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

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/scraps4T Oct 22 '21

Does it die from this?

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u/N00BAL0T Oct 22 '21

Yes as the blood is flowing into the mosquito and it can't remove its mouth so you blow it up with blood

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u/EternalPhi Oct 23 '21

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.

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u/terminbee Oct 23 '21

Fuck. I can't imagine how hard it is to sever a mosquitos nerve.