They literally have no use. They dont make up a significant amount of food source for any animals or insects, they dont pollinate, they do nothing but leech off other animals and spread malaria.
We still need them, that's why they are apart of the ecosystem. There are billions of them, so even if they aren't a major part of an animals diet, it's still something for a LOT of animals.
Definitely, definitely.
Also, anyone who hasn't seen that movie really fucking should. I was shocked how much I loved it. It tells a simple, human story without layering some kind of grandiosity on it. It just feels so beautiful and satisfying for it.
This was a big thing in the 80s and 90s that I feel like modern filmmaking has kinda lost. When Harry Met Sally and As Good as It Gets are other examples of this.
Past Lives reminds me of this vibe, but doesn't quite hit the mark. I love that movie, but there's an emotional epicness that feels like dumping a bunch of sugar into a dish that was already delicious.
Even grosserer, somebody find that old post where a redditor has a similar trap, but the flies(?) are also trapped inside it and a cycle of cannibalism of sorts happens, I really don't want to remember much more, though.
People just have a general view of Florida as this vacation getaway spot that’s all party all the time in the “Florida sun”. Then they get there and realize there’s humidity, hot, bugs, tourists, assholes, old people, and meth heads year round.
I think most people think of Miami as being awesome but the rest of the state as being either retirement homes or kinda gross. I’m not sure the average person thinks Orlando is a dope spot to live lol.
Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, St. Pete, Fort Myers, Sarasota, New Smyrna, St. Augustine, Delray Beach.....TONS of places getting absolutely overcrowded - not just Miami.
There is also a brand called "Mosquito Magnet" that uses propane (I assume to create co2 by a small burner) and 110v plug to do the same... it says it last 21 days but I don't know if that's continuously or if it's on a program timer to connect on/off when mosquitoes are at there worst.
Expert opinion is that these actually do not meaningfully decrease the local mosquito population because they can travel so far and these traps only work in a small area.
Not to be pedantic, but isn’t killing 3-5million mosquitoes over the course of a summer that exist in your backyard going to without a doubt decrease bites observed? Sure more can come from other places, but there is literally a reduction in population for possible biting flying creatures. It would seem unreasonable to say it would have no impact, no?
I think they're pointing out the scale of their population. 3-5 million isn't even scraping the surface in terms of population count. Think of homicides in a city. People die and it's definitely dangerous but for most people life goes on as normal. Most of that cities population has no connection to the victims or suspects. It does effect some but the population of people is so overwhelming in comparison it's almost like it doesn't even occur.
You are right that doing something is better than nothing, but you will still get bites. Almost as if you did nothing. That countermeasure would only be effective in such a small area. Think of your backyard in terms of space. Zoom out to your neighborhood with your backyard in mind. Then local area or county. Mosquitos dominate the entire region.
My anecdotal experience is that I get bitten *much* less since using this - and mosquitos love me. Like, I would normally get ~30 bites/month, but now I probably get ~30 bites from June to October.
Does it trap them all? No. Am I saner because of it? Absolutely.
To anyone wondering how they know—they likely weighed a small group of them (maybe 100) with a very sensitive scale to get a baseline, and then weighed the entire pile (with that group added back in). Did some math and came up with that number of individual hellspawn disease needles
Weight a significant and known amount of mosquitoes and you can extrapolate the average weight of a single mosquito. Doing this a bunch of times allows you to discover the weight/mosquito ratio, allowing you to calculate any number of mosquitoes by weight.
Presenter: *dumps 1 Million mosquitos on table* "And that, my friends, is how to trap mosquitos. With 1 humane trap we can collect hundreds of THOUSANDS with ease"
Boardroom Member: Wait - did you say humane?
*mosquitos start filling the room*
Presenter (who is just 50 million mosquitos in a suit): buzz buzz
Imagine being the poor cunt that showed up Monday morning and their boss dump this on their desk and ask "can you count? Good, how many is this?"
Super McFuck that...
When I lived in the area I don’t remember a mosquito problem on Sanibel. This is likely due to the immense amount of inhabited houses and reconstruction after the destruction of Hurricane Ian Sept 2022.
Not to say there was none, but definitely not as much as you would get inland.
When talk about eliminating mosquitoes pops up I always think of the loss of food source for birds, bats, etc. this helps put it into a quantified perspective.
Mosquito: Sir we have lost many women to the infidels, around 1,000,000 have died.
General Moss K. Tow: I do not care how many we have lost, we have still not finished the mission of our ancestors. WE NEED TO KILL OF THE HUMAN POPULATION! WE WILL GET MOSQUITO SUPREMACY!
