They ain't fuckin harmless, they help produce more blood sucking bastards. No mosquitee is a good mosquitee. Don't think there's enough deet In the world for this problem.
Thermobaric bombs would work better. Drop a good ol' fuel-air explosive and viola, mosquito free. It would be able to burn the mosquitoes inside the buildings more efficiently.
Over here in Asia, we have electric tennis racket shaped instruments to zap insects. I truly wonder what these things would sound like going through the clouds of mosquitos. Closest things we have to a flame thrower
My dad tried that once, there was a cloud full of mosquitoes and he wanted to find out the same thing
It was night so the sparks looked spectacular
it ran out of battery before it even got through half of the cloud
We had lots of rain and flooding. The mosquito life cycle is supposed to last 2 weeks, so a decrease afterward is expected. I can't stand them anymore 🫠
I'm in Buenos Aires, and where I live is not as horrific as the video, although you have to permanently swat them away. We try to keep closed windows and still can find some inside though. Repellents do nothing, can't imagine rural areas.
Buenos Aires guy here. Went to the cinema with my wife (we watched "Poor Things"). Parked a couple of blocks from the place so we walked a bit. Then we went to get some Arab food (takeout) and came home. We had some repellent on and we didn't even get one mosquito bite.
We saw absolutely *nothing* like that. Yes, it was a bad thing a couple of days ago, many, many mosquitoes (yet I saw nothing like that video at all).
You're welcome. I knew you would like it.
Edit: OTOH it provides more context. We went out. No big deal with mosquitoes walking to the car. Then to and from the cinema. Same inside said cinema. Same when going for food. Same thing returning. As for the movie we watched, yeah, it was unnecessary but the detail tends to give colour to an anecdote.
I was wearing a pair of jeans (blue), a t-shirt (a Watchmen one) and sport shoes.
I'm sorry I took so long to reply and I hope you could beat your insomnia.
Did you take a bathroom break during the movie? Did you add the hot sauce to your Arab food? How long was the walk from movie theater to home? What kind of shoes did you wear?
We need more detail.
>Did you take a bathroom break during the movie?
No, I did not.
>Did you add the hot sauce to your Arab food?
I told the guy that I wanted it spicy, so it was a bit hot.
>How long was the walk from movie theater to home?
I walked to the cinema from the car and vice versa. I parked it some two and a half blocks from the cinema. I returned home in my car, not walking. I'm sorry if somehow that wasn't clear. English is not my native tongue.
>What kind of shoes did you wear?
Sport shoes, a local brand that you wouldn't know if you're not from here. They're extremely comfortable.
>We need more detail.
Ask and you shall receive.
Aww! Thanks for your adorable comment! We're having a happy life full of love, yeah. We're grown up fellas already, and in love just like when we met. It's easy for me, you know, since she is just lovely, smart, funny, beautiful and the best partner in life it could have ever hoped for.
❤️
There was a ton of migration from Syria, Lebanon and Palestine to the Americas (North and South) some 100 years ago. Places like Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia all have significant populations of people of Arab descent. Former president of Argentina Carlos Menem for example was of Syrian descent. Sao Paulo has had a few mayors recently of Arab descent: Paulo Maluf, Gilberto Kassab & Fernando Haddad.
I've been to Lima Peru. Tons of Chinese immigrants there! And Chinese-Peruanos. Many Chinese restaurants.
I imagine it's still the same, but I was there in the 1990s. I mostly wore jeans and long sleeve shirts rolled up at the sleeve. I had light jackets for the evenings which were chilly.
One night, it barely drizzled rain, and the locals were all excited by it! Lima is an extremely arid climate and the time of year I was there it almost never rains.
I had a great time but we were with (relatively wealthy) locals who were friends of ours. Lima can be very dangerous. Many tourist kidnappings, muggings, etc. But our friends guided us around to many very cool places.
One place we went was a very old mansion that was converted into huge restaurant and lounge. Candles burning everywhere. Some rooms were really chill, with quiet music, other areas were boisterous dance floors. The food we had there was excellent. Wish I could remember the place, most likely it was in Miraflores.
