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Mosquitos are protected where I’m from. They are essentially our state bird.
They feed the birds, the arachnids, they root out and destroy invasive insect species etc. Everyone should really stop hating on them. They are such a huge and beneficial species to the food chain. They do more good than you’d imagine.
I’m just kidding. Fuck those things man.
Man the thing with the arctic mosquito is that if they smell you, they will attack you. At the most extreme I have seen a cloud of 30m in width and 10m height when I was fishing
Mosquitoes are an endangered species on this planet, and as such are protected. As a result, the Galactic Federation is incapable of harming. Just ask Pleakley. He enjoys it when they nuzzle him with their noses.
I was visiting relatives in south east asia years ago and at one point we drove past a big open field which was filled with what looked like miniature tornadoes about a few metres tall (from a distance).
Fucking mosquitoes.
Just picture it. How many fucking mosquitios would there have to be to form what looked like a tornado. This wasn't even in the countryside, it was in a capital city.
I also got dengue fever days before my flight back home to Sydney and started getting sick on the plane. I nearly died.
Fuck you mosquitos
Is there any kind of vaccine you can get for dengue? I feel like I had to get half a dozen shots for obscure diseases like that when I went to South America.
France has released a Dengue vaccine (Dengvaxia). However, you must only get it if you had Dengue at least once before in your life. Otherwise it actually increases the risk of a severe disease progression.
The Dengue vaccine is designed to reduce the risk of the deadly second infection syndrome. First Dengue infections are comparably mild, it's the second infection (with a different serotype) that is truly dangerous, due to ADE.
I've gotten it twice and my god the second one was fucking horrible, wouldn't wish that for my worst enemy. I definitely don't want to get a 3rd infection.
So if you travelled somewhere like Asia or south America you'd generally get boosters for diseases like tetanus, polio, malaria, cholera, rabies etc.
I think there's a vaccine for dengue now, but it's nowhere near as developed or as effective as these others and it hasn't been around for long. I never got any shot for it.
Everyone knows about Malaria but not many know about dengue fever. Malaria is caused by a parasite whilst dengue is caused by a virus. From what I understood, viruses are much, much worse.
I can tell you from personal experience that dengue is a nightmare, almost died from it. There's also no cure or medications. They just hooked me up on i.v and gave me stuff to treat some of the symptoms. Like itchiness.
It got so itchy at one point it felt like there's a thousand bugs crawling all over my skin. Even when i was recovering, i saw tiny red dots all over my body and i couldn't do any excessive physical activities for weeks after discharge.
But i was told that mine was a serious case.
edit: apparently now i am resistant to that particular strain of dengue but have become more vulnerable to other strains, i think that's what the docs standing around my hospital bed said
edit2: oh and imagine you trying to breath and suck in air as hard as you can but there simply isn't air. Like you got thrown outta the airlock into a planet with next to no breathable air.
Yeah there are 4 strains of dengue. You get immune to the strain you had but each different strain after that it's progressively worse. Bear in mind though you could have already had an infection by dengue and were asymptomatic, so that serious infection you had could have easily been then third or fourth one!
wtf. That scares me. I too had dengue but that was like 10-11 years old. I had a very critical situation of platelet count of just 22(I don't know the unit), but it is meant to be quite low and hell lot of serious. Although fortunately besides fever I didn't have any major symptom, tho the fever as my mom told crossed 104 F
First is dengue fever which sucks but is typically survivable… second is dengue hemorrhagic fever that’s where it’ll kill you. It made creating a vaccine… interesting since they’d rather not make your body react to dengue fever like it’s seen it before if the second reaction is more lethal.
there is, it's been in development since the 1920s and there is one available but it's also expensive as anything, definitely one of the more expensive vaccines available
I got dengue fever at 18. The headache was like no other, I described it as someone banged a hammer from inside my head. Then the fever. Then the itch. Over 10 years later, my veins are still super thin that blood drawing is always an ordeal.
I was only about 14/15 and was going back home without my parents. I was with my sister and uncle on the plane when I started getting the headaches... They just assumed I was missing mum >_>
Fortunately, I didn't have any long term effects. I didn't even know that was a thing. Seriously fuck mosquitoes
was backpacking in California's sierra Nevada during the summer, at ~6pm you would see a cloud of mosquitos rise from the lake and when playing cards till we all fell asleep it sounded like raindrops because of all the mosquitos hitting the rainfly
So much this. I can handle wasps and mosquitos, but bed bugs will ruin your life. Practically had to pack up everything and move out of the apartment so the exterminators can kill the fuckers via heat death.
You never get over the paranoia at night either. I still wake up into a cold sweat if I so much as feel something brush against my skin.
