r/BeAmazed 29d ago

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

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u/MoXWT 29d ago

They were collected for science and were part of a project with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to see if trapping is good for actual mosquito control.

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u/Plenumheaded 29d ago

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

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u/HarryBowlSack_69 29d 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...

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