Topic: Exploding Mosquitoes?
03-Dec-2003, 03:00 PM
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Topic: Exploding Mosquitoes?
At work, we were discussing biting insects, and a colleague asked if we'd ever heard this story about mosquitoes.
So the story goes: if a mosquito is biting you, pinch the flesh below the point where it's sticking its proboscis in. The supposed result is the mosquito can't withdraw, but it can't stop its sucking reflex either, and consequently it will burst its guts.
Nobody else had heard of it and we all cracked up laughing at the idea. It's certainly implausible IMO.
Has anyone else ever heard this (or something remotely like it)?
So the story goes: if a mosquito is biting you, pinch the flesh below the point where it's sticking its proboscis in. The supposed result is the mosquito can't withdraw, but it can't stop its sucking reflex either, and consequently it will burst its guts.
Nobody else had heard of it and we all cracked up laughing at the idea. It's certainly implausible IMO.
Has anyone else ever heard this (or something remotely like it)?
03-Dec-2003, 03:02 PM
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LOL , you always have some interesting topics
03-Dec-2003, 03:09 PM
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I have seen it happen .. and it was done by flexing the muscle around where the bug has bitten
03-Dec-2003, 03:25 PM
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... writing it down for summer reference..
Another fun game to try at band camp
Another fun game to try at band camp
03-Dec-2003, 04:12 PM
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Ya Jay, I have heard of it before. Fun and I think one time, I flex and tighten the muscle, the mosquitoe seemed unable to withdraw.
03-Dec-2003, 06:55 PM
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I've done it. They do explode and the spot does not get itchy.
03-Dec-2003, 09:05 PM
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How many times do you actually get bitten when you know it's happening, slim to never. When I see it I just squash it and that's it but I rarely notice it, and i've got biten so many times even on my hands before without realizing the little ***** were on them stinging me, if I catch them one day :fustrated 
03-Dec-2003, 10:49 PM
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me too, even if u come near it, it'll fly away!!!
BTW.... i wouldnt want those touching me with all this disease and **** goign around!
BTW.... i wouldnt want those touching me with all this disease and **** goign around!
03-Dec-2003, 11:20 PM
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but heres the question with west nile around do you really want to have them attached to you for long? 
05-Dec-2003, 09:25 PM
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no, seriously guys, what do u guys mean by explode? like does it just die? or does it burst?
i wanna see this for myself! lol
i wanna see this for myself! lol
05-Dec-2003, 10:42 PM
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The bad west nile!!!
05-Dec-2003, 10:46 PM
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Originally posted by dOwNeR
no, seriously guys, what do u guys mean by explode? like does it just die? or does it burst?
i wanna see this for myself! lol
no, seriously guys, what do u guys mean by explode? like does it just die? or does it burst?
i wanna see this for myself! lol
05-Dec-2003, 10:58 PM
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Originally posted by dOwNeR
no, seriously guys, what do u guys mean by explode? like does it just die? or does it burst?
i wanna see this for myself! lol
no, seriously guys, what do u guys mean by explode? like does it just die? or does it burst?
i wanna see this for myself! lol
heres what it looks like
05-Dec-2003, 11:09 PM
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did you draw that yourself?
05-Dec-2003, 11:12 PM
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Originally posted by gatherer
did you draw that yourself?
did you draw that yourself?
not the actual model... but the blood yes.... the realism in that picture is uncanny
05-Dec-2003, 11:13 PM
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Originally posted by PunkInDrublic
not the actual model... but the blood yes.... the realism in that picture is uncanny
not the actual model... but the blood yes.... the realism in that picture is uncanny
05-Dec-2003, 11:16 PM
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as soon as a mosquito digs in they release an enzime that prevents the blood from clotting and thins it out so they can take it. the longer one is in u the more it'll itch, so wouldn't keeping one in u long enough for it to fill up and burst be more itchy then not at all?
05-Dec-2003, 11:18 PM
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Originally posted by Sir_Civik
as soon as a mosquito digs in they release an enzime that prevents the blood from clotting and thins it out so they can take it. the longer one is in u the more it'll itch, so wouldn't keeping one in u long enough for it to fill up and burst be more itchy then not at all?
as soon as a mosquito digs in they release an enzime that prevents the blood from clotting and thins it out so they can take it. the longer one is in u the more it'll itch, so wouldn't keeping one in u long enough for it to fill up and burst be more itchy then not at all?
therefore it ends up sucking it back out