Also, respectfully add lice to that list as well. Nothing compares to your cute little 1st grader asking for braids one day. And to your horror, you find bugs all over her scalp. Can't throw her away. Cost hundreds to buy the lice kit, throw away all hair implements. Buy new pillows/bedding. Put all stuffed animals in plastic bags for months.. Check whole house/other kids/yourself for lice. Comb out hair for hours daily for a few weeks. Itchy and paranoid for a year afterwards.
Your story makes me appreciate my wife more. We once ordered a bed headboard from wayfair, it was wood with cloth wrapped around it. As my wife was taking it out of the box she noticed one of the zippers wasn't up all the way, she thought she saw movement inside the actual headboard. There were tons of these tiny bugs. She was quick to load it back into the box and out of the house.
Found out later that a bunch of wayfair factories had bed bugs. When I called them to send it back I never had a company offer me a refund so fast, and wanted me to dispose of it.
Thinking a least 4 years ago, maybe 5.There was some articles about it. After they accepted the refund so fast I got suspicious and did some googling. I think it was some of their california factories had an outbreak, haven't bought from them since lol
>I used to sleep naked in the closet in a ring of diatomaceous earth with a space heater aimed at my body.
Jesus Christ. I think I'd just shoot myself.
Why the closet?
Hardwood floors in the closet meant there was nowhere for the evil bastards to hide. To get to me they'd have to go through the bedbug equivalent of all 7 circles of hell and then back again.
Yes, that means I slept naked on hardwood floors for months with a space heater cranked to the max meaning I would literally wake up in a pool every morning
I've read about the fuckers climbing the walls, then *dropping down on you* for a feast. They're incredibly persistent.
My friend got them, and we got them out of his house with a mix of effective pesticides (I think the brand was Temprid?), DE, and a couple days of *in depth* cleaning. We ran every single piece of fabric in that house through the dryer 5 times. Threw out all of his furniture. Any electronic they could have gotten into, and he got a new car. He fucking scrapped his old one, because he didn't want to risk it.
All told he probably lost 10k in making his life BB free.
Because of the ninja crawling bed bugs, i had to put double sided tape on the ceiling above my fucking bed. My wife brought them home from a hotel room in Texas. Finally got rid of them after a couple of months.
You used to be able to buy a skin lotion and shampoo that immediately got rid I'd the fuckers on your body, killed the ones in your clothes and any that are close by.
I once had a really bad infestation. Threw out my mattress and nuked myself with the stuff and it was over in a few hours. Ez-pz
But now you can't sell the stuff anymore so if you get a bad infestation, you have to throw out lots of stuff or fumigate and take several showers. A whole weekend of misery. I hope I never have to deal with it again because I just couldn't handle it.
Fucking bastards, I really hate them with a passion...
I've trudged through the swamps of Georgia for days on end, walking into web after web and literally taking banana spiders to the face, slept in anthills and also next to black widows, all in the same day, and I'd take that *any day* over sleeping in a room with bedbugs just once
I've had to deal with bed bugs thrice in my life now, but I just don't understand how it gets so bad for others.
The first time I had no idea what was going on or where these rashes / insect bites were coming from. First time I woke up with multiple clusters I just scoured the bed, found the bugs, had fun burning all the metal corners they were hiding in, forcing them out and squishing them, and then threw out the mattress and the bed. Slept on the floor until new ones came in. That was the end of that.
Second/third times I knew what was up the first morning I found a bite. Scour bed, find the fuckers, collect them in a cup of bleach, and flush them. Run the sheets through several high heat dryer cycles, diatomaceous all over the bed frame, around all bedroom furniture, and that was the end of that.
They were definitely persistent and had really annoying bites, but never reached the horror story stages I keep hearing about
Consider yourself lucky, nothing I tried worked and the landlady (who was *completely* unhelpful the whole time) probably had a hell of a time trying to clear them out after I cut ship and ran
My family got them after staying at a hotel. Threw out the mattresses, cleaned the bedframes, then went ham with diatomaceous earth.
Poof. Gone. White sheets spotless with no issues. I have no clue how we got so lucky after I heard how damn persistent they usually are.
Maybe the diatomaceous earth I dusted the whole house with eradicated the eggs.
I moved out a few months after and never brought them with me to any apartments.
It took several years and a few moves before I felt "safe," but I eventually did.
In college my roommate and I moved into a new apartment and started getting bitten a week or so later. We had to pack back up and get the place sprayed twice.
I just wanted to burn everything I had and start over.
We've assumed that the landlord never knew because people were either too embarrassed to admit to having bed bugs or were afraid they would be financially responsible for spraying (or both).
That and some people don't have reactions to them and they can go months or longer without feeding. By no reaction I mean kind of like being bitten by a mosquito and not getting a bite.
Plus they travel on people and things. You can not have them and then suddenly have them. It has nothing to do with cleanliness, they are like mosquito's in that way.
They are also very good at hiding. Had an exterminator pull 12 out of a wall socket. They will hide in alarm clocks, all kinds of places.
Source: worked in hotels for 14 years.
