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Female mosquito on human skin

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Виктор В., 20.03.2002 1:45

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20.03.2002 1:46, Виктор В.

user posted imageThe main food source of male and female mosquitoes is nectar. But for the development of eggs, blood proteins are necessary, so female mosquitoes "suck" the blood of animals after fertilization. When bitten, the female mosquito pierces the skin with her proboscis, where her saliva containing anticoagulants immediately gets. A mosquito can drink about 5mg of blood — as much as it weighs itself. Scanning electron microscope, 35x

19.03.2006 12:51, Bad Den

I'm probably behind the times, but how can you photograph a living object with an electron microscope?

19.03.2006 15:53, RippeR

This is a photo of the image through an electron microscopesmile.gif)

11.02.2007 19:48, Гость

very simple... first, you pour liquid helium, and then liquid platinum again... and bu you happiness!

11.02.2007 21:33, gostya_

and the skin is also platinum liquid? or is it a corpse?

11.02.2007 22:19, omar

No, liquid platinum is first poured into the throat, and then, already at the corpse, the skin along with the mosquito. It is assumed that there is a lot of liquid platinum. Only in this case is complete success guaranteed. cool.gif

12.02.2007 0:49, Bad Den

No, liquid platinum is first poured into the throat, and then, already at the corpse, the skin along with the mosquito. It is assumed that there is a lot of liquid platinum. Only in this case is complete success guaranteed. cool.gif

That's right...
If there is a lot of platinum - not necessarily liquid, but solid - success is definitely guaranteed. Even children and grandchildren may needsmile.gif

12.02.2007 1:09, Chromocenter

But still, seriously-how to do this?

12.02.2007 8:03, RippeR

You need to stick the mosquito up to the very tonsils, so that it gets stuck and can't stick out, and then carry it to the irradiator, trying not to swat the reptile.

12.02.2007 8:11, Dinusik

You need to stick the mosquito up to the very tonsils, so that it gets stuck and can't stick out, and then carry it to the irradiator, trying not to swat the reptile.

It would be interesting to see all this action from the outside! Particularly interesting lol.gif lol.gif lol.gifis the insertion process

12.02.2007 22:55, Tigran Oganesov

Finish moderator.gif

23.09.2009 12:59, plotter

Interested. How do you stick a mosquito in a piece of dead human skin??? You can't screw it in with a screwdriver.

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