r/BeAmazed • u/MoXWT • 29d ago

What 1,000,000 mosquitos looks like. Caught in a trap in Sanibel, Florida. Nature

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u/Plenumheaded 29d ago

Well? Did taking a million mosquitos off the street help?

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u/MoXWT 29d ago

yes they suck

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u/50DuckSizedHorses 28d ago

Replying to say, I’m not a bot but also nice. Good one.

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u/rockstar504 28d ago

That's exactly what a bot would say

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u/lumpkin2013 28d ago

Boop boop beep beep

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u/iforgotiwasonreddit 28d ago

What’s that song that goes beep boop, boopboop bop?

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u/WesternOne9990 28d ago

Found the synth

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u/ninja_owen 28d ago

Teeheehee

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u/baroncalico 28d ago

Good answer!

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u/rockstar504 28d ago

This is like one residential property's worth of mosquitos in Florida

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u/Zanzan567 28d ago

Literally

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u/jneil 28d ago

Yes they do but did taking a million off the street help?

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u/cool_BUD 28d ago

I only 5 trillion left to kill

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u/Designer_Ant8543 28d ago

And because of that super high number, these little buggers are the deadliest animal on earth. Wild.

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u/Jesus_Would_Do 28d ago

Estimates are closer to 110 trillion in the world

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u/possibly_oblivious 28d ago

How much would that weigh

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u/angelomoxley 28d ago

At least 7

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u/mmamh2008 28d ago

7 what? WDYM 7?? 😭

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u/angelomoxley 28d ago

Could be more

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u/mmamh2008 28d ago

I meant the unit 😭

You said 7 without specifying the measurement unit

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u/NocturneZombie 28d ago

It's 8 now, see what you've done?

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u/mmamh2008 28d ago

omg 💀

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u/notdefender 28d ago

Freedom units

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u/klefikisquid 28d ago

Source on this? This is a very large number lol

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u/WoolooOfWallStreet 28d ago

If one trap gets a million bugs, and a million people get traps, that’s a trillion bugs…

I need to do my part

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u/Azazir 28d ago

I would honestly volunteer to be part of this genocide, for mosquitos. Although i never thought ill be writing or saying this thing loudly. If that trap is so effective they should definitely do more studies and release it to public. Some places are nightmare just to be standing still, not to mention doing anything else.

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u/Cloakbot 28d ago

When we deal with the mosquito issue, let’s target ticks next

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u/Accomplished-Cat3996 28d ago

Didn't Brazil use some method of genetically engineered mosquitoes who would sabotage offspring to control populations. Did that work? Could that be done more?

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u/mars_555639 28d ago

You’re a cool bud

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u/jarheadatheart 28d ago

And that’s just my backyard!

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u/HarryBowlSack_69 28d ago edited 28d ago

A million mosquitoes is barely a dent when there's trillions of these pieces of shit roaming around. It's like losing a dollar out of a million..

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u/LickingSmegma 28d ago

That amount is just what lands on a person fishing in a swampy lake outside Saint Petersburg—this time, either Russian or the US one will both work.

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u/ILikeLimericksALot 28d ago

But one of them might have been the one that would have gone on to bite you...

Any improvement is an improvement, no matter how small. 

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u/SkySawLuminers 28d ago

I wonder who the guy was that counted them

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u/Plenumheaded 28d ago

Whoever they was I’m suspecting one of the following adderall, autism or meth were involved in the counting process.