, but I’ve solved this with a snowblower, ATV plow and if all else fails, a skid steer.
TheRationalLion
I hate mowing almost as much as I hate mosquitoes!
FilthyRapscallions
Pretty sure I hate mowing more. God forbid I try and go over 5 days in the growing peak.
kootiepatra
I just mowed today for (hopefully) the last time this year.
FilthyRapscallions
Congrats are in order. See you next year, you needy bastard.
kootiepatra
Well, I'll probably get to scrape leaves off of it a couple of times yet so it actually comes back next year, but...
Churtothechur
No for Australians! I got wasted by them cunts a few years ago. Had a reaction and couldn't stop scratching. Got infected. Had to
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SadHedgehog
As a brit, I don't think I've ever seen one :/
number2commenter
2/ amputate both my arms. I'm typing this with my penis.
MadmanApex
lolololol
JohnathonPizza
welcome to Australia; where the cuntbags keep coming back.
DouchbagsCanBeNice
I got wasted from humans, mosquitos aren't as much of a problem.
Shuksmaster
Spray some windex on it
aquaqax
lol wtf, really? i've not heard that one before haha!
Shuksmaster
Yeah it works. Its got ammonia in it wich releives the itch
IMakeBooze
I understand that reference
RalphieisaGoodDog
Or Texas.. They. Never. Die.
Indifferentpenguinisnotimpressed
Currently listening to one of the cunts flying around my room! Magically disappears when I turn the fucking light on though!!!!
Churtothechur
Have a hit shower and scrap the wounds "clean" or fresh, put manuka honey cream and wrapped them up. Healed in a few days
Churtothechur
Worst shower of my life.
Fatdicksinmybutt
A few days is what it takes for a normal mosquito bite to go away
ThisIsGod
If you look closely, you can tell he's trying to communicate with us. Poor lil feller.
TheRussMartinShow
urethralcarnage
Yeah mate they're fucking feral in qld right now, I've already been eaten alive and the aeroguard doesn't even help
PostmodernSemanticQuagmire
Had so much rain in Brissie it's fucked right now.
MrMeowzerz
English motherfucker! Do you speak it?
Churtothechur
Mobile phone and dyslexic, so no I don't speak it very well
mkyner
Dude, he said Australia.
IMightBeIntoSomeWeirdStuff
Mosquitoes are pretty high on my list of the worst things ever, at least in all of human history
Mandarinduck
You forgot bedbugs. What is the reason that they even exist? Fucking waste of oxygen.
BarretXIII
1st on my list. Just above humans. Cats at the bottom. Dogs... not on it.
deltaquadrant
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedie!
CoalBee
Chiggers also are on my list. Fuck those fuckers. I had them bad at my back patio. Always fucked up my legs
BlackTrashTiger
Someone at my work said "Don't kill mosquitoes, they kill spiders!" And I said "What?"
ME2G
Drug resistant fleas
aboxofcheezits
What about infosquitoes?
RobotChimera
You're going to love botflies, then.
TwinWings05
Mosquitos are the only invests that can reproduce cocoa. We won't have dark chocolate if they become extint.
TwinWings05
Incect*
DamageControl89
Insense**
Cereaza
Mosquitos are one of the few things ecologists and scientists are totally cool killing. "They are not part of any food chain. Fuck them."
PokoOnoandtheJamJams
Real question: could we wipe mosquitos out of existence with no other negative impacts?
Sezypatezy
Stupid flying disease needles
biggwhytey
God: "How about a forced game of Russian Roulette with disease every time they go camping?"
quicksilver1
and their season is coming up in Australia D:
IIIHalezIII
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Cheomesh
Especially when they fucking bite my hands :(
Pieala
Big roaches, flies, skeeters.
Lurkenstine
No SPIDERS?!?! I honestly have nightmares of spiders on the reg.
