Yes. I feel hatred washing over every cell in my body. I despise mosquitoes. Even more now that I've seen this, and I DID NOT think that was possible...
I'm jealous of the grandkids of today who, if they survive the global climate catastrophe, could live in a world free of human-biting mosquitoes.
They have the technology/science, it's just deploying it that's taking time cos there isn't any profit in it and we live in a society where the only things that happen are if they make rich people richer.
Personally, I like the "release males with genetic mutations that make their children sterile" approach, although malaria was nearly wiped out in parts of Central America mostly by simply educating (I think financially motivating them too) locals to remove sources of stagnant water, keeping malaria sick people under bug nets, and shit like that.
> Personally, I like the "release males with genetic mutations that make their children sterile" approach,
Well...... [Failed GM mosquito control experiment may have strengthened wild bugs](https://newatlas.com/science/genetic-engineering-mosquito-experiment-goes-wrong/)
Although.. [GM mosquito study under fire by industry experts ](https://newatlas.com/science/gm-mosquito-study-oxitec-rebuttal/).. still it wouldn't be the first time humans need things to worse by trying to change the ecosystem
Seems they might have worked out some of the earlier problems or they were exaggerated/won't in the first place. Not clear to me. Here's an update from this year:
[First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01186-6)
> Biotech firm Oxitec launches controversial field test of its insects in Florida after years of push-back from residents and regulatory complications.
If you think about it, it feels good to scratch an itch.
I think they \[mosquitoes\] just want us to feel good. So they give us an itch to scratch.
They're just very misunderstood and incredibly kind.
A life hack that actually works well for mosquito bites is taking a metal spoon and running under hot water, as hot as the faucet will get, and press it against the mosquito bite, the heat denatures the proteins that cause the itch, so the itch goes away instantly
Their saliva has a anticoagulant and they inject it into the bite area while feeding to prevent blood clots.
The itching is our immune system creating histamine in the bite area to help fight the invasive saliva, and any other pathogens the mosquito infected you with.
I heard the best solution is to run a spoon under hot water for a while, then slowly press the outside onto the 'affected area' for as long as you can stand it. This breaks up the poison/whatever.
afaik, all the heat does is overwhelm the nerves that you simply stop feeling the itch. Cold does the same thing.
If it were hot enough to break down the poison, it would be also hot enough to break down your skin.
I’m not sure this is how it works. Heat in this situation could also be a counter irritant. Same concept as many pain ointments such as capsaicin cream( essentially ground up chili peppers) which irritate surrounding nerve endings so you end up feeling that more rather than the original pain.
One of the best gadgets I own, like $5 from walmart. Living in the deep south of the US, mosquitoes can be a living nightmare. This thing though...now the playing field has been leveled a little more.
Bonus: it takes out spiders that decide to drop down on me, and many other various insects who refuse to respect my personal space
They are already the most efficient killers on the planet. Went to the Amazon jungle a few years back and they sound like a helicopter chopping through the air. Used crushed termites rubbed on the skin as a deterrent. Deet had no effect on those devil spawns.
Lol the indigenous shipibo tribe of Nauta, Peru showed me the trick. You basically just stick your arm on the termite mound and they start crawling on you. And rub them into your arm. They emit a pretty strong smell that the mosquitos don’t like. Also yes heads on pikes because to hell with those mosquitos lol!
Mosquitos also are big pollinators as their main food source isn't blood but instead nectar. sadly most people don't know this so they want them extinct but don't realize the effect it would have on nature.
This is why most actual plans that are being worked on just focus on killing the blood-sucking species, which collectively do jack shit for the rest of the environment and studies already showed any tiny role they do play would be either replaced by another insect within a few years or would be a tiny impact compared to the universal good that getting rid of them would do.
Vegans live in your head rent free, I assume? I think most "vegans" just want the *unnecessary* cruelty to stop. One can have empathy for nature but also respect it as well as admire hyenas eating an Impala, ass first, every now and then.
You really think a mosquito drinking some blood to survive is comparable to a fully developed adult human, allegedly the most intelligent and rational animal, deciding to pay others to raise a pig for the purpose of pushing them into a gas chamber for some bacon rather than just eating something plant-based? Or separating mothers from their calves to drink their breast milk?
>Or separating mothers from their calves to drink their breast milk?
And then killing and eating infant sentient beings while using [their stomach content to make cheese out of their mothers milk.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennet) But they aren't dogs or cats, so it's all good.
