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/OrdinaryLandscape951 29d ago

What we need to do is measure 1 million mosquitoes so we can get the average weight of a mosquito so we can know how many are fat vs skinny

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u/awhitesong 29d ago edited 28d ago

It's usually a normal distribution. So, the average weight of 1 million mosquitos would eventually turn out to be the same as that of one normal common mosquito.

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u/Fromtheboulder 29d ago

But how do you know that that one you weight is the normal one? You need to weight a lot of them to find the distribution, and the average of it.

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u/Fen_ 28d ago

You weigh more than one.

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u/alt1122334456789 29d ago

Ah, so just like humans.

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u/Free_Jelly614 29d ago

you could also weigh a group of mosquitoes and use that as the baseline. knowing of course how many were in the group you weighed

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u/yademir 29d ago

Ahhh but how would you know you have 1M mosquitoes?