We got terribly swarmed in a very remote area in Michigan's upper peninsula while walking in the woods. My partner and I grabbed pine branches and started waving them around us while we ran back, but my dog kept thinking I was playing as I tried to wave them around her and would run off from me. Within 20 minutes of getting back, she was covered in massive lumps all over her body, her lips and ears were grossly swollen, and she started breathing really, really shallowly.
There were no open or emergency vets anywhere nearby, so we tried to give her some benadryl and water as best we could. Luckily, she was well-recovered by morning. But the danger posed by swarms of mosquitos became abundantly clear to me.
God you are lucky in lapland. I have always wanted to do that, but the ones here in northern ostrobothnia dont fit trough the doors so we can use them only as patio furniture.
Last year I had to take some parts to a pivot crew working in soybeans. I want to preface this that I used to farm and I've built fences next to river bottoms I've had to deal with some bad mosquitoes.
With that said I never have seen a mosquito outbreak like last summer fall. I took two steps into that field and was immediately covered. I have no idea how those builders could stand being out there.
I think, if they wanted to, those mosquitoes could have lifted me off the ground and flown me to their lair.
A Mississippi delta mosquito bit me in the ass through denim and underwear. The little bastards are big enough that you can see color details on their bodies.
Jesus. I've seen it in wild rabbits, but that makes sense because the ticks can get larger than their eyeballs. And that looks really bad, like their ears are more tick than ear. With the square cube rule the number of ticks to take down a moose scares me.
Lee Kantar—moose biologist with the Maine "Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife—counts winter tick larvae, or nymphs, on a live moose calf in Maine." - definitely not my type of job :(
It happened in the One Punch Man anime. There is a movie called Mosquito, but they are giant sized instead of a swarm. Land of the Lost had a giant one that mostly drained what's his name.
For movies they appear to have consistently gone with the giant mosquito approach.
Special mention: The spiders in Arachnophobia drained people completely despite being about wolf spider sized, which is smaller than a tarantula.
You don't hear bleed used as a transitive verb (with an object) as much anymore with actual blood since they stopped using leeches in medicine, but it's still commonly used for other situations. You can bleed fluid from a hydraulic line, for example.
52 Comments
homes@piefed.world · 96 pts · 136d
TIL I have a new phobia
webp@mander.xyz · 22 pts · 136d
Would stop, drop, and roll not work?
homes@piefed.world · 21 pts · 136d
not if I also have a phobia of sudden falls and the ground! 😬
ironically, I'm a pyromanic!
ttyybb@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 136d
I think that just increases the number needed
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 135d
This is so much better than quicksand.
ConstableJelly@piefed.social · 94 pts · 135d
We got terribly swarmed in a very remote area in Michigan's upper peninsula while walking in the woods. My partner and I grabbed pine branches and started waving them around us while we ran back, but my dog kept thinking I was playing as I tried to wave them around her and would run off from me. Within 20 minutes of getting back, she was covered in massive lumps all over her body, her lips and ears were grossly swollen, and she started breathing really, really shallowly.
There were no open or emergency vets anywhere nearby, so we tried to give her some benadryl and water as best we could. Luckily, she was well-recovered by morning. But the danger posed by swarms of mosquitos became abundantly clear to me.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 135d
Nothing a nice fire wont fix
Twipped@l.twipped.social · 34 pts · 135d
Instructions unclear, burned my dog
nullify3112@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 135d
The real pro tip is always in the comments: bring your dog on a hike for impromptu bbq
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 60 pts · 136d
The size of mosquitoes in rural Canada confirms this is possible. It could even require 4 of them to completely bleed a human dry.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 64 pts · 135d
In Finnish lapland we have mosquitoes so big that my friend takes them and dries them to make sauna stools.
