The size of mosquitoes in rural Canada confirms this is possible. It could even require 4 of them to completely bleed a human dry.
In Finnish lapland we have mosquitoes so big that my friend takes them and dries them to make sauna stools.
God you are lucky in lapland. I have always wanted to do that, but the ones here in northern ostrobothnia dont fit trough the doors so we can use them only as patio furniture.
Sailors round these parts use the massive ancient mosquitos to navigate the ocean since they dont move in the sky
Tell me you’re from the ostrobothnia without telling me you’re from the ostrobothnia.
Yeah, we can cut steaks off them.
Especially in Manitoba, it is the provincial bird afterall
They generally don’t though, they prefer picking people up and dropping them from height on some sharp rocks, then feasting on the corpse.
Last year I had to take some parts to a pivot crew working in soybeans. I want to preface this that I used to farm and I’ve built fences next to river bottoms I’ve had to deal with some bad mosquitoes.
With that said I never have seen a mosquito outbreak like last summer fall. I took two steps into that field and was immediately covered. I have no idea how those builders could stand being out there.
I think, if they wanted to, those mosquitoes could have lifted me off the ground and flown me to their lair.
A Mississippi delta mosquito bit me in the ass through denim and underwear. The little bastards are big enough that you can see color details on their bodies.
Very interesting read, aside from the blood curdling close up of those patches of engorged ticks. Also…
At that stage, the bloodsucking arachnids are the size of a pencil tip.
That has to be one of the least precise measurements I’ve seen. Might as well say “as deep as a cup of water” or “as bright as a light”
It’s folksy knowledge, not your fancy booklearning.
Lee Kantar—moose biologist with the Maine “Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife—counts winter tick larvae, or nymphs, on a live moose calf in Maine.” - definitely not my type of job :(
This sounds like an excellent setup for a trashy horror-movie.
Oh boy, do i have a treat for you
Could be Chupacabra but mosquitos are getting the blame
Sad that the option for “Sucked To Death” in the title was not used
What an itchy way to go
I imagine it’s more of a burning sensation. Like death by a thousand cuts
Finally, a job for Will Smith!
