#mosquitoes

[ratbugs]

they say they love insects but they hate wasps and mosquitoes

[great-and-small]

A reminder: if you were taught that mosquitoes in general are useless to the environment and could be eliminated “without consequence”, then you were taught incorrectly. People still regularly comment this silly notion on my posts with absolute confidence. Our goal is reducing risk to humans, NOT eliminating the dangerous animal altogether.

You don’t have to like irritating, gross, or dangerous animals (most people do not), but if you are ever arguing for the extinction of an entire animal species try to remember the natural world is unfathomably complex in ways none of us can predict.

[mapsontheweb]

Top killer by country: Mosquitoes vs Humans

[joequinncrave]

Ah, our poor Luke 🥺

[mindblowingscience]

In echo of Jurassic Park, mosquitoes capture entire ecosystems in their blood meals

Jurassic Park—and its never-ending sequels and spinoffs—starts with a basic premise: extracting the DNA of long-dead dinosaurs from mosquito

It turns out mosquitoes really are as voracious as Michael Crichton imagined. A new study reveals that, within a small area in central Florida, mosquitoes fed on a whopping 86 different species of animals, capturing nearly all the vertebrate biodiversity in the area. "They say Jurassic Park inspired a new generation of paleontologists, but it inspired me to study mosquitoes," said Lawrence Reeves, Ph.D., a University of Florida entomologist and senior author of the new study, published last month in Scientific Reports.

Continue Reading.

[claypigeonpottery]

a commissioned butter dish, and something I’ve never been asked for before as a subject; mosquitoes!

[dailybugfacts]

Mosquitoes are cool! :3

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Did you know that Toxorhynchites Splendens is a large species of mosquito that does not drink blood? Instead, they eat the eggs and larvae of other mosquitoes that can carry various diseases. Because of this, they have been brought across much of Eurasia and various Pacific islands as a method of control.

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