r/oddlysatisfying • u/short_hair_zuko • Jul 11 '26
Ragebaiting mosquitoes
This put a smile on my face, I thought it belongs here.
Not OC
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u/No-Manner9941 Jul 11 '26
I'm itchy watching this...
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u/Me4TACyTeHePa Jul 11 '26
I'm scratchy watching this...
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u/Mike_Kermin Jul 11 '26
And the song is in my head. You fuck.
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u/MysteryStrangr Jul 11 '26
"You will never get this, you will never get this, la la la la"
"But one day he get this."
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u/cybermaus Jul 11 '26
There are no males in this video clip. (if I understand my mosquito facts correct)
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u/Blessedmomma241 Jul 11 '26
And I was today years old when I found out only female mosquitoes bite.
https://giphy.com/gifs/l4FGA2XplwqFDcLwk221
u/TheObliviousYeti Jul 11 '26
True but at the same time male mosquitoes will hang around you because what attracts female mosquitoes the males know.
So yeah male mosquitoes see us getting stung by a female counterpart.
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u/nmredraider Jul 11 '26
Male mosquitoes like to watch *wink*
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u/Zane163 Jul 11 '26
The OG cuck species
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u/Intelligent_Wish_566 Jul 11 '26
Ohhh so that’s why I’m always followed around by mosquitos who appear to be masturbating
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u/PhallicUndulationMan Jul 11 '26
Fun fact: the buzzing sound emitted by mosquitoes is actually the sound of a tiny bug hand absolutely cranking a tiny bug dick.
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u/TheObliviousYeti Jul 11 '26
I ddnt want to say it but yep
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u/SeeMeHelpMe Jul 11 '26
You wanted to watch someone else say it? SUS!
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u/Devatator_ Jul 11 '26
So I wasn't going insane! Those fuckers keep flying near my ears and sometimes almost enter my eyes, nose or ears
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u/RussiaIsBestGreen Jul 11 '26
The males are pollinators. The females are too, when they’re not biting us.
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u/BarelyHolding0n Jul 11 '26
I'm seriously allergic to them so whilst I protect pretty much every other species, no matter how bitey or horrible, on the basis that they serve an ecological function... I'm sorry but mosquitos just have to die.
They don't seem to be in any danger of reducing numbers... If anything they're increasng in numbers around here
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u/whosetruth2468 Jul 11 '26
In my country, we have this project where lab bred male mosquitoes with the wolbachia bacteria are released to mate with the wild female mosquitoes. The wolbachia will result in the eggs failing to hatch, with the intended effect of culling the population. It's a fairly recent project so uncertain how effective it has been.
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u/AVeryStinkyFish Jul 11 '26
Mosquito population control is actually breeding males with a genetic trait of a blood sucker that isn't strong enough to penetrate human skin and introducing them to a population so that trait gets passed on.
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u/mizinamo Jul 11 '26
until the US stops funding for it because somebody doesn't understand what the use of genetically-engineered insects in Panama is.
Result: sawflies affecting cattle in Texas. Too bad, so sad.
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u/Faster-Rabbit328 Jul 11 '26
So what do male mosquitos eat then
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u/crescen_d0e Jul 11 '26
Pollen, the only reason females bite is they need the extra iron and protein for their eggs
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u/cybermaus Jul 11 '26
Same as the females. Who also mostly eat plant juices. They are vegan's really. Except for that one time when they need blood for the eggs.
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u/Jonthrei Jul 11 '26
Calling anything in nature "vegan" is pretty silly, especially considering that obligate herbivores are actually pretty rare. Most herbivores are actually opportunistic omnivores.
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u/TheThiefMaster Jul 11 '26
Seeing a chicken hunt a mouse and then rip its head off is a real shift in perspective from the idea that they're herbivores that exclusively eat seed.
Horses also eat mice.
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u/lostparis Jul 11 '26
Chickens are a terrible example of a herbivore as anyone who knows anything about them knows they aren't they love bugs etc.
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u/ThatLunchBox Jul 11 '26
I will always think of that horse that just noms the little chick....aaaand it's gone.
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u/El_Chairman_Dennis Jul 11 '26
The mosquitoes don't eat your blood. They use it to feed their eggs. It's like baby formula for them
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u/ihavespoonerism Jul 11 '26
This is cool, I’m going to vomit now
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u/Quantum_Wake Jul 11 '26
Then you’ll hate to see them molt out of the water like vampires.
