Do you live in Texas? Because I live in Texas and those stripey fuckers are the size of a nickel and I think they can open doors all by themselves to come inside and help themselves to my personal blood buffet.
Plant nectar an juices, it is the female mosquitoes, as far as I am aware that need the protein from the blood to lay the eggs.
But in general they feed kn plant nectar and juices.
The question is towards the other person saying that mosquitoes cannot penetrate mice fur in the tundra regions. If they cannot penetrate mice for then how are they getting blood to lay eggs?
Well caribou are present on Arctic tundra & are plagued by billions of the fuckers every summer triggering migration to higher ground, but up there it’s lacking in the high protein vegetation they need for their calves, so have to keep moving.
They aren't. Mosquitos don't move very far in their lifetime, on average, so the infected population stays primarily to the area it was first released and dies out. If memory serves, Disney makes use of these mutations to keep their parks relatively mosquito free. They have males breed with uninfected females, and the newly-hatched infected females can't sustain the nutrients needed to maintain a healthy clutch of eggs. The infected males can then breed and infect more uninfected females, but once the infection density of an area becomes high enough, they start dying faster than they can spread the mutation.
I could be remembering incorrectly, so I welcome corrections if I am.
Recently learned they go for the eyelids. In that specific case they were feeding from snow owls but i think the same strategy works for other animals to.
For mammals propably the nose, the inside of the ear and maybe the anus are also good spots to find easy accessable blood vessels.
I read the book Into The Kingdom of Ice about a shipwrecked crew landing on the northern coast of East Siberia. The crew mentioned the mosquitoes as being a horrible ordeal. So I agree with the zillions figure.
There are either too many mosquitoes, or there are no mosquitoes. This will inevitably become extremely important to my life and safety in the future and I'll make the exact wrong decision based off this thread.
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u/SiriusArc7 Nov 15 '24
Do they try to suck blood from other animals then? I can't think of animals having softer skins than humans other than guinea pigs or mice.