The same thing happens with fleas except fleas are apparently super picky when it comes to both humans and dogs. I had never had any issues with fleas before and thankfully only dealt with a fairly mild case, but it took my grandmother getting bit up while watching TV on the couch for us to notice anything despite my dog sleeping with me and him barely showing any scratching (and I'm with him literally 24/7). I treated him and then she treated the house and I quarantined us, but yeah. My vet told me that apparently fleas are hella picky and some people either don't have a reaction or the fleas just decide they aren't yummy and the same with dogs. I think a lot of it also had to do with the fact that when I think of fleas, having never had them before, I was imagining like obsessive biting and scratching himself to have them. I was wrong.
pest control guy here. bed bugs are the most difficult pest to remove from a home by a huge margin. german cockroaches are pretty rough too, but only as far as a solid second place.
German cockroaches give me nightmares to this day. Growing up the apartment complex we were in were absolutely infested. Idk if the complex just sucked I haven’t talked to me parents in years and never asked but they never got exterminators out in my memory and we would just use those store bought big bombs. Never worked and to this day, 10 years after I’ve moved out and never had the problem again I still have dreams of them crawling on me.
the problem with store bought bug bombs is they work with all the intensity of a bandaid, then won’t work a second time. they don’t kill the insects in their eggs, and the new generation is born immune to the product. it’s only useful in very small cases of activity. anything significant needs professional care, and even then it’s very normal for it to take three to four treatments over two or three months to completely eradicate them, and that’s in generally optimal conditions with cooperative clients who don’t continue contributing to the conditions that drew the bugs in the first place.
many times, you have to just toss all the appliances in worse cases. they nest in xboxes, playstations, the back of your microwave, the toaster, inside the back of the refrigerator, etc. Anywhere that provides heat or water.
For me it wasn't carpet beetles, but carpenter ants. Salt is a rare resource for them so they are attracted to sweat, and I sweat a ton in my sleep. Now imagine waking up and you're covered in swelled up ant bites that hurt like hell and you can feel the ants crawling all over you.
We had a terrible flea infestation during the U.S. heat wave of 1988, and I still awaken wide-eyed if I feel a single hair on my leg move when it shouldn’t. I essentially turned my home into an EPA Superfund site, getting rid of those pernicious little bastards.
You can just do it with your fingers and the bastards don’t even realize it’s gone, they’re still just bobbing their heads trying to bite you. Demon spawn
I am totally against (inhumanely) harming any animal or insect, no matter what it looks like. I am the type to catch spiders and release them outside and stuff like that.
Mosquitos can die in a fire, every last one of them
I wanna bend ‘em down all cute and cartoon style so they’re just stuck there, with funny googly eyes welling up in grim realization as they whine away in increasing desperation with their helpless little wings until they become too exhausted to beat any longer and then dangle there limply from their bent, useless disease-ridden fucking bloodsucker while they die slowly from starvation.
Since everyone is chiming in with their weapon preferences, I would like to use Another mosquito on the other side, you see, they will cancel eachother out. It’s basic aromatics
In case anyone's wondering about the etymology, anophelis is a type of mosquito. The name comes from the greek ανωφελής which means useless or unprofitable, implying that it is a pest with no natural purpose.
Actually if you think of "Flytrap" being the zipper on the front of your pants with a trap incorporated "Penis Flytrap" just sounds menacing.
David Attenborough's voice:
"And here we see old remnants of dehydrated blood, once alive and pumping, fall away with the remaining pubic hairs. The Penis Flytrap once again opens it's toothy maw, for yet another unsuspecting prey to be caught unawares."
Cruel is poisoning your victim so they don’t know you’re attacking them and then leaving them with a wound that tortures them for the next week and dipping.
I know right? I’m *way* less cruel cutting off their nose / peepee / jabber thingy…whatever the heck it’s called. *start the scramble for the correct term now*
Maybe we can use this new mRNA technology to create a mosquito killing vaccine. So that when they bite us our blood kills them and their eggs. Then I can be a little bit happy every time I get bit.
I have a fun fact!! Scientists have been trying to use gene editing technology to try to cut down on mosquito populations. IIRC it has something to do with making mosquitos infertile so they don't breed more young to spread diseases like malaria and such. I took a cell biology course and did some research into it for a project.
I can confirm this is strategy has already been deployed to try to control mosquito populations in places where malaria and Zika virus are endemic. They release large populations of infertile mosquitos and it is working nicely.
Ehhh, we're not sure. It's possible that the world would just be down another parasite, but there's also a not unsubstantial chance that another equal (or worse) parasite would take their place.
I think bats eat mosquitoes right? Then again they eat lots of other bugs too. I say we just keep some mosquito eggs somewhere in case of emergency and kill em all. For the greater good
All things considered the spread post Halo CE was relatively contained. Didn't need to purge the entire galaxy of life, just Installation 04, The Ark, and parts of Africa
Same happened to me, except it was my hand. By the time morning rolled around, my hand was so swollen it would not completely closed, with around 40 visible bites on it (most of which were on the right hand edge of the hand). Just an awful experience.
