Why do mosquitos exist?

[SandyCat]

Fuck you nature

 

[Meat Target]

Noah forgot to goosh them. Or he didn't notice a stagnant puddle on the Ark.

 

[Beak Thing]

Noah forgot to goosh them. Or he didn't notice a stagnant puddle on the Ark.

Guess he filed them in the section with the rattlesnakes and black widow spiders.

 

[Meat Target]

Guess he filed them in the section with the rattlesnakes and black widow spiders.

That also raises the question: how did the termites not cause a hull breach? Maybe God provided them with alternative sustenance, or they don't like the taste of gopherwood.

 

[Esau]

Job 38. We are unable to justify the ways of God. Hold it in your heart that God loves you, and at all times bless God. Our salvation is worth everything, even unrelenting suffering; like Job, we shall be restored sevenfold. He has preordained us as Children of God, and having this ensuring trust in God is faith.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

I don't know how people way back in history dealt with mosquitos and other bugs every minute of every day. They didn't have screens. They obviously didn't have windows unless they were rich. All day, every day. How were they not covered in bites? Why isn't every other poem put to record not about intense hatred for bugs?

Mosquito nets and screening. Most humid countries just put mosquito nets around beds to sleep in peace.

 

[Beak Thing]

I don't know how people way back in history dealt with mosquitos and other bugs every minute of every day. They didn't have screens. They obviously didn't have windows unless they were rich. All day, every day. How were they not covered in bites? Why isn't every other poem put to record not about intense hatred for bugs?

There were a lot more animals around for transportation, farming, etc. so there were probably a lot more food sources for the mosquitos which were easier to get to and less dangerous. I imagine the overall number of bugs wasn't too different from today since the food chain would balance out.

Imagine how many cockroaches there must have been in a city like Rome though.

 

[Toolbox]

There are also moths that supplement their diet with blood sometimes, and of course different bugs like kissing bugs that act in a very similar way. It's simply very advantageous to steal resources from other animals rather than produce them from food.

Mosquito nets and screening. Most humid countries just put mosquito nets around beds to sleep in peace.

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I will never forgive Bill Gates for not getting his engineertards to finish the magic mosquito killing lazer.

 

[Space_Dandy]

They are, sadly, an extremely important part of the foodchain just because of the sheer number of them. The same reason nothing else can achieve their numbers is the same reason they are so annoying; the blood drinking thing. Their ability to drink blood gives them a ridiculous resource advantage over other insects, particularly the iron content. Tons of other creatures such as birds, bats, and large insects would starve without them because just nothing else can reproduce that fast.

Not as important as you might think. Nothing (save for the mosquitofish) depends on the mosquitos. Birds and bats mostly eat other insects because, let's face it, mosquitoes are very thin and don't provide nearly as much sustenance as a fat juicy moth.

Sadly there is a reason mosquitos might be beneficial, and that's pollination. Remember that while the females are running around being vampires, the males (and unpregnant females) behave similarly to butterflies, eating/spreading pollen.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

It's a surveillance ploy by the government to sample your own blood.