Yall need to go to India. Just got back with dozens of bites after wearing long sleeve and sweatpants the whole time. Every day is a constant battle against 30-50 mosquitoes.

I went to a party near a lake and saw something that shook me to my core. Swarms of hundreds of mosquitoes just flying around as tho they were gnats. I don’t care about the eco web or whatever, scientists need to just delete these guys from existence

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Your comment was "Yall need to go to India" followed by five sentences listing reasons why we very much shouldn't go to India

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Haha. It will put your mosquito problem into a different perspective, thats all I’m saying.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Vitamin B-12 tablets will help there. I grew up in a highly tick, flea, chigger, and mosquito infested area. My parents shoved B-12 tablets down our throats as soon as it started to get warm every year. We almost never go bitten, as long as we kept taking the daily tablet.

You'll sweat it out, and B-12 is the smell you have associated with fresh baked bread. The tablets smell like a commercial bakery. Sweating it out gives your skin a slight bitter oder, and masks the smell of your blood.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Might try it, thanks for the heads up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Every time someone describes that kinda thing I get a sudden urge to get one of those electric tennis racquet things and carry it with me 24/7 in case I come across a swarm like that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

We do have them but every generation of mosquitoes seems better at avoiding them. I swear as soon as I whip the bat out the mosquito disappears.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Man are those things satisfying. I get so excited when I find bugs flying around in the house now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

There are genuine proposals to eradicate (some species of) mosquitos with wacky gene editing techniques.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, this is basically most of northern Canada in May/June as well. Also add black flies to the mix, which take small, anesthetized chunks out of you to make you bleed so that they can lick the blood off your skin... sometimes in clouds so thick, you have no choice but to just let it happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

People who say mosquitoes are the worst insects have never encountered black flies. I completely avoid going north in May and June because of those fuckers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wtf.. I have had a horsefly bite before which I think is similar and that shit actually hurts. I would take mosquitoes over that any day..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Horseflies are big and they hurt! Black flies are small and completely silent and hurt only afterwards. They also keep bleeding and bleeding… No bueno.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Awesome now I have more flies to be afraid of!