Pieala
Nope, I grew up in west Texas in my early years where they have huge spiders (tarantulas). I just adapted, they don't go after you.
oceanskysforever
There are these horrible mosquito-like bugs in my country like horse flies that bite the shit out of your feet and ankles so that you 1/2
oceanskysforever
Itch and can’t walk properly for days, usually up to 2 weeks, and after experiencing this I decided immediately God can’t exist bc such 2/2
oceanskysforever
Oops 2/3 miserable creatures have no purpose to exist, there is no divine creation, it’s all BS and means nothing and FUCK THOSE BUGS 3/3
cspinasdf
To bad there isn't a vaccine to sterilize the female mosquitos(The ones who bite)
jmeyers1983
Science people: what would the ecosystem lose if mosquitos went extinct?
itzyaboii
No animal relies on mosquitoes to survive. Their sole purpose is literally "human deterrent"
selfmemeicating
As a marine biologist (close to the right science but not really), my guess is bats need them the most.
uffda0
I’ve always wondered this
biggwhytey
If mosquitoes didn't have a valuable spot in the food chain, I'd happily support their man-made extinction.
ColorblindMonk
Well, today's your lucky day.
biggwhytey
Birds depend on them for food, Smarty McFly.
ColorblindMonk
No they don't. It's like if you tried to live solely off of sunflower seeds. They provide so little nutrition, anything can substitute them.
biggwhytey
Removing a large food source will cause a shift to another that can cause another extinction bc the ecosystem isn't prepared. Dominoes fall.
whatupmyknitters
even environmental scientists and biologists are have a hard time finding reason to keep them around.
OrangeFlavours
Yep. Hate snakes? Hate frogs? Hate worms? Doesn't matter, they're useful. Hate mosquitoes? Fuck em all to death.
missbirdie
But even if they tried to get rid of them all, could they?
mamboskii
They've designed a male mosquito who's offspring have a 90 something % chance of being male. If it got out they'd eventually be wiped out
whatupmyknitters
idk, it sounds like the gene thing they're working on will be really effective, but i guess they'd have to be able to find every mosquito --
whatupmyknitters
--colony to really eradicate ALL mosquitoes on the planet. that part doesn't seem feasible.
OrangeFlavours
Well, isn't the theory that you do something to a large population of them, then release them to other populations, like a plague?
DouchbagsCanBeNice
No, humans are the worst things in human history
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DamageControl89
Snails? Fuckwhat?!
TheFastpaws
I think we should kill them all.
Jokeykilla
We gotta kill all the mosquitos so we can be #1
DouchbagsCanBeNice
Nah nigga, the number one killer is humans
Martecles
Yeah alcohol, fat, sugar, and Nazis kill plenty. If we can include indirect death, such as plague via mosquito, Mcdonalds counts too.
merlinious
Still has nothing on malaria. Malaria is historically the #1 cause of death in humans
Martecles
Yeah, even just on terms of directly contracted diseases, that probably still is the winner.
IAlsoWantToBeFunny
Do you also have a graphic?
ShreddingtoNarnia
Freshwater snails itself will not kill humans but inturn we are affected by schistosoma, a parasitic worm that infects snail and its eggs.
ShreddingtoNarnia
Source(I just google that shit)
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It already states that in parentheses
oyasumipenispunk
I guess that person didnt parantheSEEs it
SpikyNutz
Clearly you don't live in an area that has deer flies.
IMightBeIntoSomeWeirdStuff
I mean, I've encountered horse flies many times
DamageControl89
Equine insects
uffda0
Idk deer flies don’t bite you thru clothing and mosquitoes can some how bite thru my jeans
celestedrake
For me I have something personal with ticks. They've tried to kill me four times at least, and have given lasting defects...
IMightBeIntoSomeWeirdStuff
I've taken at least 6 ticks of my dog this past week, lil assholes
TheMovieGalaxyQuest
Would you say they... tick you off?
celestedrake
Never. I am too pedantic and can't get angry. Good pun, though, +1.
VoyagerWasTheBestTrek
Ive got 2 acres of woods around my new house in ct, i figure it when , not if, i get lyme. Went 33 years never bit by a tick, 3 this summer
biggwhytey
Well, when you do get lyme, put yt yn the coconut.
celestedrake
Um, pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean?
biggwhytey
Put the lyme in the coconut.
celestedrake
Lucky. I got lymes when I was 10, 12, and 18...and Babesia when I was 11. First time for lymes was the worst because my parents did not (1)
celestedrake
believe I was sick until they asked me to smile and I couldn't. I had to get an IV to my heart for the summer and I am still not free of(2)
celestedrake
the symptoms. Though I have heard of worse cases (my symptoms: slight bell's palsey + similar effects on whole left side, shaking, a lisp(3)
ValinorTartanis
Fun fact, mosquitos are the #1 killer of humans in the world, because of the illnesses they spread!
