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have you guys ever done that when mosquito sucks the blood and you pinch your skin so that it can't take the trunk out but the blood keeps filling it up until it explodes?
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Palpek posted:have you guys ever done that when mosquito sucks the blood and you pinch your skin so that it can't take the trunk out but the blood keeps filling it up until it explodes? 
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Jul 29, 2014 15:59
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redshirt posted:We've tried. They're tougher than the Viet Cong. THat's because we never tried forcing them all to watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G4jnaznUoQ thereby driving them to suicide
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Jul 29, 2014 16:00
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we had a frost-free winter so those fuckers are everywhere. my tips: - get a fan, meskeeters hate wind - buy some euceta cream, if you apply it once within 30 mins after a bite its gone - wear deet and make sure to rub your eyes after application it works even better that way lmao try it i swear
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Jul 29, 2014 16:03
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My mom is some kind of genetic mutant because mosquitos never bite her. She uses this to good effect when mormons and insurance guys and the like knock on her door. She goes outside and talks to them and laughs quietly to herself while the skeeters feast.
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Jul 29, 2014 16:08
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newreply.php posted:we had a frost-free winter so those fuckers are everywhere. my tips: - cleanse all swamps in nuclear fire
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Jul 29, 2014 16:10
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If mosquitoes were wiped out would the ecosystem suffer in a way that would negatively impact mankind?
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Jul 29, 2014 16:11
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mosquitos bite the poo poo out of me more than most people so i hate them a wholllle lot OP
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Jul 29, 2014 16:23
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:If mosquitoes were wiped out would the ecosystem suffer in a way that would negatively impact mankind? probably, but who cares , worth it
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Jul 29, 2014 16:23
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1gnoirents posted:probably, but who cares , worth it
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Jul 29, 2014 16:30
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i want one of those laser things that kills a zillion a second i saw it somewhere honest
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Jul 29, 2014 16:48
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:If mosquitoes were wiped out would the ecosystem suffer in a way that would negatively impact mankind? It'd collapse tons of ecosystems. Mosquitoes are a major part of the food chain for many of them. They are annoying dicks but tons of animals eat them.
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Jul 29, 2014 16:50
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Internet Kraken posted:It'd collapse tons of ecosystems. Mosquitoes are a major part of the food chain for many of them. They are annoying dicks but tons of animals eat them. i feel like i've heard repeatedly that it'd be okay to get rid of them. in this very thread even
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Jul 29, 2014 16:51
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Fandyien posted:i feel like i've heard repeatedly that it'd be okay to get rid of them. in this very thread even yep http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
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Jul 29, 2014 17:00
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So how can I help the fight? I want to wipe those fuckers out for good.
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Jul 29, 2014 18:31
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:So how can I help the fight? I want to wipe those fuckers out for good. Drinking one half cup of bleach a day renders your blood unsuitable for mosquitos, depriving them of the blood meal they need to reproduce.
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Jul 29, 2014 18:40
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guys until you've had to do outdoor work in northern ontario you can gently caress off with any bug stories only when you understand that having a blackfly lodged directly in your eye is 'just the way things also are' do you become truly Bugged
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Jul 29, 2014 18:50
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SHOTGUN REGULAR posted:guys until you've had to do outdoor work in northern ontario you can gently caress off with any bug stories I've worked in Malaria-endmic regions of Africa. So you can gently caress off with your bug stories too.
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Jul 29, 2014 18:51
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SHOTGUN REGULAR posted:guys until you've had to do outdoor work in northern ontario you can gently caress off with any bug stories Are blackflies the ones where their larval stage is anchored to a rock in some stream somewhere and when they're mature they shoot out of the water in a loving air bubble and just burst forth immediately hungry for blood?
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Jul 29, 2014 19:21
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Monkey Fracas posted:Are SA goons the ones where their larval stage is anchored to a rock in some stream somewhere and when they're mature they shoot out of the water in a loving air bubble and just burst forth immediately hungry for blood?