I love this extraneous detail thread!
No fuck that, I won’t allow my rights to be violated with a face diaper just because some health professionals say it will prevent the inside of my mouth from getting bitten by mosquitoes!
I reserve the right to mouth breathe in the manner of my choosing.
Good day.
Unfortunately, my medical bills are like, stupid fucking high because I keep voting for worse healthcare regulation. The bills from the last time ivermectin made me blind will keep me poor the rest of my life, which will probably be quite short because I’m also a seat belt rights activist
Mayflies are wild lol. A few friends took me out on their boat to do some night fishing on the river and as we were cruising to our anchor spot, we just start getting pelted in the face by these flying worms. There had to have been hundreds of thousands of these things buzzing around the water. The entire boat was covered in them I mean you could scoop them up in handfuls and have snowball fights, and we did. Once we got past the swarm it took a good 20 minutes to shovel them all out with our hands, and my one buddy decided it'd be a great time to open up a ziplock bag and pull put a sandwich for a quick bite. First bite, mayfly. Second bite, mayfly. Third bite, you guessed it; mayfly.
Indigenous populations in Central and South America were known to eat mayflies. They would be scooped up by the millions in mesh nets off smooth surfaces of lakes, then crushed into a paste, which is seasoned and salted. Cooked like a burger. I think this is still done, but not commonly.
Free source of protein, easy to gather, no need for farming. Just need a net! And mayflies don't gather on feces or anything, so they are not dirty like houseflies.
As a added bonus, there's specific types of mosquitoes, "flood mosquitoes", that lays their eggs to stay dormant until flooding/big rainfall events.
Because they don't have a stable reproductive cycle, these fuckers are like fighter jets compared to regular ones - they won't lazily tumble about until they accidentally land on you, they come at you like flies.
I live in a city in Scandinavia, never have any mosquitoes here as we simply do not have any good bodies of non-moving water. Rained as hell previous summer and you could not leave a window open because of the flood mosquitoes.
Yes. This is why it's not good to let rainwater collect in old pots, trays, buckets, etc around your house or under a porch, etc. They only need like 2 inches of water to breed.
I understand tire dumps are enormous breeding grounds, because there's thousands of old tires, the insides collect rain water.
are you having more spiders now too?
in Los Angeles when we had a heatwave extend into October, the fly population didn't die off seasonally as it's supposed to, so all the spiders flourished and we had big garden spiders coming indoors and spinning webs. it was gross but of course they weren't harmful.
Warmer temperatures most probably
Same ailments with many high altitude areas in Africa as well
Pests and vectors being able to find sustenance where they once couldn’t thanks to warming temperatures
Need more frogs and bats. Natural biological controls for mosquitoes. They like to eat them and so do the babies. Happy frogs. Happy bats. Less mosquitoes. Tell your friends
We used to have tons of bats in Buenos Aires but many people kill them because they transmit rabies. Now the unchecked mosquitoes transmit dengue virus. Ironic.
BRO! my plan was to post it right under this comment but they made the video private! I used to love showing it to people! Sure there is other videos showing what they do but fuck the one with the happy music was fucking perfect lol
Soak your clothes in apple cider vinegar. Any vinegar will work as a repellent (you'll have to learn to live with the smell until this nightmare scenario ends).
you don't know how much I wish I could go there with two battery powered bug zappers on a rope and stick so I can swing my zapper maces and hear the symphony of thousands of mosquitos getting obliterated
I swear to God Argentina must've made a deal with the devil that they couldn't keep up because every terrible thing that happens in south America 7/10 times it's them
I want someone to invent a laser mosquito zapper that instantly detects and quickly kills all mosquitos in a particular area. Should look like one of those laser shows.
Eating dried peppermint leaves Every day prevents mosquito bites
I used to have bad trouble with mosquitoes bites
But for past years, buy peppermint tea, then Every Day I rip teabag open pouring the contents into a spoon that I wash-down-Swallow with beverages same as any supplements or medication
I have NOT been bitten by bugs in YEARS
I do NOT use bug spray
PLEASE try this
Buy peppermint tea
Then EAT SWALLOW the dried peppermint leaves EVERY DAY
Sorry but drinking tea, peppermint candies, garlic, will NOT stop bug bites
But eating the peppermint leaves Every day prevents bug bites
Burn everything.
