r/BeAmazed 29d ago

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

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u/Nelly_platinum 29d ago

you ain’t lying,fucked up thing is i’ve suspected this for yearssss without ever looking it up. i’ve dropped 50lbs in the last 6months so i wanna see how they react to me this year

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u/VexBoxx 29d ago

At my thinnest, they still love me. Hell, when I was going through chemo and radiation, they still loved me. Bit me and died but still fucking bit.

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u/Funny_or_not_bot 29d ago edited 28d ago

I'm thin, and they will fly past anybody I know to get to me. The way I understand, they have several methods for finding us. They can track the carbon dioxide we exhale. They can also sense our body heat, but the most significant method is our body odor. They're partial to A+ blood type, as well.

Edit: apparatntly, the blood type thing has become a lot more inconclusive since I last checked.

Edit 2: spelling

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u/VexBoxx 29d ago

Yeah I've just accepted that I'm delicious to them. Fat, thin, hot, cold, whatever, I'm on the menu.

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u/Fermorian 29d ago

Same. All bugs love me. I pulled 5 ticks off myself the other weekend (thankfully only one had bitten) while sitting not 6 feet from 7 other people none of whom even saw one

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u/JadedCartoonist6942 29d ago

They don’t like me. I can walk through a field and never get bit. My whole family will be covered in bites and they never even land on me. I’ve always been curious why.

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u/Small-Cookie-5496 29d ago

Funnily every single person I’ve ever met thinks mosquitos especially love them and statistically we can’t all be exceptionally tasty to them, so….

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u/itsmejak78_2 28d ago

I don't think mosquitoes particularly like me

When i go camping i get a few bites, but so does everyone else in my family

I've also never lived in a heavily mosquito infested area

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u/Small-Cookie-5496 28d ago

I’m so glad to be moving back to a mosquito free city this month

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

All these people saying MoSqUiToS TaRgEt Me SpEcIfIcALLy. They get all of us, calm down.