• Winter_Oven@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    Ya know, I don’t really mind the blood sucking part of mosquitoes. I don’t like it, but that’s their thing, so can’t complain about that.

    It’s the dang diseases and the itch from hell that comes with it. Why can’t they just suck blood in peace?

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      16 hours ago

      It’s a blood thinner. That itch comes because we are allergic to the blood thinner they inject so they can suck more easily.

      Some people claim to not get bitten by mosquitoes ever. That’s false, they are simply not allergic to the blood thinner and nothing shows up after the mosquitoes leave, so they don’t think they were bitten.

    • Schmuppes@lemmy.today
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      23 hours ago

      I just returned from three weeks of mostly tent camping. Those assholes wouldn’t even let me close the tent door in the morning before landing on my legs.