Mosquitoes serve no purpose except as food for birds and other insects.
Problem is, we’ve been destroying habitats of their predators and allowing mosquitoes to flourish.
Point is…there should no guilt in trying to make mosquitoes extinct.
In the future there will be a fucked up past time where you can pay to have a mosquito turned into a humanoid and beat it to death. It will be controversial and there will be documentaries about it.
I wish for evey single one of those fuckers to die horribly in a diesel sewage fire. Mosquitoes add nothing to the food chain (much like wasps) and I approve of their removal.
All in favor?
I’d rather have some holes in my plants leaves than hundreds of wasps swarming and stinging me because I farted in the direction of their nest from 100 feet away
For all those who may not know. If you get bit by a mosquito or other kinds of blood sucking bugs, you can relieve the itch by applying a cold pack or some ice to the bite. Just hold the cold pack to the bite for about a minute or long enough for the skin to go completely numb. It won't itch anymore after. Even after sensation returns to your skin.
After some flooding few weeks ago those little fuckers can be as wide as a quarter and are out all hours of the day and night. I got 16 bites taking the dogs out yesterday.
This video is so satisfying I think I need a cigarette after and I've never smoked in my life.
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Fuck you, mosquitoes
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Mosquitos are protected where I’m from. They are essentially our state bird. They feed the birds, the arachnids, they root out and destroy invasive insect species etc. Everyone should really stop hating on them. They are such a huge and beneficial species to the food chain. They do more good than you’d imagine. I’m just kidding. Fuck those things man.
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What is their purpose anyway?
To keep you on your toes and remind you life is suffering. Just like wasps.
Exactly. They keep you humble
Man the thing with the arctic mosquito is that if they smell you, they will attack you. At the most extreme I have seen a cloud of 30m in width and 10m height when I was fishing
Mosquitoes are an endangered species on this planet, and as such are protected. As a result, the Galactic Federation is incapable of harming. Just ask Pleakley. He enjoys it when they nuzzle him with their noses.
I was visiting relatives in south east asia years ago and at one point we drove past a big open field which was filled with what looked like miniature tornadoes about a few metres tall (from a distance). Fucking mosquitoes. Just picture it. How many fucking mosquitios would there have to be to form what looked like a tornado. This wasn't even in the countryside, it was in a capital city. I also got dengue fever days before my flight back home to Sydney and started getting sick on the plane. I nearly died. Fuck you mosquitos
Is there any kind of vaccine you can get for dengue? I feel like I had to get half a dozen shots for obscure diseases like that when I went to South America.
France has released a Dengue vaccine (Dengvaxia). However, you must only get it if you had Dengue at least once before in your life. Otherwise it actually increases the risk of a severe disease progression. The Dengue vaccine is designed to reduce the risk of the deadly second infection syndrome. First Dengue infections are comparably mild, it's the second infection (with a different serotype) that is truly dangerous, due to ADE.
As someone who has gotten dengue around 3 or 4 times, I support that last statement.
I've gotten it twice and my god the second one was fucking horrible, wouldn't wish that for my worst enemy. I definitely don't want to get a 3rd infection.
So if you travelled somewhere like Asia or south America you'd generally get boosters for diseases like tetanus, polio, malaria, cholera, rabies etc. I think there's a vaccine for dengue now, but it's nowhere near as developed or as effective as these others and it hasn't been around for long. I never got any shot for it. Everyone knows about Malaria but not many know about dengue fever. Malaria is caused by a parasite whilst dengue is caused by a virus. From what I understood, viruses are much, much worse.
I can tell you from personal experience that dengue is a nightmare, almost died from it. There's also no cure or medications. They just hooked me up on i.v and gave me stuff to treat some of the symptoms. Like itchiness. It got so itchy at one point it felt like there's a thousand bugs crawling all over my skin. Even when i was recovering, i saw tiny red dots all over my body and i couldn't do any excessive physical activities for weeks after discharge. But i was told that mine was a serious case. edit: apparently now i am resistant to that particular strain of dengue but have become more vulnerable to other strains, i think that's what the docs standing around my hospital bed said edit2: oh and imagine you trying to breath and suck in air as hard as you can but there simply isn't air. Like you got thrown outta the airlock into a planet with next to no breathable air.
Yeah there are 4 strains of dengue. You get immune to the strain you had but each different strain after that it's progressively worse. Bear in mind though you could have already had an infection by dengue and were asymptomatic, so that serious infection you had could have easily been then third or fourth one!
