#mosquitos

[reality-detective]

An Effective Mosquito Repellent...

It's that time of year 🤔

[sunshineandlyrics]

Louis trying to sing Saturdays in peace Vs "those motherfvckers!" aka mosquitos 🦟

FITFWT Raleigh, 21 July 2023

To relive Louis telling about this moment x

[sitting-on-me-bum]

There Are No Mosquitos In Iceland - Gullfoss Waterfall

Photographer: Pierre-Selim Huard

[viejospellejos]

Holocausto mosquitero:

[welele]

Cómo comer mosquitos.

[thatsbelievable]

ATTENTION: MOSQUITOS

You’re doing a great job, mosquitos!

Please stop.

[antiqueanimals]

Common house mosquito (Culex pipiens)

The Entomologist's Text Book. Written and illustrated by John Obadiah Westwood. 1838.

Internet Archive

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Insects

Diptera. This order, known as the true flies, is made up of insects that fly using onle a single pair of wings. Members inclue fruit flies, houseflies, and mosquitos

Lepidoptera. This order is made up of butterflies and moths. It is the second largest order (behind beetles) making up 10% of all described species of living things. They have large triangular wings and a proboscis for siphoning nectar.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Because we’re ranting about biases today, one of my biggest foes is anti-parasite bias. It’s very connected to fear and moralizing of non-human organism behaviors and it’s so frustrating! These are organisms with some of the most complex life cycles out there but the idea that anyone could be interested in them for their own sake instead of from a desire to control or even eradicate them is never considered- or hell if you ARE someone who is like “hey I just think parasites are neat and maybe also not ontologically evil” people give you the same moralizing treatment. Parasites of all kinds are integral to every ecosystem but we’ve barely started figuring that out because they’re so demonized, and who knows how many have been lost while humanity crusaded against them? How many species are on the edge of being gone forever that most people will ignorantly think the world is better without?

MOOD

you know what my least favorite debate in ethics was? We had tons but this one drove me up the wall

"Should we eradicate mosquitos"

I just

imagine thinking we know the ecosystem well enough that we can do that with no consequences. Like, there are tons of studies trying to prove it would be okay, but it strikes me very much as playing g-d in a very bad way.

Like, I don't need people to like parasites, or even appreciate them. But we shouldn't be trying to kill them all, either, when they are so important for the ecosystem.

[ultimatebugpoll]

ROUND 1 OF THE TUMBLR INSECT POLL

[dorkmatters]

We dork out about the world's deadliest animal, our fave modern children's book illustrators, and the strange phenomenon that makes people need to poop when they visit a bookstore. 

#illustration #kidsbookillustration #childrensbooks #mosquitoes #bookstorepoop

[floridaboiler]

[hes-a-plant]

Gah I hate mosquitos why do humans have such nasty reactions to necessary parts of the ecosystem?

There should be an “opt out” button I can click somewhere that lets mosquitos take my blood and leave nothing in return. I don’t want your itchy juice!

[carrotsnake]

the wildly different reactions you get from the yiga outfit show how likely you're familiar with them depending on where you live in hyrule. from merchants who say 'oh, a yiga are you? well i don't discrimate, anyone is welcome to buy from me :)' to the sheikah's 'link! for a second I thought my time was up...that outfit reflects a truly dark period of sheikah history. many of us have lost our lives to them. now change before i skewer you' and then gerudo travellers are like 'we don't talk to STINKY yiga boys. go eat a banana ugly!!'

[emsgoodthinkin]

when you—w-when, when fuck—

[geometricfractal]

It is tempting to believe that mosquitos are merely another flying insect, doing their own thing with no regard to how it affects humans.

I present a new theory: mosquitos are actually highly intelligent beings who have discovered the exact distance one must fly from a human head to cause said human to slap themselves repeatedly about the face and head without actually doing any harm to the mosquito. I further present that this is a form of entertainment in the mosquito kingdom, with points given for number and intensity of slaps.

I rest my case.