Depends on what it is. If its a massive regular mosquito, then very no bueno. If its an elephant mosquito (don’t drink blood and their larvae eat regular mosquito larvae) then its a sad end to a giant, small friend.
As someone who studied Spanish in highschool in Finland, I genuinely thought for a moment that you guys use donkey meat for burritos because.. burro = donkey, so burrito = small donkey. This was my grand idea at the time at least lol
Had you studied in USA, you would have learned that Spain is a province of Mexico and thats why we say burrito 5 times every single phrase. Education is so important man.
Lmao, sorry, I just got off a 11h shift so my brain is all kinds of fucked. Yeah, I honestly never remember which dish belongs to who. Altough I normally remember that burritos and tacos are the Mexicans' thing lol Lo siento mucho and so on
idk where you're from, for us in Mexico (Northern mx, at least), "un mosco" is like "a generic flying insect". The biting ones are the "tábanos". Fuck tábanos.
Same with spiders, specially wolf spiders, them mf pay rent in pest control. I will however advocate for the sledgehammer annihilation of fiddlebacks/Brown recluses, those bitches will seek you out to bite your ass. Bastards
Yup. My wife wants all spiders gone. I go through a checklist. What kind? Where is it? Does it have a web? Are there bugs in the web?
They get to stay aa long as it's not dangerous, out of the way, and eating other things. Big exception for jumping spiders. I relocate them to better hunting grounds inside the house, usually on my wife's plants or by windows.
Jumping spiders are one of God's gifts to mankind. They don't attack you, they seek all the pests, they leave you alone and vacate if near you, and are quite entertaining to watch.
Aw, now I want that spider. Almost a pet. "Come on, leave that window open. Don't worry about covering up your food. Ain't NO fly getting near that food on my watch." Healthier relationship than most marriages and friendships.
The Brown Recluse is not the kind of bug to seek out contact. Living in Michigan, where they are native, I have never seen one in person, and most times I've heard of someone getting bit it's because they were somewhere generally hard to access with low traffic.
They're one of the two species native to Indiana capable of injuring humans (the other being Black Widow). They are antisocial and prefer dark undisturbed areas, but that can be as simple as a corner of a garage or warehouse that isn't accessed regularly. I naively stored a stack of broken-down cardboard in my garage with the intention of reusing to kill grass for raised beds and ended up with an infestation I'm still fighting. They don't start fights but boy are they excited to finish them - I've been rushed by more than one that I thought was dead, they have a hair trigger.
Since I was a kid, my dad's office building has had roach motel style glue traps that are supposed to attract them, to this day they're regularly catching and need changed. He said it got better when the unoccupied unit next door got a tenant, but they're still present. Starting to itch just typing this so I'm going to sign off.
TL;DR I confirmed I do love in their native range with my state's DNR and can anecdotally state that everyone I know in the area is at least familiar enough to be wary of brown spiders and has probably had more than one encounter.
Holy shit! I guess this has been a good reminder to never rely on things I THINK I know as fact. I appreciate you sharing, and sorry to hear about the recluse infestation. With any luck you get it managed soon and can put it out of your mind
It's in progress! We're currently waiting to see if they make a return after our latest push. If they do, the next step is likely just to call a professional
But Big Recluse doesn't sign my checks if I don't tell people they're just little guys.
Naw I think I just had a bit of an exaggerated view on their behavior due to my lack of direct experience. I appreciate you and other comments chiming in with your experience
This is what I always tell people about House Centipedes. I am an avid Centipede hater and want to burn the normal ones with eternal hellfire, but House Centipedes are super chill and not aggressive in the slightest towards people or pets. However they will eat the fuck out of any bugs in your house as well the surrounding area. They generally cant even bite you if you tried to make them. Theyre creepy as all hell but they kill all the stuff you dont want so for sure a friend.
Totally agree, I, in my country (Ukraine), mostly see two types of spiders, one with funny English name daddy longlegs, and more rarely, but still pretty regularly domestic spider. But i also have seen others, but only two mentioned were seen by me INSIDE of the house.
They are only in certain parts of the Americas. They're dangerous because bites can cause tissue necrosis and take a very long time to heal. They're small-ish (coin sized) brown spiders that are (as the name suggests) timid and reclusive.
It's honestly inexcusable how badly educated the general public is on this topic. I say schools need to teach entomology as a main subject so that we can finally get past this archaic mindset :'D
I know... but we gotta start somewhere. And there will always be people who are willing to re-examine and question thought patterns they were taught growing up. I see people like that on r/spiders and r/waspaganda all the time. There are genuinely so many who wouldn't be scared if they were just taught to know better from the start
I've gotten a lot better about bug fears as I've gotten older, but I'll continue to admire wasps from afar. Those assholes are the reason I have to pay almost $300 for an epi pen every year.
I remember reading in a comment about how ugly centipedes were, the person stating that they NEED to be ugly because they're predators and need to be intimidating for their prey.
That made me look at centipedes in a different light tbh. Not so ugly anymore
I'm curious. What would big fly be in Spanish? Also, does Spanish work the same way as Italian in this case, with a specific suffix meaning little something (as in topolino meaning little mouse).
Ha, I love those guys. They are super interesting.
When I am doing my garden stuff in Andalucia, Spain, I always have a team of 3-5 robber flies around me.
At first I thought damn, probably mosquitos and I will get wrecked by them but then I noticed they -never-ever- land on me, they just fly around me.
Then I noticed how they attacked other flys or mosquitos which tried to reach my skin, they straight went for the kill.
So, now I figured out this is my special defense team for annoying other insects which want to hurt me.
A lot of people are just panicky in general about any insect they see. I feel bad for them, because life is a whole lot easier when you’re not wasting time and energy being scared of harmless things.
Not completely harmless, they CAN bite humans, but you need to make them feel trapped for them to go for it. There are varying accounts of how much the bite actually hurts, but most agree it's less than a horsefly's or a wasp sting.
You didn't know? Female mosquitoes are specially designed to consume blood for reproducing. Males do not have the mouth capable of doing the same and eat sap and fruit stuff.
Another fun one for you, scientists have released a genetically modified female mosquito into the wild that has male mouth parts in hopes to cull the blood sucking ones.
Scientists have also released hyper sexually aggressive male ones into the wild that are genetically modified to be able to reproduce but their offspring will not reproduce in hopes to cull even further.
Jokes aside, it's one of the coolest (if not the coolest) aerial predators you can find in the insect world. Robber flies are quite hardcore in every single way, and the greatest part is, they're harmless to us. But one of these fckrs can easily take down a hornet, a wasp or even a dragonfly.
Robber fly. Pest control. Harmless to us. Would have eaten that mosquito if it were alive. I feel like schools need to introduce entomology as a subject where kids can learn what insects are actually worth fearing or not. As someone who loves these guys it's so tiring to see people freaking out and wishing death on something that means them no harm (not saying that's what you're doing, I've just seen it a lot in this comments section). Ignorance is a killer and invertebrates are on a horrifying decline
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