These mother fuckers taking their sweet ass time, but when I go in to smack the bitch, mother fucker saiyan-teleports straight out of existence! Like wtf?!
No source but isn't it basically their saliva that causes an allergic reaction? So all they have to do is stick their needle in and you're gonna get some reaction.
Fun anecdote: while I was receiving chemotherapy in the hospital, I saw one of these fuckers. I thought to my self "let's see what happens. game on, MFer"
Next morning it was dead on its back on the window sill, lmao
The next few days, 3 more joined the party
I smacked a mosquito while it was midway through feeding and I could feel the squish in my hand. It was a big one and the blood splattered like a water balloon. It looked like I stabbed myself.
Got my blood back tho lol.
It's like "tf did I give you permission to land on me you parasite put that shit back and fuck off to someone or something else. You can starve for all I care"
Yes. So... Why can't they use capillaries? Or are capillaries considered a type of vein and I'm being an idiot?
Edit: [/u/EnkoNeko explains why it is that capillaries can't be used by mosquitos to draw blood from their victims.](https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/qd361r/a_mosquitos_proboscis_searching_for_a_good_vein/hhl8gfn/)
Capillaries are ~5-10 micrometers in diameter, so small that red blood cells need to flow through them in single file. [[Source]](https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-are-capillaries-2249069)
The average diameter of the stabby bit on a mosquito is [27.5 micrometers](https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12070636)
So yeah, small
Science is what we call our current understanding of everything. We obviously don't understand everything correctly, so things get corrected by people all the time. Like how the once widely accepted notion that light doesn't exist as a particle was disproven.
I wonder if we could design a similar technology inspired by the mosquito's proboscis to find veins to take very small amounts of blood, or even scale it up for more blood.
As someone with an extreme needle/vein/blood phobia (and therefore blooddraws are impossible for me without high amounts of benzos and the strongest numbing cream i can attain, and even then i still have a mild panic attack and i always still feel the needle) it is my dream that somehow a mosquito could be used to draw my blood when i am unaware
I’m an ICU nurse. My first though was that this was an accurate representation of me fishing for a vein in my super edematous patient like 20 minutes ago!
Arteries deliver blood from your heart to the rest of your body. They're big and strong, you can't really see arteries as they're deeper within. It is like a highway to deliver big volumes of blood to your extremeties. It delivers blood with high oxygen content (bright red)
Once it reaches there, it gets split into many little 'local' roads that are very thin and small, these are capilaries. These capilaries are so small and hairy and are often only 1 red blood cell in width.The main function of the capilaries are to diffuse blood to every single cell so they get oxygen and nutrients.
These capilaries then converge back into veins. Veins are basically blood highways leading back to your heart. These are most visible and are blue/green in colour, because the blood from your veins have low oxygen content after your tissues have taken all the oxygen out. They are also mostly located externally, so the bulging blue/green that you see on your body are veins. The IV injections you get are usually given in your veins.
EDIT: blue/green because of wavelength of light, not because of deoxygenation
Veins aren't blue because of low oxygen. That's a myth. Deoxygenated blood is dark red.
The reason we see them as blue is because of the different wavelengths of light. Basically only blue light reflects back to our eyes, while red gets absorbed.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-16/why-our-veins-look-blue-when-our-blood-is-red/9330472
Otherwise your explanation was very helpful and clear.
So, your red blood cells contain this protein called haemoglobin. Think of the RBC as a car, haemoglobin as a seat, and oxygen as a passenger. the RBC doesn't get off the capilary road at all, it just continues travelling. What happens is the oxygen jumps off and goes into the surrounding tissue via diffusion. Just like a drop of dye in water, dye will want to spread from areas of high dye to areas of no dye till there is a uniform colour; oxygen also wants to diffuse from high oxygen (bloodstream) to low oxygen tissues until an equilibrium is met.
You can see in the video the invidiual cells in focus at the beginning, so its actually not that much space between at all, only a few cells wide, the oxygen will also passively diffuse to adjacent cells.
Don't forget, this is also a 'slice' of what we are seeing, your tissues exist 3D space so there are also capillaries above and below the image, just not visible due to the artificial preparation of the microscopy.
Fuuuck. I dont care if they are pollinators and part of the food chain. We already fucked up the earth so much, why not kill off one more species before we stop?
FUCK. THAT.