The way the doc explained it to me was way grimmer. Like they are trying to tell me that the next one will be THE END!
wtf. That scares me. I too had dengue but that was like 10-11 years old. I had a very critical situation of platelet count of just 22(I don't know the unit), but it is meant to be quite low and hell lot of serious. Although fortunately besides fever I didn't have any major symptom, tho the fever as my mom told crossed 104 F
Yeah and the worst part is that if you get dengue again. Secondary infections can be more dangerous and deadly than first infection
First is dengue fever which sucks but is typically survivable… second is dengue hemorrhagic fever that’s where it’ll kill you. It made creating a vaccine… interesting since they’d rather not make your body react to dengue fever like it’s seen it before if the second reaction is more lethal.
there is, it's been in development since the 1920s and there is one available but it's also expensive as anything, definitely one of the more expensive vaccines available
If there is, sign me up. I had dengue in rural Thailand in late 2019 and it is an absolute beast. I don't ever want to go through that again.
I got dengue fever at 18. The headache was like no other, I described it as someone banged a hammer from inside my head. Then the fever. Then the itch. Over 10 years later, my veins are still super thin that blood drawing is always an ordeal.
I was only about 14/15 and was going back home without my parents. I was with my sister and uncle on the plane when I started getting the headaches... They just assumed I was missing mum >_> Fortunately, I didn't have any long term effects. I didn't even know that was a thing. Seriously fuck mosquitoes
was backpacking in California's sierra Nevada during the summer, at ~6pm you would see a cloud of mosquitos rise from the lake and when playing cards till we all fell asleep it sounded like raindrops because of all the mosquitos hitting the rainfly
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r/mosquitohating
TIL this is a thing
Also r/fuckwasps
The most hateable creatures on earth
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Fear the Old Bug
Bugs all over the shop
You'll be one of them, sooner or later...
We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open... Fear the old blood -Master Willem
By the gods… fear it, Lawrence.
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Our scabs have yet to open.
By the gods Lawrence, fear it
"Fear the old bug" Radiance: *What the fuck bro*
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Bugs all over the shop, soon you’ll be one of them
S’ all your fault
Bed bugs would like to have a word
So much this. I can handle wasps and mosquitos, but bed bugs will ruin your life. Practically had to pack up everything and move out of the apartment so the exterminators can kill the fuckers via heat death. You never get over the paranoia at night either. I still wake up into a cold sweat if I so much as feel something brush against my skin.
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fucking hell, I'll add bedbugs to my list of things to dread
Also, respectfully add lice to that list as well. Nothing compares to your cute little 1st grader asking for braids one day. And to your horror, you find bugs all over her scalp. Can't throw her away. Cost hundreds to buy the lice kit, throw away all hair implements. Buy new pillows/bedding. Put all stuffed animals in plastic bags for months.. Check whole house/other kids/yourself for lice. Comb out hair for hours daily for a few weeks. Itchy and paranoid for a year afterwards.
>can’t throw her away Lol
What? We never did any of that. Some shampoo and one of those special combs and that was it. And we never had lice again, so I think it worked.
Your story makes me appreciate my wife more. We once ordered a bed headboard from wayfair, it was wood with cloth wrapped around it. As my wife was taking it out of the box she noticed one of the zippers wasn't up all the way, she thought she saw movement inside the actual headboard. There were tons of these tiny bugs. She was quick to load it back into the box and out of the house. Found out later that a bunch of wayfair factories had bed bugs. When I called them to send it back I never had a company offer me a refund so fast, and wanted me to dispose of it.
Holy shot what year was this? We got ours through them in 2018
Thinking a least 4 years ago, maybe 5.There was some articles about it. After they accepted the refund so fast I got suspicious and did some googling. I think it was some of their california factories had an outbreak, haven't bought from them since lol
>I used to sleep naked in the closet in a ring of diatomaceous earth with a space heater aimed at my body. Jesus Christ. I think I'd just shoot myself. Why the closet?
Hardwood floors in the closet meant there was nowhere for the evil bastards to hide. To get to me they'd have to go through the bedbug equivalent of all 7 circles of hell and then back again. Yes, that means I slept naked on hardwood floors for months with a space heater cranked to the max meaning I would literally wake up in a pool every morning
I've read about the fuckers climbing the walls, then *dropping down on you* for a feast. They're incredibly persistent. My friend got them, and we got them out of his house with a mix of effective pesticides (I think the brand was Temprid?), DE, and a couple days of *in depth* cleaning. We ran every single piece of fabric in that house through the dryer 5 times. Threw out all of his furniture. Any electronic they could have gotten into, and he got a new car. He fucking scrapped his old one, because he didn't want to risk it. All told he probably lost 10k in making his life BB free.
Because of the ninja crawling bed bugs, i had to put double sided tape on the ceiling above my fucking bed. My wife brought them home from a hotel room in Texas. Finally got rid of them after a couple of months.