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Jul 29, 2014 19:29
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hohum posted:I've worked in Malaria-endmic regions of Africa. So you can gently caress off with your bug stories too. yheah your bugs can kill you but if there's as many as there are in northern ontario I'd be suprised. we're talking tens of thousands of square kilometres composed of nothing but lakes and swamps. the only thing for them to eat is a moose or you. you're being constantly swarmed by blackflies, noseeums, mosquitoes, a couple dozen deer and horseflies. also you left your lunch by the road and a raven ate it.
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Jul 29, 2014 19:47
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SHOTGUN REGULAR posted:yheah your bugs can kill you but if there's as many as there are in northern ontario I'd be suprised. we're talking tens of thousands of square kilometres composed of nothing but lakes and swamps. And that's the difference between rich countries that can afford to do mosquito fogging on massive scale and poor countries where standing water can be a death trap.
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Jul 29, 2014 19:53
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hohum posted:And that's the difference between rich countries that can afford to do mosquito fogging on massive scale and poor countries where standing water can be a death trap. yes they're fogging northern ontario. an area the size of france and germany put together with the total population of rhode island you lunatic
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Jul 29, 2014 19:59
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Pftt. You don't know mosquitos until you live in tropical mexican town where you can't be 5 minutes outside at night without a gigantic swarm trying to feast on you.
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Jul 29, 2014 20:00
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It's a good thing that mosquitos aren't sentient and are just basically a very large form of disease. If they could realize that the jig was up and that humanity had, in fact, determined that their entire species would not be needed or missed on the whole of planet, for any animal, they would form attack squads and we would not survive.
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Jul 29, 2014 20:01
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'Twas early in the spring when I decide to go For to work up in the woods in north on-tar-i-o The unemployment office said they'd send me through To the little abi-tibi with the survey crew And the black flies, the little black flies Always the black fly, no matter where you go I'll die with the black fly a-picking my bones In north on-tar-i-o-i-o, in north on-tar-i-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLBXb1kgMo
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Jul 29, 2014 20:05
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SHOTGUN REGULAR posted:guys until you've had to do outdoor work in northern ontario you can gently caress off with any bug stories I did portage maintenance in the kawartha area for a summer. The silent hum of mosquitos waking up in the distance as the sun sets can be unsettling.
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Jul 29, 2014 20:17
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Sixfools posted:I did portage maintenance in the kawartha area for a summer. The silent hum of mosquitos waking up in the distance as the sun sets can be unsettling. and that's not even really northern ontario. it's pretty extremely south geographically. for context it takes abotu 30 hours to drive from my home in toronto to where I was working. and even that only takes you 2/3ds of the way north to hudson bay ontario is really loving big and so many bugs
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Jul 29, 2014 20:19
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Don't forget chiggers. gently caress those guys.
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Jul 29, 2014 20:22
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Chiggers are the biggest scourge. I am allergic to them too, so when it's chigger season I inevitably get massive red welts that ooze and itch incessantly and take months to go away. I dodged it this year but they are def. worse than mosquitos.
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Jul 29, 2014 20:25
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hemophilia posted:Chiggers are the biggest scourge. I am allergic to them too, so when it's chigger season I inevitably get massive red welts that ooze and itch incessantly and take months to go away. I dodged it this year but they are def. worse than mosquitos. Me too! Any of course they go for the crotch/armpits/under my bra band/etc.
