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журнал Махим, 15.12.2006 11:43

Gentlemen, please help Maxim magazine. We have a category "ask a stupid question and get a smart answer" One of the questions that came up is
" Can a hungry mosquito bite an already pumped mosquito and drink
trophy blood from it?"
I understand that it can't, but I would like a detailed answer as to why. Thank you in advance.

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15.12.2006 12:48, Dmitrii Musolin

Well, "Maxim" and its readers are lighting up! smile.gif

My educated guess: komarikha (and only females drink blood, if I'm not mistaken) it just won't fly to another mosquito for blood, because it flies to the smell of a person and the heat generated. In addition, the piercing-sucking oral apparatus is not suitable for piercing the integuments of insects (the cuticle may be denser than the human skin).

(I'll try to forward the question to a mosquito specialist; ask me about bedbugs!) smile.gif

15.12.2006 13:02, гocть

it is unlikely that bedbugs are interesting to readers of the magazine 11

15.12.2006 13:05, Dmitrii Musolin

yes, they are not much worse than mosquitoes! By the way, judging by the surge in publications, the bed bug is again a problem for both dormitories and the hotel industry in the United States...

15.12.2006 13:17, журнал Махим

Thank you very much. From the entire editorial board )))) Can I refer to you? Can you contact me on the soap?

15.12.2006 13:20, Dmitrii Musolin

Oh, I'm a modest guy! and hang a photo? smile.gif))

I'm kidding.

Yes, write to musolin@gmail.com But give me time to check - I prefer to be sure of what I'm saying... especially printed ones.

16.12.2006 21:40, Mylabris

I agree completely - the mosquito attracts primarily the heat radiated by the mammal, as well as CO2. But it turns out that these are sometimes not the main factors. Once I came across a wonderful book "Secret paths of death carriers" - there about ticks, mosquitoes, fleas, etc. So if I remember correctly, there were tons of mosquitoes grown in laboratories and, in my opinion, they developed some kind of leather bubble filled with blood. It seems like mosquitoes ate blood from there...
And by the way, a passing question:
But theoretically, a mosquito can infect AIDS by not sucking the blood of an HIV-infected person, turning away from a slap, fly into the window of a neighbor and calmly finish the meal?

17.12.2006 3:06, Vadim Yakubovich

But theoretically, a mosquito can infect AIDS by not sucking the blood of an HIV-infected person, turning away from a slap, fly into the window of a neighbor and calmly finish the meal?

They have been "theorizing" about this for a long time, when I was studying at UNI, classical medicine said unequivocally-no. I wonder what infectious diseases specialists are saying now.

17.12.2006 5:23, Dmitrii Musolin

I've asked around the specialists here and even though everyone says that the mosquito will not fly to another mosquito (there are no incentives-heat and CO2), but, in principle, it can suck blood from another - this was observed when very many mosquitoes flew to the victim, and then sit on his hand and suck blood "in a human way"it wasn't. Amazing nearby...

17.12.2006 13:10, Mylabris

And another question (maybe this happened in the form of a painful execution) can a naked tied person (immobilized), transferred to a place of a huge accumulation of mosquitoes, die from a large loss of blood?
For some reason, it seems to me that even if the entire surface of the body is covered with mosquitoes, the swollen bite site will not allow others to get enough (the blood will recede deeper inside). But from allergic shock, perhaps, and can die...

What are your opinions on this?

17.12.2006 14:33, Dmitrii Musolin

Yes you, father, sadist.... smile.gif

18.12.2006 13:05, Dmitry Vlasov

2Mylabris
is difficult to say, but definitely not everyone has a tumor when bitten by mosquitoes. In the spring, almost everyone gets "blisters", and later-there is not even an itch. As for death, that's how many mosquitoes have to come to suck out all the blood. But the effect of sobering up is definitely observed. In our student practice, when the" aborigines " were drunk to the girls climbed, the police outfit to calm them down in the forest handcuffed them to the trees (to "cuddle" with them). Even strong intoxication usually passed in half an hour or an hour.

18.12.2006 21:14, Mylabris

You know, it's just not exactly mosquito-infested places out there. There are places like this (and I've been there a couple of times) what not to breathe about the midge. By the way, the great ones also wrote about this - Przhevalsky about the Black Irtysh River (their cattle went mad from mosquitoes, never coming to the river), and in the taiga - Fedoseev describes the consequences of a midge attack well...

19.12.2006 1:28, Bad Den

So the midge is not only and not so much mosquitoes...

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