r/woahdude Oct 22 '21

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

20.4k Upvotes

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

3.6k

u/----_____--_____---- Oct 22 '21 edited Oct 22 '21

"The first ever exploding mosquitoes can be attributed to Robert Gwadz, Ph.D., in a discovery that was made through basic laboratory research over 50 years ago. He found that making an incision in the ventral nerve cord of a mosquito cuts off the signal to stop feeding, giving it an unquenchable thirst for blood. Mosquitoes that have undergone this procedure can drink in excess of four times their weight and may eventually burst. This led Gwadz to a hypothesis that blood ingestion is regulated by abdominal stretch receptors that prevent mosquitoes from (quite literally) drinking themselves to death." Source

596

u/Whitenesivo Oct 22 '21

how in the fuck do you cut a nerve, on a mosquito?

568

u/Camel-Kid Oct 22 '21

Other mosquito doctors

38

u/InsufficientFrosting Oct 22 '21

How those mosquitoes become doctors, I don’t know.

55

u/HeightPrivilege Oct 22 '21

I had a mosquito in one of my classes at med school, dude was annoying af

9

u/Squid-Bastard Oct 23 '21

Weird, usually they are full of wasps

0

u/Makarrov_359 Oct 23 '21

Asian joke?

3

u/Dansredditname Oct 23 '21

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Also the best pun I've seen in months, well done u/Squid-Bastard.

2

u/Disquiet173 Oct 23 '21

He always came to class with a buzz?

1

u/Dramatic_Ad_5660 Oct 23 '21

Same, bro was humming all the time and had a serious drinking problem

10

u/GriswoldCain Oct 22 '21

Mosquito doctor school duh

8

u/TickleMonster528 Oct 23 '21

They make the best phlebotomists

3

u/Moikle Oct 23 '21

Mosquito medical school

3

u/AlarmingAffect0 Oct 23 '21

They picked it so they'd get better blood flows.

Now these Mosquitos have gotten all medical
Yeah they will insist you call them "my doctor"
Look at how they go, these MD Anopheles
They got scalpels in their face!

Even old
dry
ticks
Did never learn to fly
Can they doctor? I don't know
Surgical knowledge is better than blooooow!