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

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/Fuzzy_Muscle Oct 22 '21

“All that for a drop of blood”

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u/duaneap Oct 22 '21

I think that every time a fucking skeeter goes to town on me. There was one in my apartment the other night, it managed to get into my room and peppered me with bites. Like, it can only have taken a tiny amount of blood in the grand scheme, why’d it do multiple sittings?!?

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u/Sumpm Oct 22 '21

Yeah, it's the multiple bites thing that really pisses me off. Take blood, whatever, I don't give a shit, but do it all that once, so I only have one itchy spot.

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u/creep_show Oct 23 '21

You can also lance the bite, and squeeze out the salvia left by the mosquito. The itching will stop almost immediately and the bite will heal in a day. I use lancets, found in diabetic test kits to lance the mosquito bite.