• njm1314@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 hours ago

    Why do they have tits? Like I know they’re trying to show they are female, although anyone who knows anything about mosquitoes should already know that, but tits? They need to put them on mosquitoes?

  • ook@discuss.tchncs.de
    581·
    1 day ago

    Interesting choice to give them boobs. Not that the average reader cares that its only female mosquitoes that bite.

        • CustardFist@feddit.nlOPEnglish
          112·
          19 hours ago

          Please don’t. I’ll tell you.
          Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood for getting the protein they need for producing eggs.
          Hence the boobs under the skin tight sweaters.

          • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceEnglish
            5·
            13 hours ago

            it’s okay, I was actually going to do the alcoholic existential crisis anyway 👈😎👈 but now I have the true mosquitoe tiddy lore in addition to that so it’s a win/win/win

    • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      8·
      20 hours ago

      I ask myself that everytime I watch One Punch Man and reach episode 2

      The Japanese are not afraid to give a mosquito monster tits and ass and sexy camera pans lol

      • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceEnglish
        1·
        20 hours ago

        hmm yeah that was telegraphing the media that it was parodying. maybe this is too. maybe there’s a particular boomer comic that has ridiculous animals with tits and I’m just not getting the reference

  • grandma@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    19 hours ago

    Try putting a spoon under hot water and pressing it on a recent bite, idk how it works but it’s incredibly effective.

    • CustardFist@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      8·
      22 hours ago

      Yes. I would happily punch myself in the nose and bleed into a cup if they would stop making me punch myself in the ear several times a night. 😤

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    91·
    23 hours ago

    and keep me awake

    • The artist, Richard Klos, appears to be Dutch. One convention that I understand to be common in the US and uncommon in Europe is the use of screens on windows. The US used to have some serious tropical disease problems that didn’t exist in Europe, and window screens became a norm in the US to deal with that.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_screen

      By the 1950s, malaria was largely eradicated in the United States due to the widespread use of window screens.[3] Today many houses in Australia, the United States and Canada have screens on operable windows.[4]

      While mosquito-borne malaria isn’t a problem in Europe today, screens will still work to keep mosquitoes-as-an-annoyance out.

    • That’s probably sufficient, but if you want a second line of defense or don’t want window screens, in some places, like Africa, that still have tropical disease issues, use of mosquito netting over beds is used.

    https://www.amazon.com/Sublaga-Mosquito-Hanging-Installation-Decorative/dp/B0BZV3T8TG

    1000009228

    • Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world
      9·
      22 hours ago

      TIL. That’s nuts to me that opening windows is way more common in Europe but they’re just fine with bugs coming and going in their houses.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        52·
        21 hours ago

        I suspect, from past conversations, that some of it is that when you design a house to be used without screens, then retrofitting screens isn’t optimal. Like, say you have a window of X area. The screen blocks, say, 30% of light that would go through. If you then put a screen on the window, then you have only 70% of the light that you normally would. That may well be darker than you want. If you design a house with the intention of screen use and want light from windows, you’re going to make the windows 130% the area you normally would.

        That creates some inertia.

    • ladicius@lemmy.world
      6·
      21 hours ago

      As a citizen of EU living in absolute peace behind bug screens on every window I can assure you that the better informed parts of this continent are able to apply working solutions.