Or is it that the victims pest warning system is currently winning the biological arms race, in which case how are mosquitoes able to successfully reproduce? Or is it that mosquitoes have evolved such that their spawning numbers offset the difficulty they have biting?

Biology is hard.

  • Trailblazing Braille Taser
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    3218 days ago

    You only feel the ones that you can feel. The goddamn ninja mosquitoes permeate the air we breathe. They’re constantly feeding on us — sapping our life force — and we never even notice.

    • madjo
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      418 days ago

      They’re more like goddamn vampire mosquitoes, as they drink our blood

    • @pocker_machine@lemmy.world
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      117 days ago

      The only good thing that came from mosquitoes was Jurassic Park, which I’m ready to give up if their existence was going to be deleted from the timeline of the universe.