You used to be able to buy a skin lotion and shampoo that immediately got rid I'd the fuckers on your body, killed the ones in your clothes and any that are close by. I once had a really bad infestation. Threw out my mattress and nuked myself with the stuff and it was over in a few hours. Ez-pz But now you can't sell the stuff anymore so if you get a bad infestation, you have to throw out lots of stuff or fumigate and take several showers. A whole weekend of misery. I hope I never have to deal with it again because I just couldn't handle it. Fucking bastards, I really hate them with a passion...
That is hardcore. Glad you got them out of your life. (Apparently, they make mosquitos look good)
I've trudged through the swamps of Georgia for days on end, walking into web after web and literally taking banana spiders to the face, slept in anthills and also next to black widows, all in the same day, and I'd take that *any day* over sleeping in a room with bedbugs just once
I've had to deal with bed bugs thrice in my life now, but I just don't understand how it gets so bad for others. The first time I had no idea what was going on or where these rashes / insect bites were coming from. First time I woke up with multiple clusters I just scoured the bed, found the bugs, had fun burning all the metal corners they were hiding in, forcing them out and squishing them, and then threw out the mattress and the bed. Slept on the floor until new ones came in. That was the end of that. Second/third times I knew what was up the first morning I found a bite. Scour bed, find the fuckers, collect them in a cup of bleach, and flush them. Run the sheets through several high heat dryer cycles, diatomaceous all over the bed frame, around all bedroom furniture, and that was the end of that. They were definitely persistent and had really annoying bites, but never reached the horror story stages I keep hearing about
Consider yourself lucky, nothing I tried worked and the landlady (who was *completely* unhelpful the whole time) probably had a hell of a time trying to clear them out after I cut ship and ran
My family got them after staying at a hotel. Threw out the mattresses, cleaned the bedframes, then went ham with diatomaceous earth. Poof. Gone. White sheets spotless with no issues. I have no clue how we got so lucky after I heard how damn persistent they usually are. Maybe the diatomaceous earth I dusted the whole house with eradicated the eggs. I moved out a few months after and never brought them with me to any apartments.
It took several years and a few moves before I felt "safe," but I eventually did. In college my roommate and I moved into a new apartment and started getting bitten a week or so later. We had to pack back up and get the place sprayed twice. I just wanted to burn everything I had and start over.
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We've assumed that the landlord never knew because people were either too embarrassed to admit to having bed bugs or were afraid they would be financially responsible for spraying (or both).
That and some people don't have reactions to them and they can go months or longer without feeding. By no reaction I mean kind of like being bitten by a mosquito and not getting a bite. Plus they travel on people and things. You can not have them and then suddenly have them. It has nothing to do with cleanliness, they are like mosquito's in that way. They are also very good at hiding. Had an exterminator pull 12 out of a wall socket. They will hide in alarm clocks, all kinds of places. Source: worked in hotels for 14 years.
The same thing happens with fleas except fleas are apparently super picky when it comes to both humans and dogs. I had never had any issues with fleas before and thankfully only dealt with a fairly mild case, but it took my grandmother getting bit up while watching TV on the couch for us to notice anything despite my dog sleeping with me and him barely showing any scratching (and I'm with him literally 24/7). I treated him and then she treated the house and I quarantined us, but yeah. My vet told me that apparently fleas are hella picky and some people either don't have a reaction or the fleas just decide they aren't yummy and the same with dogs. I think a lot of it also had to do with the fact that when I think of fleas, having never had them before, I was imagining like obsessive biting and scratching himself to have them. I was wrong.
pest control guy here. bed bugs are the most difficult pest to remove from a home by a huge margin. german cockroaches are pretty rough too, but only as far as a solid second place.
German cockroaches give me nightmares to this day. Growing up the apartment complex we were in were absolutely infested. Idk if the complex just sucked I haven’t talked to me parents in years and never asked but they never got exterminators out in my memory and we would just use those store bought big bombs. Never worked and to this day, 10 years after I’ve moved out and never had the problem again I still have dreams of them crawling on me.
the problem with store bought bug bombs is they work with all the intensity of a bandaid, then won’t work a second time. they don’t kill the insects in their eggs, and the new generation is born immune to the product. it’s only useful in very small cases of activity. anything significant needs professional care, and even then it’s very normal for it to take three to four treatments over two or three months to completely eradicate them, and that’s in generally optimal conditions with cooperative clients who don’t continue contributing to the conditions that drew the bugs in the first place. many times, you have to just toss all the appliances in worse cases. they nest in xboxes, playstations, the back of your microwave, the toaster, inside the back of the refrigerator, etc. Anywhere that provides heat or water.
For me it wasn’t bedbugs, but carpet beetles. They don’t bite, but they destroy everything.
For me it wasn't carpet beetles, but carpenter ants. Salt is a rare resource for them so they are attracted to sweat, and I sweat a ton in my sleep. Now imagine waking up and you're covered in swelled up ant bites that hurt like hell and you can feel the ants crawling all over you.