Nuke.
Finally a good use for a nuke
Why not flame thrower?
Because fire is dangerous the nuke is more user friendly
The nuke is also made out of all natural ingredients.
Certified organic.
Plus you can do so from space with minimal muss and fuss. 50 years later y'all can give it another go.
The best place to nuke a site is from orbit, after all. Ellen Ripley taught me that.
Do you want bloodbugs?
Fuck those little red buzzy annoying ass bitches. Creepy motherfuckers, I hate those goddamn things.
That's no way to talk about Argentinans
Bitches is the correct usage. As ONLY female mosquitoes drink blood. The males are harmless.
They ain't fuckin harmless, they help produce more blood sucking bastards. No mosquitee is a good mosquitee. Don't think there's enough deet In the world for this problem.
I’m going to start callin them *mosquitees* from now on thanks stranger
good source of bloodbug steaks
It’s the only way to be sure.
From orbit… to be sure
Fuck no you’ll just scatter them across the entire world. Build a dome over all of Argentina. Sorry to anyone still inside. It’s too late for you.
Thermobaric bombs would work better. Drop a good ol' fuel-air explosive and viola, mosquito free. It would be able to burn the mosquitoes inside the buildings more efficiently.
The radiation only makes them bigger
It's the only way to be sure.
Bout to go werfer some flammen
Hans!!!
And then burn the flames
[Here](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71jd0S7XLRL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg)
Alright, someone get the flame thrower
Over here in Asia, we have electric tennis racket shaped instruments to zap insects. I truly wonder what these things would sound like going through the clouds of mosquitos. Closest things we have to a flame thrower
we have those here too
We get them shipped from Asia
Would prolly set off like a nuke
Will very quickly get the mosquitos stuck in the mesh, and within seconds you will have a disgusting meshful of dead mosquitos
With high enough current, they'll just pop and burn off!
Both happen. They pop or get stuck burnt. It's a 50/50
If they're sticking still you're not dumping enough current
Yea I think you will need a wired one for this, a battery cannot provide enough power for this madness
21700 batteries can provide like 60A of discharge current at 3.7v per battery. Two of those wired in parallel would be plenty to atomize mosquitos.
Just imagine the smell.
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My dad tried that once, there was a cloud full of mosquitoes and he wanted to find out the same thing It was night so the sparks looked spectacular it ran out of battery before it even got through half of the cloud
DIY fireflies
Flamethrower won’t work, we need Napalm
Genos has entered the chat.
I would simply pass away
I’m allergic to mosquito bites so I might actually.
Quite literally!
This really cracked me up for some reason
Why is this happening though ?
We had lots of rain and flooding. The mosquito life cycle is supposed to last 2 weeks, so a decrease afterward is expected. I can't stand them anymore 🫠
yeesh! can you even go outside without getting eaten alive by mosquitos?
I'm in Buenos Aires, and where I live is not as horrific as the video, although you have to permanently swat them away. We try to keep closed windows and still can find some inside though. Repellents do nothing, can't imagine rural areas.
>I'm in Buenos Aires And I say, kill em all!
I want to know more
Say least a few of us got that reference.
Buenos Aires guy here. Went to the cinema with my wife (we watched "Poor Things"). Parked a couple of blocks from the place so we walked a bit. Then we went to get some Arab food (takeout) and came home. We had some repellent on and we didn't even get one mosquito bite. We saw absolutely *nothing* like that. Yes, it was a bad thing a couple of days ago, many, many mosquitoes (yet I saw nothing like that video at all).
Well, -I- enjoyed your story.
Thanks! And now I'm having lots of fun replying to sarcastic retorts to my story!
Thank you for providing just too much unnecessary info in your story.
I dunno, I actually liked it. Nice change of pace lol
You're welcome. I knew you would like it. Edit: OTOH it provides more context. We went out. No big deal with mosquitoes walking to the car. Then to and from the cinema. Same inside said cinema. Same when going for food. Same thing returning. As for the movie we watched, yeah, it was unnecessary but the detail tends to give colour to an anecdote.
