It’s an annoyance for sure but I hate using off or other deterrents. Plus I guess I am contributing to the eco system somewhat by giving them nourishment.
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I’ve been told if mosquito bites don’t itch it could mean you have a poor immune system. I for one have a thick blanket of fur and am not so bothered by them.
Pack it up folks, this one wins
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Dammit almost made me wake up my better half from laughing!
I guess you’re lucky to not live in a place with malaria and dengue.
Or chagas. Or chikungunya. Or any of a number of other aegyptus-spread diseases. A species that is not native to most of the world, is not a natural pet of most ecosystems, and which doesn’t contribute in any meaningful way to almost any ecosystem in the world.
To be fair, the Chagas vector isn’t a mosquito, it’s a big motherfucker who shits in your mouth when you’re sleeping
You’d feel differently, if you lived somewhere malaria was common.
Most people get malaria from the bite of an infective mosquito, also called a vector.
Most cases of malaria diagnosed in the U.S. are in people who have traveled to or from other countries where malaria is widespread. We call this imported malaria.
Locally acquired, mosquito-transmitted malaria is a rare event in the U.S.
They also might not have the enzyme or whatever it is that makes mosquito bites itch.
Washington DC is a malarial swamp.
The most unpopular opinion.
Take a large amount of vitamin B-12 daily. B-12 is what you may have associated with the smell of fresh baked bread. The tablets smell like a commercial bakery. You can’t overdose on B-12, you just sweat it out. Sweating it out masks the smell of your blood, and mosquitoes, ticks, chiggers, and fleas will all just kinda ignore you. Doesn’t work on bedbugs since it doesn’t mask the smell of you exhaling, which is what bedbugs use to hunt.
A large amount would be between 500-1500 mg daily depending on your size.
You are only contributing to the small subset of mosquitoes that feed on humans. And spread diseases among them.
Historically speaking, the mosquito is one of the biggest killer in human history. If not the biggest.
Smallpox might still have any one mosquito borne illness like malaria beat.
The biggest is humanity. Also, they feed on humans and spread diseases.
a truly unpopular opinion. i take it you don’t hail from inland alaska or florida.
glorious cake day to you
im one of those people who they seem to preferentially go for and the bites are so itchy. I can’t upvote except I do because I upvote everything unrelated to voting which I think are dumb. ironically not for this sub though that actually uses the voting. anyway I can’t see someone having an opinion about how much you yourself mind things. yeah so im going to downvote.
Enjoy your Dengue, Malaria, Zika, Ross River, West Nile, Barmah Forest, Chikungunya, Elephantiasis, Japanese Encephalitis, Murray Valley and/or Yellow Fever.
builds character
It does, a comic character as a good example of what not to do.
This is how I feel about bed bugs. Most humans have no reaction to bed bug bites so from everything I understand the only downside to having bed bugs is having bed bugs.
I’m not saying I don’t think bed bugs are gross and as someone who’s had them before would never wish them on anyone but the most annoying part of them is the effort required to get rid of them.
Most humans definitely have a reaction to bed bug bites.
Every source I’ve read including the quick Google search I just did says that 50-70% of humans show no reaction to bed bug bites unless the infestation reaches a certain threshold.
They’re gross
Yeah but that’s like the only real downside. The instinctual fear of bugs is really the only negative side effect of having them since most people don’t have reactions to the bites
It’s unhygienic to leave bugs shit your sheets and mattress while also leaving bug carcasses and remains of their exoskeleton.
I don’t mind þe “biting,” I mind þe allergic reaction and itchiness afterwards.
There’s got to be an upper limit where it’s unbearable without bug spray. Head to Northern Canada, go for a tromp in the bush, and find out what yours is!
as a floridian that is very… familiar… with mosquitos… are you telling me that your northern Canadian cold doesn’t do shit to them ?
well hell fire have we tried nuking them from orbit?
Nah the cold does kill them off, it’s just that the summer months are still hot and boggy. Best if both worlds.
that is one of the perks of living ‘up north’… no bugs outside in the winter.
Mosquitoes are hell in the north too. But the winter kills the sub species of mosquitoes that carry the diseases, except for maybe west nile but that’s not a huge deal. Oh yeah, and eastern equine encephalitis but that is super rare.
Or any patch of tallish grass.