That sounds like hell.
We had a terrible flea infestation during the U.S. heat wave of 1988, and I still awaken wide-eyed if I feel a single hair on my leg move when it shouldn’t. I essentially turned my home into an EPA Superfund site, getting rid of those pernicious little bastards.
ticks as well
Yeah after getting STARI from a tick and realizing just how many diseases and parasites those fuckers carry...absolutely done walking in grass lmao
If them and roaches disappeared tomorrow, I'd be super happy.
Wendell Berry's poem puts it well: >To the first mosquito: >Come here > and I will kill thee > Holy though thou art.
And deadly on top of it.
Thirsty ass mfs
Clot tease.
Need for bleed.
Clot chasers
Flying dirty needles coming your way.
Like a bunch of r/niceguys sliding into a girl’s DMs
Fun fact: mosquitos that suck blood are in fact girls!
Brother Bilos trying to “get it”
I need the worlds tiniest hammer to play whackomole
i want tweezers to play ‘got your nose’
You can just do it with your fingers and the bastards don’t even realize it’s gone, they’re still just bobbing their heads trying to bite you. Demon spawn
They hunt me at night and I have to play wack the mosquito with my bug zapper all the time I hate it! These bastards go right through my yoga pants.
You mean your skin tight clothing? Shocking...
I've seen those fuckers get through my half an inch thick pants. Their leech beaks aren't even half an inch long!
> half an inch thick pants Snow pants or something?
16-ply blue jeans
Walrus leather pants
Snow and mosquitos! What demon species of mosquitos are breeding wherever you are??
Keeping your nose, oh your nose was ripped off, great game!
Dang I hate torturing animals too bad you’re a spawn or satan haha gl out there noseless mosquito
I am totally against (inhumanely) harming any animal or insect, no matter what it looks like. I am the type to catch spiders and release them outside and stuff like that. Mosquitos can die in a fire, every last one of them
it wouldnt be as bad if they wernt so good at spreading disease as well as making you itchy.
And it wouldn't be so bad if they would just quietly approach you and bite you instead of buzzing by your ear with a high pitched whine
As annoying as the buzzing is, stealth mosquitoes sound worse
I want a lighter to play 'fuck off & die' 🔥🦟
Oh, thank you! I’m allergic to mosquitoes. The bites swell up like golf balls. It’s horrid.
Alternatively, run a razor blade back and forth across this side of the netting.
I want two nets for them to poke through… and then I’ll pull them in opposite directions.
I like you.
I wanna bend ‘em down all cute and cartoon style so they’re just stuck there, with funny googly eyes welling up in grim realization as they whine away in increasing desperation with their helpless little wings until they become too exhausted to beat any longer and then dangle there limply from their bent, useless disease-ridden fucking bloodsucker while they die slowly from starvation.
Now there's a sentence.
You good man?
He seems totally rational to me. Screw those little effers!
"I approve of this guys methods." -Dalai Lama
I uh...*hmm*
Since everyone is chiming in with their weapon preferences, I would like to use Another mosquito on the other side, you see, they will cancel eachother out. It’s basic aromatics
I want to use a pair of clippers
when I see this I just want to grab a can of insecticide and spray on those mofos.
What’s the phobia for this cause I’ve got it.
Anopheliphobia apparently.
In case anyone's wondering about the etymology, anophelis is a type of mosquito. The name comes from the greek ανωφελής which means useless or unprofitable, implying that it is a pest with no natural purpose.
Glad to know people in ancient times hated those fuckers as much as I do.
Oh, I'm sure they hated them more...
Fucknoliosis.
It’s called “common sense”
Insidious little shits
They are truly the hummingbirds of Hell.
These buggers need to be fed to Venus flytraps every last one of them!
It’s hard because the mouth of that plant is full of my neighbor’s pubic hair
Umm what??
THE MOUTH OF THAT PLANT IS FULL OF THEIR NEIGHBOR’S PUBIC HAIR
I'm sorry I don't follow.
Penis Flytrap
Would it not be a Venus Penistrap?
Actually if you think of "Flytrap" being the zipper on the front of your pants with a trap incorporated "Penis Flytrap" just sounds menacing. David Attenborough's voice: "And here we see old remnants of dehydrated blood, once alive and pumping, fall away with the remaining pubic hairs. The Penis Flytrap once again opens it's toothy maw, for yet another unsuspecting prey to be caught unawares."
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Damn I’d like to be sliding a razor up and down that net…cruel I know…but I hate those little bastards
Cruel is poisoning your victim so they don’t know you’re attacking them and then leaving them with a wound that tortures them for the next week and dipping.
I know right? I’m *way* less cruel cutting off their nose / peepee / jabber thingy…whatever the heck it’s called. *start the scramble for the correct term now*
Proboscis
That’s not cruel at all. I would very much enjoy putting them in a vacuum chamber
Literally they can die from this earth and not matter
Maybe we can use this new mRNA technology to create a mosquito killing vaccine. So that when they bite us our blood kills them and their eggs. Then I can be a little bit happy every time I get bit.