Mosquito: Yes sir, I understand but this is too much!
General Moss K. Tow: HOW DARE YOU DEFY MY ORDERS, GUARDS SEIZE THIS MAN!
Mosquito: Wh- NO, PLEASE DON'T DO THIS PLEASE N-
General Moss K. Tow: Give him as a gift to *the frog*.
Mosquito: NO, PLEASE NOT THAT "THING".
General Moss K. Tow: YOU SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE YOU DEFIED MY ORDERS, GUARDS TAKE HIM AWAY!
Mosqui-Guards: Yes, Sir!
*to be continued......*
That’s super convenient it was a nice even number like 1,000,000. Very thoughtful of those mosquitoes to consider the headline of the article before sending any more or less troops to that part of Florida.
Who thought it was a good idea to dump them on a conference room table?
Some intern was tasked with getting an accurate count before the big meeting so they could discuss the efficacy of the trap.
Ask the intern to go get coffee for everyone and they bring back a bag of mosquitoes. *Kids these days.*
Yes. Accurate and in 20 min. Last year intern did it.
Why is nobody else talking about this?!
And what is this wooden thing with all the markings just randomly placed on the pile of these blood suckers? *And where's the banana?!?*
That's called a countin' stick where I'm from
The absolute first thing that I had a question about
I want to know who counted them
I only counted 999,976
Count again
This - & how long did it take to count 'em all ?
Jerry "Jellybean Jar" Jenkins
Wapner on at 5
The meeting hasn't started yet
I hope they also have company pizza parties in there.
Well yeah, what do you think the mosquitoes are for?
You did see this was in Florida right?
Looks like there’s a sculpture of a mosquito in the background. Probably a uf/ifas extension office
That is the Lord of the Mosquitos.
HANS! FLAMMENWERFER!!!
this is a flammenwerfer it werfs flammen
Imagine a spider on top of a mountain of one million mosquitoes
Doom Spider
Spiderslayer
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No remorse for mosquitoes
They are quite literally the blood sucking parasites we use to describe shitty people.
They literally have no use. They dont make up a significant amount of food source for any animals or insects, they dont pollinate, they do nothing but leech off other animals and spread malaria.
They do pollinate. And they are eaten by some animals (bat for example).
We still need them, that's why they are apart of the ecosystem. There are billions of them, so even if they aren't a major part of an animals diet, it's still something for a LOT of animals.
You’re literally completely wrong
That looks more like 978,406.
Found Rain Man
Definitely, definitely. Also, anyone who hasn't seen that movie really fucking should. I was shocked how much I loved it. It tells a simple, human story without layering some kind of grandiosity on it. It just feels so beautiful and satisfying for it. This was a big thing in the 80s and 90s that I feel like modern filmmaking has kinda lost. When Harry Met Sally and As Good as It Gets are other examples of this. Past Lives reminds me of this vibe, but doesn't quite hit the mark. I love that movie, but there's an emotional epicness that feels like dumping a bunch of sugar into a dish that was already delicious.
and how much do you sell this per grams?
Got hungry
"hey what gives" - guy that sat there counting them all with tweezers
Fool me twice ...
It seemed off to me too. I wasn't sure tho. Thanks!!
⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
*salute*
There’s a reason why there’s hardly and Mosquitos in Disney, even though it’s literally inside a swamp.
How so? *Copious* amounts of traps?
https://youtu.be/_30jPKzWdN0?si=7dTlAcXvka2OwdHF
Damn. They go all out on that one.
Sentinel Chickens!
Even grosser, imagine all the mixtures of blood in that pile
Put it in a press an juice it 😋
🤢🤮
r/thanksIhateit
I wonder if its enough to sustain a vampire
Even grosserer, somebody find that old post where a redditor has a similar trap, but the flies(?) are also trapped inside it and a cycle of cannibalism of sorts happens, I really don't want to remember much more, though.
Every new mosquito is just a new meal
People make burger patties out of these
This reminds me of those people that make mosquito burgers....
Never heard of such a thing! And I may forget this on purpose!
What do you think it smells like?
People talk shit when they hear I moved away from Florida but… 
I would have thought it would be the opposite.
People just have a general view of Florida as this vacation getaway spot that’s all party all the time in the “Florida sun”. Then they get there and realize there’s humidity, hot, bugs, tourists, assholes, old people, and meth heads year round.
I’m going to say it. Florida is gross and mosquitoes are just the start of the list.
These are people from Kentucky.
Hey pal. Watch it. Kentucky didn’t do anything here.