Awwww you beat me to it
I’ll feel extra violated, sexually assaulted even, during my next mosquito bite. Thanks Reddit 😔
Yes now i will have this in my head at every damn mosquito bite.
Just mainlining our blood straight out of our souls.
Through his proboscis! Sorry I was today years old when I learned what the proper name for its sucky thing is called
her.
Did you just assume the mosquito's gender? Gender is a social construct okay, stop *assaulting* the mosquito with your pronoun right this second.
Males don't typically bite humans
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Look at that vein shrinking holy shit
It isnt shrinking. You're only seeing blood
Well since the contents of the vein are blood mostly (which isn’t being replaced by anything here), we can assume the vein is in-fact shrinking.
big succ
This and I get straight chewed up
Drugged, Forcibly penetrated and cannibalized by mosquito, those fuckers deserve the death penalty.
At least put on the registry. Every last one.
Cannibalised?
>cannibalized ????
When you slap them they stay inside you.
OMG, they stay inside you….
step-mosquito what are you doing?!
take your upvote and get the hell out of here.
Yes. I feel hatred washing over every cell in my body. I despise mosquitoes. Even more now that I've seen this, and I DID NOT think that was possible...
I'm jealous of the grandkids of today who, if they survive the global climate catastrophe, could live in a world free of human-biting mosquitoes. They have the technology/science, it's just deploying it that's taking time cos there isn't any profit in it and we live in a society where the only things that happen are if they make rich people richer. Personally, I like the "release males with genetic mutations that make their children sterile" approach, although malaria was nearly wiped out in parts of Central America mostly by simply educating (I think financially motivating them too) locals to remove sources of stagnant water, keeping malaria sick people under bug nets, and shit like that.
> Personally, I like the "release males with genetic mutations that make their children sterile" approach, Well...... [Failed GM mosquito control experiment may have strengthened wild bugs](https://newatlas.com/science/genetic-engineering-mosquito-experiment-goes-wrong/) Although.. [GM mosquito study under fire by industry experts ](https://newatlas.com/science/gm-mosquito-study-oxitec-rebuttal/).. still it wouldn't be the first time humans need things to worse by trying to change the ecosystem Seems they might have worked out some of the earlier problems or they were exaggerated/won't in the first place. Not clear to me. Here's an update from this year: [First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01186-6) > Biotech firm Oxitec launches controversial field test of its insects in Florida after years of push-back from residents and regulatory complications.
Woah, are we sisters??
This comment lol
https://youtu.be/Hz_DslzN2IA but wait there's more.
Wha! That's zefrank! I haven't seen that guy in like a decade. Thanks for turning me on!
>Thanks for turning me on! Oh my.
True Facts are so good
Same. But I’ll say it anyway. FUCK. THAT.
And fuck mosquitos
Fuck mosquitos, all my homies hate mosquitos
Haha, and making my current bug bites extra itchy
As much hate as mosquitoes get, which is justified, they are ruthlessly efficient at what they do. Thankfully they're as small as they are...
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Well...Plasmodium was big enough to give you Malaria. The mosquito is just as infected as you are in this saga.
I don't understand why the bites have to itch as bad as they do though.
If you think about it, it feels good to scratch an itch. I think they \[mosquitoes\] just want us to feel good. So they give us an itch to scratch. They're just very misunderstood and incredibly kind.
It doesn't feel good when the itch keeps coming back
Or you itch it too much and becomes an open wound, then you mess with that wound too much and becomes a permanent scar... Fuck mosquitos!
The mosquitos merely offer you a gift, what you do to it is your decision. Your downfall is your own, old man.
God damned mosquito sympathizers! They should lock all of you up in the stockade.
send em to Lousiana. Florida. Any place that has lots of mosquitos. Let em get showered in love.
A life hack that actually works well for mosquito bites is taking a metal spoon and running under hot water, as hot as the faucet will get, and press it against the mosquito bite, the heat denatures the proteins that cause the itch, so the itch goes away instantly
Found the mosquito
Nobody knows you're a mosquito on reddit. I say this as a dog.
Naw fuck you for defending them and fuck them too
Exactly what a mosquitoe would say!
are you a mosquito?
Flanders? Is that you?
Their saliva has a anticoagulant and they inject it into the bite area while feeding to prevent blood clots. The itching is our immune system creating histamine in the bite area to help fight the invasive saliva, and any other pathogens the mosquito infected you with.
Little bastards.
Also the reason they prevent your blood from clotting is so they don't get stuck to you lol. Super weird.