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Jul 29, 2014 20:29
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:If mosquitoes were wiped out would the ecosystem suffer in a way that would negatively impact mankind? The Grand Design would ensure a quick replacement, like, say, aggressively carnivorous giant flying cockroaches with poisonous stingers. Balance of nature and whatnot. Also: War, plague, famine, heart disease, cigarettes, road trauma: six very effective killers of human beings. But they're all amateurs when their records are compared to the number one mass murderer of all time. The humble mosquito, and the deadly diseases it carries, is estimated to have been responsible for as many as 46 billion deaths over the history of our species. That staggering number is even more frightening in context - it means that mosquitoes are alleged to have killed more than half the humans that ever lived. http://www.gizmag.com/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-aegypti-mosquito/20668/
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Jul 29, 2014 20:50
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SunAndSpring posted:Why have we not committed genocide upon mosquitoes? They bring nothing but disease and itchy bites. Do we not have the technology to kill them all off or what? the mosquito war already happened and we lost
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Jul 29, 2014 21:11
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Libelous Slander posted:yeah benadryl is gonna totally help me out when i've got Chronic encephalomyelitis, which may be progressive, can involve cognitive impairment, weakness in the legs, awkward gait, facial palsy, bladder problems, vertigo, and back pain Well drat, if you're going to be such a massive crybaby, just stay in your goon lair and order delivery. 
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Jul 29, 2014 21:22
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SHOTGUN REGULAR posted:yes they're fogging northern ontario. an area the size of france and germany put together with the total population of rhode island How far do you think mosquitoes fly to feed exactly? Here's a hint: it certainly isn't an area the size of Germany and France combined. Which is why fogging is so effective in preventing the spread of mosquito-born disease in populated places. If you want to go wandering around in the wilderness of northern Ontario and you happen to get Malaria, well that's on you. hohum fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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This study is hilariously dumb. It doesn't actually explain what would fill the niche of mosquitoes in basically every example it provides. The researchers just say "something would", which is stupid. Their are hundreds of different ecosystems which mosquitoes are a part of, and abruptly removing them would have effects we can't possibly predict. They are quite literally hoping that things will just turn out of fine based on a handful examples, which isn't a very good case for removing an entire loving species. Ecosystems don't fix themselves automatically and quickly. Its entirely possible for an ecosystem to collapse when even a single species is removed, let alone one as ubiquitous as mosquitoes. But hey, lets pretend that mosquitoes don't serve any purpose and killing them all would be just fine. There's a problem with this too; mosquitoes are really hard to kill. They can breed pretty much anywhere that has standing water. Even something as small a flooded bottlecap can be a viable breeding ground for mosquitoes. They don't need much. You certainly can't eliminate every source of standing water since tons of other species use them as well. Lots of plans I've read about to eliminate mosquitoes on a large scale have backfired horribly. There are marshlands covered in huge trenches we dug out years ago to lower the amount of standing water for mosquitoes to breed in. Turns out it didn't do jack poo poo since the small amount of water the trenches held was still enough for the mosquitoes. Sephiroth_IRA posted:So how can I help the fight? I want to wipe those fuckers out for good. Don't leave standing water around your house. Anything that holds water after a storm can be used by mosquitoes to breed if you don't drain the water out of it. Stuff like buckets left out in the yard are a good example. Its a simple thing but it gets rid of breeding area used almost exclusively by mosquitoes. Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Jul 29, 2014 22:03
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hohum posted:How far do you think mosquitoes fly to feed exactly? Here's a hint: it certainly isn't an area the size of Germany and France combined. Which is why fogging is so effective in preventing the spread of mosquito-born disease in populated places. Okay well 1. they don't fog towns either 2. I was nowhere a town regardless so stop wagging your mosquito dick around and stfu
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That's not an accurate statement, but you're right about one thing. This conversation is stupid. So I tip my hat to you, sir. You've bested me with your gooniness.
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SHOTGUN REGULAR posted:yheah your bugs can kill you but if there's as many as there are in northern ontario I'd be suprised. we're talking tens of thousands of square kilometres composed of nothing but lakes and swamps. the only thing for them to eat is a moose or you. you're being constantly swarmed by blackflies, noseeums, mosquitoes, a couple dozen deer and horseflies. I'm in north western maine and it's basically the same. I work outdoors all the time and I've long since given up - I dress up as "forestnaut" now. Completely covered, head to toe, regardless of the heat. A bug net over the head is vital. I still hate ticks worse than mosquitoes though, sneaky fucks.
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