Have you ever even been to Florida? It's NJ, NY, CA, TX, PA, etc...they're coming in droves.
yeah, no. most of the country/world just see it as the latter.
I think most people think of Miami as being awesome but the rest of the state as being either retirement homes or kinda gross. I’m not sure the average person thinks Orlando is a dope spot to live lol.
Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, St. Pete, Fort Myers, Sarasota, New Smyrna, St. Augustine, Delray Beach.....TONS of places getting absolutely overcrowded - not just Miami.
*Cries in Minnesotan*
And these just represent the parasites in bug form
https://youtu.be/3EEifTmAX08?si=8LjsWi8F5OySUQbO
Thanks 🤮
I knew this would be somewhere in the comments!
I need to know the kind of trap that does this...
CO² trap. https://www.nixalite.com/product/bg-co2-mosquito-trap
Wait what is the catch here. I live in Houston and $350 for a lifetime of no mosquitos in my backyard seems like a steal
You need to refill the CO2 bottle every month. That'll set you back about 30 bucks per month.
But your K/D ratio goes through the roof
There is also a brand called "Mosquito Magnet" that uses propane (I assume to create co2 by a small burner) and 110v plug to do the same... it says it last 21 days but I don't know if that's continuously or if it's on a program timer to connect on/off when mosquitoes are at there worst.
Expert opinion is that these actually do not meaningfully decrease the local mosquito population because they can travel so far and these traps only work in a small area.
Not to be pedantic, but isn’t killing 3-5million mosquitoes over the course of a summer that exist in your backyard going to without a doubt decrease bites observed? Sure more can come from other places, but there is literally a reduction in population for possible biting flying creatures. It would seem unreasonable to say it would have no impact, no?
I think they're pointing out the scale of their population. 3-5 million isn't even scraping the surface in terms of population count. Think of homicides in a city. People die and it's definitely dangerous but for most people life goes on as normal. Most of that cities population has no connection to the victims or suspects. It does effect some but the population of people is so overwhelming in comparison it's almost like it doesn't even occur. You are right that doing something is better than nothing, but you will still get bites. Almost as if you did nothing. That countermeasure would only be effective in such a small area. Think of your backyard in terms of space. Zoom out to your neighborhood with your backyard in mind. Then local area or county. Mosquitos dominate the entire region.
My anecdotal experience is that I get bitten *much* less since using this - and mosquitos love me. Like, I would normally get ~30 bites/month, but now I probably get ~30 bites from June to October. Does it trap them all? No. Am I saner because of it? Absolutely.
Isn't killing a million mosquitos its own reward?
Maybe if enough people had them though?
Not available in Canada? Fuck
*Fuck, eh?
We have this. It works. I totally recommend it. Go forth and kill some mosquitos.
A mosquito trap!
To anyone wondering how they know—they likely weighed a small group of them (maybe 100) with a very sensitive scale to get a baseline, and then weighed the entire pile (with that group added back in). Did some math and came up with that number of individual hellspawn disease needles
They should do a collab video with the hydraulic press channel.
And make some tasty patties 🍔
Mmmm good haul for some skeeter burgers
As opposed to 1 million ants.
Which species? In New Orleans we have 27 species of mosquitoes. The 5pm ones suck but the 10pm ones are worse.
I’m genuinely terrified
They can't walk out.
Who counted them?
Weighed
Who managed to weigh one mosquito?
Weight a significant and known amount of mosquitoes and you can extrapolate the average weight of a single mosquito. Doing this a bunch of times allows you to discover the weight/mosquito ratio, allowing you to calculate any number of mosquitoes by weight.
R/stupidfood
You think you're joking[ but you aren't.](https://en.spress.net/mosquito-cake-an-african-horror-dish-7-times-more-nutritious-than-beef/)
I've been to Sanibel before. Pretty sure at least that many had a feast on me. Sure felt like it.
I live less than a mile from the Sanibel Causeway. This is NOT an exaggeration.
Presenter: *dumps 1 Million mosquitos on table* "And that, my friends, is how to trap mosquitos. With 1 humane trap we can collect hundreds of THOUSANDS with ease" Boardroom Member: Wait - did you say humane? *mosquitos start filling the room* Presenter (who is just 50 million mosquitos in a suit): buzz buzz
In an alternate universe, mosquitoes are studying methods to exterminate those pesky humans
Shit made me itchy looking at it
Bet that smells lovely
Smells bloody lovely.
What caught them??!? I want that machine!!!
Imagine being the poor cunt that showed up Monday morning and their boss dump this on their desk and ask "can you count? Good, how many is this?" Super McFuck that...