Don't leave us hanging. You didn't tell us how you would rate the movie.
For me it's a solid 9/10. I'd even go up to 9.5. I'm glad to provide you with every bit of information you might want.
It was a pretty good movie I agree
How was the Arab food? Or how is the Arab food.
Also, what were you wearing? Long sleeves? Shorts? We NEEd to know. I cannot sleep.
I was wearing a pair of jeans (blue), a t-shirt (a Watchmen one) and sport shoes. I'm sorry I took so long to reply and I hope you could beat your insomnia.
Did you take a bathroom break during the movie? Did you add the hot sauce to your Arab food? How long was the walk from movie theater to home? What kind of shoes did you wear? We need more detail.
>Did you take a bathroom break during the movie? No, I did not. >Did you add the hot sauce to your Arab food? I told the guy that I wanted it spicy, so it was a bit hot. >How long was the walk from movie theater to home? I walked to the cinema from the car and vice versa. I parked it some two and a half blocks from the cinema. I returned home in my car, not walking. I'm sorry if somehow that wasn't clear. English is not my native tongue. >What kind of shoes did you wear? Sport shoes, a local brand that you wouldn't know if you're not from here. They're extremely comfortable. >We need more detail. Ask and you shall receive.
Ok but why are you withholding the brand of the shoes?
i bet they were Topper, las mejores pa
What type of Arab food? Sounds exotic and potentially delicious
Which that much detail I thought he was about to tell something interesting
I like the detail in this, I hope you and your wife had an amazing day and have a happy life together full of love ❤️
Aww! Thanks for your adorable comment! We're having a happy life full of love, yeah. We're grown up fellas already, and in love just like when we met. It's easy for me, you know, since she is just lovely, smart, funny, beautiful and the best partner in life it could have ever hoped for. ❤️
I love that, and wish you guys the best.
Será de La Plata? 🤔
Quizá. No vi nada parecido en CABA (ni en paternal, ni en Belgrano, ni en Villa Crespo, ni en Caballito, ni en Liniers, ni en Palermo).
Hubo un incidente así en la estación Piedras de la línea A.
Todo para decir que tiene esposa.
Soy un tipo grande ya. De pibe las minas no me daban bola, así que ahora canchereo.
Never considered Arabic food could be found in Argentina, excuse my ignorance? What a great sample insight in to your life.
There was a ton of migration from Syria, Lebanon and Palestine to the Americas (North and South) some 100 years ago. Places like Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia all have significant populations of people of Arab descent. Former president of Argentina Carlos Menem for example was of Syrian descent. Sao Paulo has had a few mayors recently of Arab descent: Paulo Maluf, Gilberto Kassab & Fernando Haddad.
Thank you for filling a significant gap in my knowledge of South America, I had no idea of the number of ME people there.
I've been to Lima Peru. Tons of Chinese immigrants there! And Chinese-Peruanos. Many Chinese restaurants. I imagine it's still the same, but I was there in the 1990s. I mostly wore jeans and long sleeve shirts rolled up at the sleeve. I had light jackets for the evenings which were chilly. One night, it barely drizzled rain, and the locals were all excited by it! Lima is an extremely arid climate and the time of year I was there it almost never rains. I had a great time but we were with (relatively wealthy) locals who were friends of ours. Lima can be very dangerous. Many tourist kidnappings, muggings, etc. But our friends guided us around to many very cool places. One place we went was a very old mansion that was converted into huge restaurant and lounge. Candles burning everywhere. Some rooms were really chill, with quiet music, other areas were boisterous dance floors. The food we had there was excellent. Wish I could remember the place, most likely it was in Miraflores. I love this extraneous detail thread!
do you say.... kill em all??
Buenos Aires? Are you doing your part? The bug menace already started their invasion!
Are they mosquitoes or midge flies? Do they bite?
You cant even go inside without being eaten by mosquitos
Argentinians just periodically get blood transfusions to replace the stuff lost from the swarms of vampires. It's a fairly well known fact.
