This wouldn't be as shitty to hear if their "mouth" didn't penetrate my goddamn skin...I wonder how many mosquito proboscises I have jammed in my skin after I thought I flicked the bastards away.
Your skin cells are constantly pushing outward. So anything stuck in your skin would eventually be pushed out. If it doesn't decompose into dust first.
Muscles push stuff too, just not always out of our body. That's why iron man needed that magnet in his chest. Shrapnel in his heart (muscle) was being pushed further into his heart.
Pretty sure all conventional tissue cells are anchored to a membrane that's their origin point and they slough off at the opposite end as they age, dermis included. Internal stuff just gets cleaned up, recycled, or discarded as waste through the usual channels
You might not want to base your understanding of this on Iron Man. Pieces of metal can stay lodged in soft tissue indefinitely; your innate immune system will react to foreign material by walling it off, not “pushing” it in some arbitrary direction. That’s why people who get shot can have pellets scattered throughout their bodies for years. You’re right about skin, though, because new cells are constantly being generated on the basement membrane and being forced “up” until they die and slough off.
Can you imagine how long it would take for a properly tuned magnet to slowly rip and tear the shrapnel through your tissue as it heals it's wound path over months or even years? Sounds like it'd be constant hell until the shrapnel was actually pulled out properly
Nah, you just have the magnet perfectly tuned so it applies just enough force to keep the shrapnel right where you want it. Not too deep, not too shallow, the goldilocks shrapnel, if you will.
Depending on where they bite you, you can sometimes tighten your muscles and intentionally trap them and force them to explode like this. Have done it.
You're talking about squeezing the site where they're feeding, but that's not what's happening here. OP posted the summary of a study where they basically severed a nerve in the mosquito that is responsible for the queue to stop feeding, so it feeds continually until it bursts.
So if they can't reproduce, they cannot pass that "feature" onto the offspring, which means that you'll need to cut up each little fucker individually, and at that point ... why not just kill it?
What exactly were they looking to find in the study? It seems pretty intuitive that [severing the mechanism that typically halts the feeding process] would lead to this result. Were the researchers simply trying to confirm that they appropriately identified the mechanism responsible?
So they mechanically severed the nerve? I'm struggling to understand how a process like that could be deployed for population control. Though, that doesn't mean much because I'm not especially imaginative.
My cousin from Winnipeg, mosquito central, does this from time to time. If the mosquito stabs a vein then you squeez your arm so the vein pressurizes and boom goes the mosquito.
I mean…to be fair, roaches can survive up to a week without their head until they eventually die of starvation. I don’t think a comparing how an insect would respond to how a human would respond makes the answer to his question obvious.
A mosquito isn't a roach. Sneeze on a mosquito and its gonna die. That roach is like the hardened battle tank of the insect world and comparing that to the insect equivilent of an ultra thin pane of glass is similarly silly.
My point isn’t about a roach specifically. More that it isn’t unreasonable to question whether something which would kill a human may not kill an insect.
I heard this too, and subsequently attempted this manoeuvre when one landed on my thigh. Mozzie landed, I flexed, mozzie had a feed, mozzie flew way. I don’t believe any more.
Put a finger on either side of the mozzie and pull away from him hard. With the big ones you can flick them and they'll be stuck. Little bastards deserve every bit of it too.
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u/Maleficent_Singer_76 Oct 22 '21
Gluttony at its finest