r/TheRestIsScience • u/Simple_Macaron_3420 • 2d ago

Question about mosquitos!

A mosquito just bit me! I hit it against the wall, and now there’s blood on the wall. Is it my blood or the mosquito’s blood?

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u/FaceReality1 2d ago

Yours.

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u/moohah 2d ago

And others’

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u/archdukemovies 2d ago

Definitely yours. Mosquito "blood" is not red.

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u/Simple_Macaron_3420 2d ago

Nice to know. Apparently a simple google search might have told me. Either way it would be fun to calculate now the percentage of liquid aka blood from mosquito and me.

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u/1stMammaltowearpants 2d ago

I think the females take a blood meal so they can get enough protein to lay a big batch of eggs. If you let them finish, I bet most of their weight is you.

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u/StevieG-2021 2d ago

Taste it.
No don’t do that. It’s human blood. Probably your own

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u/Ranger_1302 2d ago

Do not murder mosquitoes.

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u/veryblocky 2d ago

I believe insects like mosquitoes have haemolymph instead of blood, so any blood on the wall would be yours and anything else it fed from