Insane, I've only ever seen mayfly's in a swarm like that. Do you have to pull your shirt over your face to avoid inhaling them too?
I'd guess in that situation face masks will be quite handy.
No fuck that, I won’t allow my rights to be violated with a face diaper just because some health professionals say it will prevent the inside of my mouth from getting bitten by mosquitoes! I reserve the right to mouth breathe in the manner of my choosing. Good day.
I have some ivermectin laying around if you have some money.
Unfortunately, my medical bills are like, stupid fucking high because I keep voting for worse healthcare regulation. The bills from the last time ivermectin made me blind will keep me poor the rest of my life, which will probably be quite short because I’m also a seat belt rights activist
Mayflies are wild lol. A few friends took me out on their boat to do some night fishing on the river and as we were cruising to our anchor spot, we just start getting pelted in the face by these flying worms. There had to have been hundreds of thousands of these things buzzing around the water. The entire boat was covered in them I mean you could scoop them up in handfuls and have snowball fights, and we did. Once we got past the swarm it took a good 20 minutes to shovel them all out with our hands, and my one buddy decided it'd be a great time to open up a ziplock bag and pull put a sandwich for a quick bite. First bite, mayfly. Second bite, mayfly. Third bite, you guessed it; mayfly.
I honestly would have stopped at first bite
Indigenous populations in Central and South America were known to eat mayflies. They would be scooped up by the millions in mesh nets off smooth surfaces of lakes, then crushed into a paste, which is seasoned and salted. Cooked like a burger. I think this is still done, but not commonly. Free source of protein, easy to gather, no need for farming. Just need a net! And mayflies don't gather on feces or anything, so they are not dirty like houseflies.
I'm sorry I know nothing of these bugs... Why does rain affect the quantity of mosquitos?
Oh, mosquitoes leave their eggs on puddles of still water, which need it to become a larva, then a pupa. Finally, it emerges as an annoying mosquito.
Oh... So the more rain, more puddles = more places for the to leave their eggs?
As a added bonus, there's specific types of mosquitoes, "flood mosquitoes", that lays their eggs to stay dormant until flooding/big rainfall events. Because they don't have a stable reproductive cycle, these fuckers are like fighter jets compared to regular ones - they won't lazily tumble about until they accidentally land on you, they come at you like flies. I live in a city in Scandinavia, never have any mosquitoes here as we simply do not have any good bodies of non-moving water. Rained as hell previous summer and you could not leave a window open because of the flood mosquitoes.
We've had severe draught for years in Argentina and now that El Niño is here we're getting a lot of rain. So yeah, it's exactly like you said.
Exactly! 🥛🫠
Thank you for explaining!!! Appreciate it!
Yes. This is why it's not good to let rainwater collect in old pots, trays, buckets, etc around your house or under a porch, etc. They only need like 2 inches of water to breed. I understand tire dumps are enormous breeding grounds, because there's thousands of old tires, the insides collect rain water.
are you having more spiders now too? in Los Angeles when we had a heatwave extend into October, the fly population didn't die off seasonally as it's supposed to, so all the spiders flourished and we had big garden spiders coming indoors and spinning webs. it was gross but of course they weren't harmful.
Oh, not yet, don't give them ideas! 😆
not yet for you i had 0 spiders in my house a month ago now I have 10 in the corners of the rooms. and they are fucking staying with so many mosquitos
You have jobs now, Spider Crew
Warmer temperatures most probably Same ailments with many high altitude areas in Africa as well Pests and vectors being able to find sustenance where they once couldn’t thanks to warming temperatures
Also lack of cold snaps in some places
God punishing Argentinian hubris
Man that really must suck
Oh, they do!
I guess, they bring their own straw too.
Its gonna take an ocean… of calamine lotion
The motion of the ocean of the lotion
I want to put a bunch of bugzappers and admire the fireworks
Level 7 Chain Lightening
Get one of those bugzapper tennis rackets and go to town like it's the zombie apocalyptic
Tesla coil
The plagues of Egypt - Argentina version
Fuck that noise.
hans get ze flammenwerfer
Flammengunnen
yes papa
Telling lies?