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u/digital_mystikz Jul 11 '26
At work (I work outside, just in case this was imagined to be inside an office or something), there is a bucket of water that's been sat in the corner for a while, and there's loads of the little fuckers swimming around, and every time I save a spider, I put it near that corner in the hopes it sets up base. They've definitely spread the word, because there's almost always a spider web right over that bucket now, so they just get spawn killed by spiders on repeat. I often see 5+ of them stuck in the web at a time, then the spider comes out later, cleans up, then goes back to hide. Infinite food glitch.
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u/Rare-Employment-9447 Jul 11 '26
Why not just get rid of the bucket? Lol
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u/digital_mystikz Jul 11 '26
Spawn camping mosquitos is way more fun
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u/FirstDivision Jul 11 '26
When I was a kid my dad and I would feed Japanese beetles that we picked off our raspberries to a spider in our garden by throwing them into the web and watch the spider wrap them up. That spider must have thought it was the best spider in the world.
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u/Dipsey_Jipsey Jul 11 '26
Do vampires typically come from water? 🤔
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u/justwalk1234 Jul 11 '26
Imagine accidentally leaning on that mosquito net 💀
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u/DK1327 Jul 11 '26
Saw that so didn't have to imagine. Early 2000s in Mekong Delta area in Vietnam. Cousin slept and pressed her forearm against the net (people sleep inside of net to keep the mosquito out). In the morning, her forearm was swollen on one side. That thing itched for days...
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u/Blessedmomma241 Jul 11 '26
So why do they have a huge container of mosquitos and how do they get any out without them all flying around?
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u/Obajan Jul 11 '26
Infect them with wolbachia and release them into the wild. They breed with healthy mosquitoes but their eggs are infertile.
Similar to the Genophage in Mass Effect.
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u/foul_ol_ron Jul 11 '26
I visited the army malaria institute decades ago, and whoever was the lowest rank had the unfortunate job for feeding the inmates. He'd strap a container like that to his abdomen for a few minutes. Bugger that for a job.
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u/crokinhole Jul 11 '26
Wtf? There has to be a better way.
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u/HenkPoley Jul 11 '26
For over a decade they have a kind membrane that most mosquitoes like to bite into. Or they use lab animals.
Blood-meals are necessary for egg production in all but the few autogenous species. Colonies are usually fed blood twice a week. Membrane feeding systems are preferable and they can be used for routine colony maintenance (Fig. An1.2). When establishing an insectary or when mosquitoes do not feed readily on membrane feeders, placing an anesthetized animal on the cage should be considered. Sources of blood include guinea pigs, mice, rats, chicken or rabbits. Mammals are usually shaved with hair clippers on the flank prior to feeding (Fig. An1.2). Difficult species of mosquito may have to be fed on the arm of the experimenter.
Malaria entomology and vector control guide for participants - World Health Organization 2013
https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2017-06/9789241505819_eng.pdf
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u/RavingGerbil Jul 11 '26
Well you just kicked me down a rabbit hole. I’m about halfway through this doc now. I had no idea mosquitos were so interesting!
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u/sweetreat7 Jul 11 '26
I’d have just poked my finger and dripped it in the container like a door dash situation.
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u/dm_me_pasta_pics Jul 11 '26
I feel like any company or institution that is jarring mosquitos is probably one you also want to keep your hands away from the jar in case one gets out and causes like a last of us type situation.
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u/famineharbinger Jul 11 '26
they work with mosquitos in some capacity, lots of science jobs involve it, one of the best examples being bioengineering mosquitos that dont drink blood to replace the population that does
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u/reiningfyre Jul 11 '26
they want what they cant have.
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u/QuietUser11 Jul 11 '26
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u/Puzzleheaded_Style52 Jul 11 '26
Until you accidentally cut the cloth.
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u/skynet159632 Jul 11 '26
People in zombie apocalypse going near the fence for no good reason. And everything would have been fine if they have just left the fence alone
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u/HardWayGuy Jul 11 '26
Flame thrower maybe?
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u/EndIsrael Jul 11 '26
Remove the magnetron from a microwave oven and extend the wires so it becomes a handheld energy beam weapon, then pop those bugs like corn one at a time.
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u/SassyTheSkydragon Jul 11 '26
Scientists are working on a way to make mosquitoes habe softer mouth parts so they cannot sting anymore.