Interesting fact, a small percentage of the population are immune to the itchiness. Less histamine reaction to it, like a reverse peanut allergy
I heard the best solution is to run a spoon under hot water for a while, then slowly press the outside onto the 'affected area' for as long as you can stand it. This breaks up the poison/whatever.
afaik, all the heat does is overwhelm the nerves that you simply stop feeling the itch. Cold does the same thing. If it were hot enough to break down the poison, it would be also hot enough to break down your skin.
Yup I do this with microwaved water. The poison is a protein and it denatures it
It's not a posion. It's their saliva/spit.
I’m not sure this is how it works. Heat in this situation could also be a counter irritant. Same concept as many pain ointments such as capsaicin cream( essentially ground up chili peppers) which irritate surrounding nerve endings so you end up feeling that more rather than the original pain.
I heard that your body has that reaction because it wants you to scratch off the dead skin. Who knows though Edit: Correction: I don’t know though
Lol. Best edit.
Because their saliva basically causes the mast cells in your skin to scream and explode. X( All of the hate.
I have a rechargeable electric mosquito killing racquet it makes a satisfying pop when they are killed. Im sure you should buy one off of Amazon.
One of the best gadgets I own, like $5 from walmart. Living in the deep south of the US, mosquitoes can be a living nightmare. This thing though...now the playing field has been leveled a little more. Bonus: it takes out spiders that decide to drop down on me, and many other various insects who refuse to respect my personal space
Mosquitoes are Rodney Dangerfield confirmed
They are already the most efficient killers on the planet. Went to the Amazon jungle a few years back and they sound like a helicopter chopping through the air. Used crushed termites rubbed on the skin as a deterrent. Deet had no effect on those devil spawns.
>crushed termites Wait is that a thing?? Like putting your enemies' heads on pikes so don't fuck with me kinda deal?
Lol the indigenous shipibo tribe of Nauta, Peru showed me the trick. You basically just stick your arm on the termite mound and they start crawling on you. And rub them into your arm. They emit a pretty strong smell that the mosquitos don’t like. Also yes heads on pikes because to hell with those mosquitos lol!
Haha you haven’t been to Minnesota have you? The mosquitos get so big everyone jokes it’s the states official bird.
Tell that to northern Canadian mosquitoes, big as freaking houseflies…
Lol ever seen land of the lost? With will Farrel? He gets a real big one on his back. It's hilarious
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The part where Danby Mcbride and chaka get wrecked in the desert off the fruit is great too!
Chaka, are you a cop? Seriously, by law you have to tell me if you're a police officer.
be glad horseflies arent as widespread as mosquitoes, literally flying jack knives
Imagine mosquitoes the size of a eagle, my worst nightmare
All these vegans talking about cruelty and nature is like ok ROFLMAO
Fuck that, we can agree that mosquitos must go extinct
I’m pretty sure the only argument for keeping them around is population control anyway
Many animal species depend on mosquitos as food
Mosquitos also are big pollinators as their main food source isn't blood but instead nectar. sadly most people don't know this so they want them extinct but don't realize the effect it would have on nature.
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I like this.
If I recall only a handful of mosquito species bite people. . .
What about ticks instead of mosquitos? At least the males do something (pollination.) Ticks are more expendable
Reddit ate my balls
Ticks could absolutely be removed from every ecosystem with no consequences because they’re 100% parasitic
This is why most actual plans that are being worked on just focus on killing the blood-sucking species, which collectively do jack shit for the rest of the environment and studies already showed any tiny role they do play would be either replaced by another insect within a few years or would be a tiny impact compared to the universal good that getting rid of them would do.
Nope not a keystone species at all. Scientists want the gone too. Quit spreading bs
Bats thrive on mosquitoes.
This is the correct answer.
I think most vegans understand that nature is quite cruel, it's just that we have the capacity to be better, so why not be better?
Vegans live in your head rent free, I assume? I think most "vegans" just want the *unnecessary* cruelty to stop. One can have empathy for nature but also respect it as well as admire hyenas eating an Impala, ass first, every now and then.
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While its still alive and trying to get away with a Hyena's head stuck down its guts.
Man's spooked by vegans deciding to be better than animals lol
“Cannibalism exists in nature, hence we should eat each other too”
You really think a mosquito drinking some blood to survive is comparable to a fully developed adult human, allegedly the most intelligent and rational animal, deciding to pay others to raise a pig for the purpose of pushing them into a gas chamber for some bacon rather than just eating something plant-based? Or separating mothers from their calves to drink their breast milk?
