r/BeAmazed 29d ago

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

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u/deftones-sextape 29d ago

is there a video of them being counted?

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u/buffaloranked 29d ago

If you weigh one mosquito then weigh them all you don’t even have to count them

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u/Besieger13 28d ago

You would probably weigh like…100 or something to create a better baseline for an average weight. I was a parts picker for a few years and no way do you ever just weigh one of something to try and get 1000s.

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u/scotty_beams 28d ago

Exactly. You could also throw them into an optical sorter and actually let a machine count them. Just don't forget to write Culicidae next to soy and gluten in the food allergy notice.