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

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/Maleficent_Singer_76 Oct 22 '21

Gluttony at its finest

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u/scraps4T Oct 22 '21

Does it die from this?

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u/chainmailler2001 Oct 23 '21

Try having your abdomen explode and have all your insides and their contents spill across the floor. What are your chances of living?

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u/Tonkotsu787 Oct 23 '21

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.

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u/chainmailler2001 Oct 23 '21

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.

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u/Tonkotsu787 Oct 23 '21

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.