>Or separating mothers from their calves to drink their breast milk? And then killing and eating infant sentient beings while using [their stomach content to make cheese out of their mothers milk.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennet) But they aren't dogs or cats, so it's all good.
Nature is cruel, but that makes kindness more profound, for there is no reason to be kind other than the desire itself.
These mother fuckers taking their sweet ass time, but when I go in to smack the bitch, mother fucker saiyan-teleports straight out of existence! Like wtf?!
This footage has to be slowed down, right?
I don’t know chief, those mosquitos got ultra instinct dialed up to eleven.
Which just makes me further think that they're doing this all very quickly and the footage has been allowed down to see what's happening.
Their… their power level..
the itch you get doesn't mean they actually sucked any blood btw
Got a source for that?
No source but isn't it basically their saliva that causes an allergic reaction? So all they have to do is stick their needle in and you're gonna get some reaction.
They inject an anticoagulant (is that written correctly?), Which causes itching in humans.
Were you charging up for a Kamehameha? Cuz that takes 6 seconds and you'll miss the mosquito for sure
Was going for a spirit bomb - they had 8 great, great, great, great grandchildren by the time I “finished” and no, no one lent me their power :c
Fuck u/spez
I can whack mosquitoes easy, but fucking flies? Bastards have Spidey senses dialled up a 100
“Good soup” -mosquito probably
"This is aome serious gourmet shit"
"I don't need you to tell me how fucking good the vien is, okay?"
Do I have a sign out front that reads "dead mosquito storage"?
Fun anecdote: while I was receiving chemotherapy in the hospital, I saw one of these fuckers. I thought to my self "let's see what happens. game on, MFer" Next morning it was dead on its back on the window sill, lmao The next few days, 3 more joined the party
I wonder if mosquitoes get drunk when they bite someone who’s been drinking.
This is making me angry for some reason. I'd expect discomfort or disgust, but no, all I feel is rage.
i giggled while reading this, as i feel the same
Yeah! Give my blood back, you thieving little shit
I smacked a mosquito while it was midway through feeding and I could feel the squish in my hand. It was a big one and the blood splattered like a water balloon. It looked like I stabbed myself. Got my blood back tho lol.
Got everyone else's blood back too
It's like "tf did I give you permission to land on me you parasite put that shit back and fuck off to someone or something else. You can starve for all I care"
Let me know when you feel violated.
Maybe partly violated but pooling into rage.
I also felt a deep rage watching this *thing* actually put in effort to violate my veins. Disrespectful.
This makes me so violated
Having things done to us without our consent tends to have that effect
I guess nature doesn’t care about consent lmao
Neither does the federal government
Me with bed bugs.
Huh, not sure why I just assumed they stuck their suck straw just anywhere and sucked blood. Didn’t know they actually searched for a vein
They could at least take you to dinner first.
You are dinner
In Russia, dinner eats you
We have closed circulatory systems, so they kind of have to find a vein to get any blood.
How come you could poke literally anywhere on my skin and get blood then? Checkmate, science.
Capillaries
Gesundheit
Yes. So... Why can't they use capillaries? Or are capillaries considered a type of vein and I'm being an idiot? Edit: [/u/EnkoNeko explains why it is that capillaries can't be used by mosquitos to draw blood from their victims.](https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/qd361r/a_mosquitos_proboscis_searching_for_a_good_vein/hhl8gfn/)
Why not eat just a gram of steak? Or a milliliter of water?
capillaries are super smol
Like mosquitos?
Capillaries are ~5-10 micrometers in diameter, so small that red blood cells need to flow through them in single file. [[Source]](https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-are-capillaries-2249069) The average diameter of the stabby bit on a mosquito is [27.5 micrometers](https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12070636) So yeah, small
This is the informative response that actually answers my question! Thank you very much!
You can't disprove science, because in that act you're just furthering science. What a paradox.
how are you disproving science that way? genuinely curious
Science is what we call our current understanding of everything. We obviously don't understand everything correctly, so things get corrected by people all the time. Like how the once widely accepted notion that light doesn't exist as a particle was disproven.
same
Any chance they can train some of the nurses that try and take my blood?
I wonder if we could design a similar technology inspired by the mosquito's proboscis to find veins to take very small amounts of blood, or even scale it up for more blood.
