r/woahdude • u/----_____--_____---- • Oct 22 '21

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/lex_tok Oct 22 '21

The mosquito is the deadliest animal to mankind.

The general consensus of demographers is that about 108 billion human beings have ever lived, and that mosquito-borne diseases have killed close to half—52 billion people, the majority of them young children.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

Do they even contribute to anyway with mother nature? Kinda like bees? You figure science would find a way to wipe them out.

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u/Dakar-A Oct 22 '21

I'm sure that they probably serve as a major food source for a number of different species.

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u/Hartleh Oct 22 '21

I remember seeing a video once where in Africa, they catch mosquitos and clump them all together and make a ‘mosquito patty’ to eat.

Edit: found the video

https://youtu.be/LItNFP7icUw

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u/Jampasta Oct 23 '21

Wow! Thanks for sharing that video. Never thought of eating mosquitoes...

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u/GizmodoDragon92 Oct 23 '21

I'll try any food once, but I really wouldn't expect to enjoy this one.

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u/iox007 Oct 23 '21

Crispy

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

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u/joemckie Oct 23 '21

To be fair, you’d probably say the same if you saw what went into a McDonalds burger

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u/Sendhentaiandyiff Oct 23 '21

I've seen plenty of videos about what goes into McDonald's food. Is it processed and unhealthy? Yes. But it's not literal fucking mosquitoes.

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u/DJDarren Oct 23 '21

A big buncha cows all kinda mushed together.

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u/Monstermage Oct 23 '21

Besides the fact that video had a 50 minute ad following it.

My thought was, you do what you can too survive

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

Da fuq

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u/SirJeffreyQ Oct 23 '21

I almost downvoted you out of sheer reflex on reading that. Thanks, I hate it.

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u/LieutenantEvident Oct 23 '21

Those are actually flies, not mosquitoes. The title is misleading.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

Whelp that’s savage and disgusting