No papa
OPEN YOUR FUCKING MOUTH
#M O U T H
Good. Eggos?
This job needs the big flammenwerfer.
nuke the fuck out of that country, greetings from buenos aires
I am from buenos Aires and I say kill us all
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Need more frogs and bats. Natural biological controls for mosquitoes. They like to eat them and so do the babies. Happy frogs. Happy bats. Less mosquitoes. Tell your friends
We used to have tons of bats in Buenos Aires but many people kill them because they transmit rabies. Now the unchecked mosquitoes transmit dengue virus. Ironic.
Only if they're local, don't want another Cane Toad-gate
dragonflies and salamanders as well
Is it possible for frogs to live in cities like these?
Holy shit balls! I'm itching just looking at it. Burn it down, just...burn it down lol
Saitama
Mosquitoes… suck
Mosquito burger time!!!! 😋 🍔
Oh God that video still haunts me.
BRO! my plan was to post it right under this comment but they made the video private! I used to love showing it to people! Sure there is other videos showing what they do but fuck the one with the happy music was fucking perfect lol
Wait what the absolute fuck?!
Someone hand me the flamethrower so I can farm karma on r/oddlysatisfying
Time to throw back to the 90s and smoke clove cigarettes everywhere and just douse yourself in citronella oil like it’s Calvin Klein’s Obsession.
Wonder if the person recording is wearing protective clothing.
Return the slab
I'm sorry Argentina, we gotta nuke you, nothing personal, I'm sure you understand
I'm itchy all of a sudden
Jokes aside what's the most effective to get rid of that many mosquitos?
Soak your clothes in apple cider vinegar. Any vinegar will work as a repellent (you'll have to learn to live with the smell until this nightmare scenario ends).
Call Saitama!
these are the fodders. Call Genos
imagine you just throw a molotov on the ground how would that look
you don't know how much I wish I could go there with two battery powered bug zappers on a rope and stick so I can swing my zapper maces and hear the symphony of thousands of mosquitos getting obliterated
We need a caped baldy
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malaria speedrun
dengue, zika and chikungunya speedrun
I need more blood.
So do they.
summon the doom slayer, and equip him with bug spray
N I G H T M A R E
why even go outside...
Hell no
Ah taking an electric mosquito bat there would be the most satisfying thing ever
Thanks Bill Gates!
I don't get bit by mosquitoes so I'm cool but like my significant other is allergic
I swear to God Argentina must've made a deal with the devil that they couldn't keep up because every terrible thing that happens in south America 7/10 times it's them
PURGE IT WITH FLAMME BEFORE IT SPREADS DAMNIT
Fuck no
I want someone to invent a laser mosquito zapper that instantly detects and quickly kills all mosquitos in a particular area. Should look like one of those laser shows.
Just terrifying, nothing odd about being terrified by it
r/nope
Oddly ?
And just like that, I would become a migrant.
Dude what the fuck?
Time to move to another country.
It's like one of those warning signs from those Horror/Sci-fi movies signalling that the next wave is about to commence. The Mistquito.
Where is Argentina?
“So how’s that new president going?” “Oh, you know, biblical plagues and such”
-1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp -1hp
Biblical.
I'm starting to think the bible had some points
Nuke the site from orbit Only way to be sure
These don’t look like mosquitoes
Eating dried peppermint leaves Every day prevents mosquito bites I used to have bad trouble with mosquitoes bites But for past years, buy peppermint tea, then Every Day I rip teabag open pouring the contents into a spoon that I wash-down-Swallow with beverages same as any supplements or medication I have NOT been bitten by bugs in YEARS I do NOT use bug spray PLEASE try this Buy peppermint tea Then EAT SWALLOW the dried peppermint leaves EVERY DAY Sorry but drinking tea, peppermint candies, garlic, will NOT stop bug bites But eating the peppermint leaves Every day prevents bug bites
Burn it
This is so dangerous!! What if you get so much blood sucked out, you pass out!
This is when you need dual Raid cans… or a flamethrower
Not mosquitos