SirDistic
Malaria may have killed half of all the people that ever lived. Up to 54 Billion people.
DouchbagsCanBeNice
No it is definitely other himans
DouchbagsCanBeNice
Good, see, I'm putting out retarded posts to get as many down votes as possible
GeorgieLeech
It definitely isn't. Malaria has been a thing for far too long.
QuackQuackAttack
Even in war it is still disease.
JayEnfield
I'm not sure if that should count though, since that's a tag-team effort between multiple organisms to kill us.
SBSP129
Even better reason they need to die!
Sevaceri
if it helps, we have started using Mosquitoes to kill Mosquitoes. for the purpose of reducing disease.
ThePastmaster
They're also an important pollinator and exterminating them will lead to mass loss in both human and animal life due to food declines.
notashill
I don't think mosquitos have much to do with flowers
ThePastmaster
Only female mosquitoes sting for blood and that is only to produce eggs. Otherwise they all eat various nectars.
ArtOzz
I got scars on both arms and my stomach from those cunts. Rot in a cold and frosty hell!
DouchbagsCanBeNice
I hope you are taking about humans, cause that's what I got my scars from
Maleae
I feel you, they think I’m delicious and I’m allergic to them too. Suuuuuper itchy
ArtOzz
Im fit AF. I wouldnt be surprised if they do think Im delicious.
missbirdie
I read this as both my stomachs. Lol
Okebel
Put some toothpaste on the bite to stop from itching.
ArtOzz
I will forget this by summer. The coldest winter in 5 years, Im told, is coming.
Churtothechur
I have scars 10cm above my ankle. The only spot they found through my sock
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
How did you get scars, are you allergic? Because my 1.5-year-old daughter has some bites and they're not clearing up. They're starting to /1
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
look kind of like scars. I've never seen that reaction to a mosquito bite. We'll take her in to the Dr this week, but just wondering if /2
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
what you have is similar. I hope they don't scar, a few are right on her little face. :( /3
wherearetheavos
Put Calamine lotion on them. I don't get bitten often - but when I do I actually bruise around the bite too :( some ppl are allergic.
MrAlwaysRight
Please report back because I get scars from bug bites in general no matter what I do. All over my legs are little brown spots fromitchyareas
admiralcrackbar
He's got scars from incessantly scratching them.
ArtOzz
THANK YOU. I thought that point was fairly obvious. Apperently not.
admiralcrackbar
I know cos I've got scars too. Fuckers.
Assfullofbread
Scars from mosquito bites?
ThisIsGod
He's a weak specimen.
locktwo
From the itching, pretty sure its not from the bites.
40yoLesbian
probably allergic, i also have some scars from bites
ArtOzz
The bites cause the itching. The scratching caused the scars. Or you could just say I got scars from the bloody bites.
ladymondegreen
Not OP, but I'm allergic to mosquito bites. They swell so much, they rupture nearby capillaries, and take weeks to go away.
MarshmalineTheCampfireQueen
Same. I used to be so desperate for the itching to stop I'd burn the marks
rawrtigerblood
Yes! This is me! My legs our just covered w fading dark bug bites :(((
cardinal29
Me, too. I find it helps to take allergy meds all summer, then double up on Zyrtec and Claritin for a few days if I have a really bad one.
ladymondegreen
Allergy meds make me either sleepy or hyper (if they're non-drowsy). I use a mosquito net over my bed, it's cut my bites down by a solid 70%
mrbossavage
Cool
lysithean
I once made the mistake of walking in tall grass at midnight. I got around 10 mosquito bites, so I was scratching them like crazy.
lysithean
They ended up scarring, and 3 years later the scars are still visible.
cannedbat
10 mosquito bites... just 10... let me tell you a thing or two about Canadian summers.
Assfullofbread
Lol i was gonna say that, living in Canada if I only get 10 in a day it's because I'm covered in bug spray
cannedbat
I've started sleeping outside when I camp, in a hammock without any proper bug netting. the no-see-ums were the real threat this year though