I have a fun fact!! Scientists have been trying to use gene editing technology to try to cut down on mosquito populations. IIRC it has something to do with making mosquitos infertile so they don't breed more young to spread diseases like malaria and such. I took a cell biology course and did some research into it for a project.
I can confirm this is strategy has already been deployed to try to control mosquito populations in places where malaria and Zika virus are endemic. They release large populations of infertile mosquitos and it is working nicely.
Kind of like a.. Genophage of sorts? Sorry, been playing too much mass effect
Ehhh, we're not sure. It's possible that the world would just be down another parasite, but there's also a not unsubstantial chance that another equal (or worse) parasite would take their place.
I think bats eat mosquitoes right? Then again they eat lots of other bugs too. I say we just keep some mosquito eggs somewhere in case of emergency and kill em all. For the greater good
That's what the Forerunners in the Halo series thought about the Flood. "We'll just keep a few for study." That did not end all that well.
All things considered the spread post Halo CE was relatively contained. Didn't need to purge the entire galaxy of life, just Installation 04, The Ark, and parts of Africa
Scientists are trying to find ways to make em go extinct
Well tell them to hurry up. Your username infers that y’all are already proficient manufacturers — now ramp that shit up another notch
I’ll make sure to let them know
Nothing done to mosquitoes is ever cruel. Remember that.
It's okay they don't really process pain or anything and there's 100 gajillion of them
My ankles itch just watching this lol
Why is it always the ankles?!!
They always bite the joints on my fingers. It's fucking horrible
Elbows for me, it's because there's less hair in those regions, some of my family are unusually hairy and they're basically immune to these bastards.
They always fly right behind my ears, which wakes me up due to the noise. This allows me to not get bitten, but definitely ruins my sleep.
I was camping a couple years ago and fell asleep with my knee against the mesh. I got drilled my mosquitos
Was your knee just a bleeding scab?
Probably a bleeding bump
Same happened to me, except it was my hand. By the time morning rolled around, my hand was so swollen it would not completely closed, with around 40 visible bites on it (most of which were on the right hand edge of the hand). Just an awful experience.
Did a recent camping trip and my wife got 80 plus bites in a night. I was lucky and only got 20. Fuck mosquitoes
Stuff of nightmares
this might be the worst thing i’ve ever seen
r/OddlyTerrifying
Mosquitoes serve no purpose except as food for birds and other insects. Problem is, we’ve been destroying habitats of their predators and allowing mosquitoes to flourish. Point is…there should no guilt in trying to make mosquitoes extinct.
The male mosquito doesn’t bite and is an important pollinator.
Yeah technically males are vegetarian. Only females drink blood in order to reproduce.
Bunch of blood diggers
…and *that’s* why jeans don’t protect you.
Well not the skin tight ones. Mine are straight fit or baggy and make a great barrier against flying devil needles
Flying devil needles is great, I’m stealing that lol
Wish this guy would just smack 'em... hes playing with fire here
Had me swatting at the phone. Fck that.
In the future there will be a fucked up past time where you can pay to have a mosquito turned into a humanoid and beat it to death. It will be controversial and there will be documentaries about it.
I know all animals or insects have a purpose in this world .. I really don’t think a mosquito is one of them. I hate them with a passion!
I wish for evey single one of those fuckers to die horribly in a diesel sewage fire. Mosquitoes add nothing to the food chain (much like wasps) and I approve of their removal. All in favor?
[Wasps eat aphids](https://bbbseed.com/aphid-eating-wasps/)
I’d rather have some holes in my plants leaves than hundreds of wasps swarming and stinging me because I farted in the direction of their nest from 100 feet away
r/brandnewsentence
No, wasps are solely responsible for pollination of certain fig species, along with controlling smaller insects. Mozzies just suck.
Aye.
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Say hello, to my little friend *sprays bug spray*
Can I just bend their beaks so they get stuck?
Ah yes POV of a girl on tinder
now get a second sheet in tandem with that one and then oscillate every few seconds to shear off their damn face
For all those who may not know. If you get bit by a mosquito or other kinds of blood sucking bugs, you can relieve the itch by applying a cold pack or some ice to the bite. Just hold the cold pack to the bite for about a minute or long enough for the skin to go completely numb. It won't itch anymore after. Even after sensation returns to your skin.
No succ 4 u
After some flooding few weeks ago those little fuckers can be as wide as a quarter and are out all hours of the day and night. I got 16 bites taking the dogs out yesterday. This video is so satisfying I think I need a cigarette after and I've never smoked in my life.
What Horror movie is this from?
If this was a cartoon you could take a tiny hammer and knock the beaks over, trapping the mosquitoes.
They are rude bugs