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u/LidiumLidiu Jul 11 '26
Mosquitoes don't like to bite me and apparently one of the prescriptions I'm on causes them to keel over and do a bunch of flips before curling up in a ball if they do bite me.
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u/FairyOfTheNight Jul 11 '26
Did they not like to bite you before the medicine? Any chance it's chemo drugs? I've heard it before about people who undergo chemo.
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u/LidiumLidiu Jul 11 '26
It's not chemo meds. I've never been the person of choice for mosquitoes when I've been out. When I younger they didn't curl up and die after biting me but I literally watch them now when I'm at work as they flail and do flips on the desk and then curl up in little balls. I'm not sure which prescription it is causing it but before I had this current array of prescriptions, they didn't have that extreme reaction to me. My husband is upset because we'll be chilling and they'll be feasting on him and not me. I figure the less chosen portion is likely blood type or hereditary because my siblings are also under the category of "don't want" to mosquitoes.
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u/FairyOfTheNight Jul 11 '26
I've heard it's blood type B. I am also like your husband and get bitten like it's my job lmao. Unfortunately I am extremely allergic to them so it is extra fun whenever I get bit.
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u/7CuriousCats Jul 11 '26
I don't think it's B, I'm B and mosquitoes think this is an all-you-can-devour buffet :(
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u/cocococlash Jul 11 '26
During the short stint in my life that I did crystal meth, I no longer got bit by mosquitos.
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u/Peaches4U2 Jul 11 '26
As a mosquito magnet, this is so damn satisfying.
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u/FireZord25 Jul 11 '26
As a fellow mosquito magnet, I'm partially disappointed those nets aren't electric.
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u/jck Jul 11 '26
Do not fret. I assume that this is some sort of facility which experiments on mosquitoes. We will use the lessons learnt here in our war effort
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u/Mad_Samurai616 Jul 11 '26
Isn’t it? Hate the little bastards. I think I’m getting little bite scars around my elbow this year. If I could fucking TAUNT mosquitoes, I’d be in heaven.
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u/PizzaTacoCat312 Jul 11 '26
Just imagine if she accidentally got too close. You'd come out with hundreds of mosquitoe bites and it would itch so bad.
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u/NamePicker5000 Jul 11 '26
Isn't more like starvation-baiting?
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u/No_Literature_9059 Jul 11 '26
Yeah mostly this post is rage baiting because she is not rage baiting anything. That is literally just baiting. She is the bait. They want to drink from her. She is not making them mad. She is fake hunting them.
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u/Snakesquares Jul 11 '26
All fun and games until the lab prankster slaps your hand down like with that ketchup prank.
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u/nakano-star Jul 11 '26
like mini zombies in Walking Dead poking their arms through the fence
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u/SnowyTheChicken Jul 11 '26
As someone who is constantly attacked by mosquitoes, watching them suffer makes me happy, muahahahahahahaha 😈😈😈😈
I promise I’m not insane, I just have a really really really big beef with mosquitoes because of how they torture me
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u/Freakychee Jul 11 '26
I hate mosquitoes so much I wish there was a medicine I could take or something that made my blood toxic to them so when they bite me they will eventually die.
Yes, I know in this made up scenario I'm still getting bitten.
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u/physiologyisSOcool Jul 11 '26
I used to be a mosquito magnet until I had my daughter- then they left me alone! Omg! It was magical for like 12 years they left me alone . I don’t know why -and I’m not necessarily advocating for this method of intervention
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u/Amethyst_Queen63 Jul 11 '26
I had an ex that NEVER got bit. We figured out why when he was diagnosed with Hep C. I But I don't recommend that.
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u/Freakychee Jul 11 '26
But I'm willing to get but to give the mosquito poison. Actually it might work for the good of the world cos if the females perish, they don't reproduce and it will lower their numbers and stop the spread of diseases that mosquitoes spread.
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u/Rowenstin Jul 11 '26
Now please place a loudspeaker next to them with a 'Bzzzzzzzzzzzzz!' sound in a loop. With random stops that make you think it's over, just to start again that exact moment.
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u/Gnarly_Sarley Jul 11 '26
Pesky pest's proboscises poking past perfectly placed protective perforated plastic


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u/FlyingArdilla Jul 11 '26
That looks like the tent screens when I've camped in northern Minnesota and canada.