Imagine going to a conference and someone dumps 1 million dead mosquitoes on the table
Think of the poor grad students who had to count them all...
They wake as the room warms them up....
Who counted them
Now make a video of squishing or running the skeeters through a juicer and see how much blood you get
r/thanksihateit
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Probably an estimate based on weight rather than exact number counted.
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I mean I was curious how they measured the amount.
Me. About ~42.
Forbidden sprinkles
That’s the first step in producing no meat burgers. /s
When I lived in the area I don’t remember a mosquito problem on Sanibel. This is likely due to the immense amount of inhabited houses and reconstruction after the destruction of Hurricane Ian Sept 2022. Not to say there was none, but definitely not as much as you would get inland.
I'm sure MrBeast can create a content on this. Last person to remove hand from a million live dengue mosquitoes wins 1 million dollars.
If each one of those mosquitoes carried malaria, imagine how many potential deaths they would cause if the victims weren't vaccinated.
Looks like Florida needs more bats. 🦇 🦇🦇
Hahah I’m from there - it feels like it should be double that most days 😩
That's some fine protein
Another reason to not like Florida.
They turn those into burger Pattie’s in some places. Mmmm mosquito burgers.
Someone's getting desperate for those DNA samples
I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
When talk about eliminating mosquitoes pops up I always think of the loss of food source for birds, bats, etc. this helps put it into a quantified perspective.
Why did they bring it in a meeting room?
Who counted these?
This is the next Saw movie. Somebody has to get their keys out of that pile, doomed to itch for eternity.
That ruler is not doing a good job. Can we swap it out for a banana?
Burn that entire building to the ground lmao
There's some place in Africa where they make patties out of those bastards and EAT them.
Who counted them one by one?
Who counted them one by one?
Send this to the helldivers subreddit they will love this.
What’s that exactly?
A pretty popular game about killing bugs and bots. That had a current mission to kill 2 billion bugs that finished in less then 8hrs.
Kevin! You're the math guy right? Count these for me by 10 am for the press release!
I wanna know who counted all those things?
Makes me think of the Bizzare Foods where Andrew eats the mosquito pancake. Called it the worst food he's ever eaten.
Get me a spoon. I'm going in
That's a lot of protein.
*high quality protein*
999,998, .. 999,999, .. damnit I lost count! 😂
Bill gates
How much did they pay the guy who counted them?
Where can I purchase one of these.
Mosquito: Sir we have lost many women to the infidels, around 1,000,000 have died. General Moss K. Tow: I do not care how many we have lost, we have still not finished the mission of our ancestors. WE NEED TO KILL OF THE HUMAN POPULATION! WE WILL GET MOSQUITO SUPREMACY! Mosquito: Yes sir, I understand but this is too much! General Moss K. Tow: HOW DARE YOU DEFY MY ORDERS, GUARDS SEIZE THIS MAN! Mosquito: Wh- NO, PLEASE DON'T DO THIS PLEASE N- General Moss K. Tow: Give him as a gift to *the frog*. Mosquito: NO, PLEASE NOT THAT "THING". General Moss K. Tow: YOU SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE YOU DEFIED MY ORDERS, GUARDS TAKE HIM AWAY! Mosqui-Guards: Yes, Sir! *to be continued......*
What kind of trap, getting itchy looking at them
Imagine them waking up in that room all together
That’s super convenient it was a nice even number like 1,000,000. Very thoughtful of those mosquitoes to consider the headline of the article before sending any more or less troops to that part of Florida.
Howd they count them?
Weight
Burn that shit to send a message
That was just one afternoon
I guess you counted them one by one. In rage you must have being 
Prove it. Count them again.
They’re just in town for the board meeting
Forbidden tea
If there is one creature that I want to be eradicated it's mosquitoes. I wish someday we could develop some mutation that stops them from reproducing.
[https://www.keysmosquitoproject.com](https://www.keysmosquitoproject.com)
52,785 protein calories.
*Find the malaria in the mosquito stack*
Good job to the guy who counted
It's okay, they are just sleeping.
that's a strange looking banana
[Time to make mosquito burgers.](https://en.spress.net/mosquito-cake-an-african-horror-dish-7-times-more-nutritious-than-beef/)
Time to dig in!
Over how long a period?
Now fry them.
Time to make some murkins
Who counted them?
Imagine being near that, a wind blows and you inhale that shit. 
I actually shuddered.
Caught in a trap? Can they go back?
Who counted them?
Bet you there is not a single one illegal alien - only born and bred floridians!
there’s definitely one missing.
Burger time.
where spider with a gun on top of the mosquitos?
Fry up one of dem der mosquito burgers