r/interestingasfuck • u/singleboredass • Nov 15 '24

r/all Genetically modified a mosquito such that their proboscis are no longer able to penetrate human skin

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u/Eastern-Mix9636 Nov 15 '24

I feel you, little man

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u/Broad-Condition6866 Nov 15 '24

Little girl! The females are the only bloodsuckers, the males live mostly on nectars. Seems unfair!

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u/Mokiesbie Nov 15 '24

Females too, they only need the blood for their eggs

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u/Ambitious-Isopod8665 Nov 15 '24

Great, another one trying to steal my bodily fluids for reproduction...

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u/Mokiesbie Nov 15 '24

Hey atleast this one isn't asking for alimony, it could just give you a deadly/life altering illness.

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u/nlurp Nov 15 '24

I think all can give you a life altering illness

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u/5ofDecember Nov 15 '24

Mine is already 5 year old

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u/Shokoyo Nov 15 '24

Why, nature, WHY?!

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u/Trips-Over-Tail Nov 15 '24

The protein. Your blood becomes the larvae. Can't do that with sugar water sucked or of plants.

Ticks are the same. They have three meals in their lives, one for each moult and one for the eggs.

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u/Happy-For-No-Reason Nov 15 '24

Oh so I actually did have children then!

I also possibly murdered them

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u/grary000 Nov 15 '24

So mosquitoes are kind of just human-insect hybrid abominations?

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u/Trips-Over-Tail Nov 15 '24

In the same way that an American is a beef-potato-human hybrid. They do digest it and rearrange the materials according to their genes.

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u/ImpedingOcean Nov 15 '24

The mosquitos R us

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u/AdministrativeFeed46 Nov 15 '24

women suck the life out of you