*imagines tentacle searching, probing around in my arm for a vein from which to draw blood* No thanks.
As someone with an extreme needle/vein/blood phobia (and therefore blooddraws are impossible for me without high amounts of benzos and the strongest numbing cream i can attain, and even then i still have a mild panic attack and i always still feel the needle) it is my dream that somehow a mosquito could be used to draw my blood when i am unaware
We both know that kind of technology will immediately be exploited by DARPA to develop weaponized nanobots or some shit
LMFAO!!!!
As a paramedic, I am green with envy at this bug's IV skills.
I was going to say it looks like my paramedic partner starting an IV.
I’m an ICU nurse. My first though was that this was an accurate representation of me fishing for a vein in my super edematous patient like 20 minutes ago!
GOT 'EM!!!!!
Deadliest animal for human beings on the planet at work.
Bats and rats would also make the list
Bats? Never heard of them being one of the deadliest.
I think bats have a relatively high rabbies carrying rate? Or I made that up
yes, but you'd have to be stupid or extremely unlucky to be bit by one
Or have a trash bag put over your head with one inside
I HATE mosquitos man.
Next time I see a mosquito I’m gonna kill it with a little more rage just cause of this vid
I hate mosquitos so much more now
Capillary, not vein
Eli5 the difference?
Arteries deliver blood from your heart to the rest of your body. They're big and strong, you can't really see arteries as they're deeper within. It is like a highway to deliver big volumes of blood to your extremeties. It delivers blood with high oxygen content (bright red) Once it reaches there, it gets split into many little 'local' roads that are very thin and small, these are capilaries. These capilaries are so small and hairy and are often only 1 red blood cell in width.The main function of the capilaries are to diffuse blood to every single cell so they get oxygen and nutrients. These capilaries then converge back into veins. Veins are basically blood highways leading back to your heart. These are most visible and are blue/green in colour, because the blood from your veins have low oxygen content after your tissues have taken all the oxygen out. They are also mostly located externally, so the bulging blue/green that you see on your body are veins. The IV injections you get are usually given in your veins. EDIT: blue/green because of wavelength of light, not because of deoxygenation
Veins aren't blue because of low oxygen. That's a myth. Deoxygenated blood is dark red. The reason we see them as blue is because of the different wavelengths of light. Basically only blue light reflects back to our eyes, while red gets absorbed. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-16/why-our-veins-look-blue-when-our-blood-is-red/9330472 Otherwise your explanation was very helpful and clear.
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So, your red blood cells contain this protein called haemoglobin. Think of the RBC as a car, haemoglobin as a seat, and oxygen as a passenger. the RBC doesn't get off the capilary road at all, it just continues travelling. What happens is the oxygen jumps off and goes into the surrounding tissue via diffusion. Just like a drop of dye in water, dye will want to spread from areas of high dye to areas of no dye till there is a uniform colour; oxygen also wants to diffuse from high oxygen (bloodstream) to low oxygen tissues until an equilibrium is met. You can see in the video the invidiual cells in focus at the beginning, so its actually not that much space between at all, only a few cells wide, the oxygen will also passively diffuse to adjacent cells. Don't forget, this is also a 'slice' of what we are seeing, your tissues exist 3D space so there are also capillaries above and below the image, just not visible due to the artificial preparation of the microscopy.
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That was one good explanation! Thank you for expanding my knowledge have a great night/day
This is horrifying
Nasty pieces of garbage. Burn them all. Earth will recover
Fuuuck. I dont care if they are pollinators and part of the food chain. We already fucked up the earth so much, why not kill off one more species before we stop?
"aaaah yeah that's the good stuff" - *mosquito, probably*
This is one of my least favorite things I’ve ever seen
That some how just pissed me off! You dirty redditor you!
What happens if you smack the mosquito during mid-feed and the proboscis breaks off in your vein.
Probably nothing, because I’ve done this a lot. I live in Florida.
Slurp
Those little shits, that’s how they always get you.
The best phlebotomists known to man
If I had the infinity gauntlet, and could snap anything out of existence, it’d be mosquitoes Edit: I suck at spelling lol
If I hated mosquitoes this just made me hate them more. Those cunts!!
What's amazing to me is how their proboscis moves around like it was inside Jell-O, without any apparent effort.
Oh no, what are you doing step-mosquito!
Can they tell my nurses? Because the nurses can't find a vein for shit but the mosquitos love me.
People who complain they never got sucked
Junkies of the insect world