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 135d
God you are lucky in lapland. I have always wanted to do that, but the ones here in northern ostrobothnia dont fit trough the doors so we can use them only as patio furniture.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 135d
Sailors round these parts use the massive ancient mosquitos to navigate the ocean since they dont move in the sky
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 135d
Tell me you’re from the ostrobothnia without telling me you’re from the ostrobothnia.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 135d
Yeah, we can cut steaks off them.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 135d
They generally don't though, they prefer picking people up and dropping them from height on some sharp rocks, then feasting on the corpse.
KC_Royalz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 135d
Last year I had to take some parts to a pivot crew working in soybeans. I want to preface this that I used to farm and I've built fences next to river bottoms I've had to deal with some bad mosquitoes.
With that said I never have seen a mosquito outbreak like last summer fall. I took two steps into that field and was immediately covered. I have no idea how those builders could stand being out there.
I think, if they wanted to, those mosquitoes could have lifted me off the ground and flown me to their lair.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 135d
Especially in Manitoba, it is the provincial bird afterall
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 135d
A Mississippi delta mosquito bit me in the ass through denim and underwear. The little bastards are big enough that you can see color details on their bodies.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 135d
the large ones are called elephant mosquitoes totally harmless thier larva usually hunt actual mosquitoes in water.
mech@feddit.org · 54 pts · 135d
man that sucks
Dicska@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 135d
No no, the article says it's mosquitos.
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml · 48 pts · 135d
Ticks can, too.
As New England Winters Warm, Ticks are Killing Moose at High Rates
SillyDude@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 135d
Jesus. I've seen it in wild rabbits, but that makes sense because the ticks can get larger than their eyeballs. And that looks really bad, like their ears are more tick than ear. With the square cube rule the number of ticks to take down a moose scares me.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 135d
Lets be honest, anything that takes down moose is petrifying
stickly@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 135d
Very interesting read, aside from the blood curdling close up of those patches of engorged ticks. Also...
That has to be one of the least precise measurements I've seen. Might as well say "as deep as a cup of water" or "as bright as a light"
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 135d
It's folksy knowledge, not your fancy booklearning.
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 135d
Lee Kantar—moose biologist with the Maine "Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife—counts winter tick larvae, or nymphs, on a live moose calf in Maine." - definitely not my type of job :(
icerunner_origin@startrek.website · 19 pts · 136d
Reporter has not read/watched One Punch Man 👊
Ganymede@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 135d
I immediately thought of OPM when I saw this post
the_xboxkiller@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 135d
To here was a whole one punch man arc about this.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 134d
casually swats villain
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 135d
Could be Chupacabra but mosquitos are getting the blame
jlow@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 135d
This sounds like an excellent setup for a trashy horror-movie.
N0MAD@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 135d
Oh boy, do i have a treat for you
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 135d
I saw it. It's basically as the article describes.
ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 135d
Sad that the option for "Sucked To Death" in the title was not used
HubertManne@piefed.social · 8 pts · 135d
Im surprised this has not been used in a movie.
snooggums@piefed.world · 8 pts · 135d
It happened in the One Punch Man anime. There is a movie called Mosquito, but they are giant sized instead of a swarm. Land of the Lost had a giant one that mostly drained what's his name.
For movies they appear to have consistently gone with the giant mosquito approach.
Special mention: The spiders in Arachnophobia drained people completely despite being about wolf spider sized, which is smaller than a tarantula.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 135d
You're telling me that tarantulas can be bigger than a wolf?
snooggums@piefed.world · 1 pts · 135d
Bigger than a wolf sized spider?
No.
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 135d
They also did it in Solar Opposites.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 135d
Since it takes quite a while, it's not quite as cinematic as a swarm of bees.
blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 135d
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 135d
yeah but that kinda makes it more horrific.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 135d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_(film)
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 135d
What an itchy way to go
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 135d
I imagine it's more of a burning sensation. Like death by a thousand cuts
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 135d
technically it isnt bleeding, but sucking the animal dry of blood.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 135d
You don't hear bleed used as a transitive verb (with an object) as much anymore with actual blood since they stopped using leeches in medicine, but it's still commonly used for other situations. You can bleed fluid from a hydraulic line, for example.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 135d
Finally, a job for Will Smith!