FL - Quarter-sized gallinippers to invade Sunshine State, entomologists predict

[JustJudy]

JusticeForever! Noticed yours was post #100!! Godot will get an award for sure...but we may need to solicit a volunteer to go up & rap on his door to tell him.

 

[Justiceforever]

JusticeForever! Noticed yours was post #100!! Godot will get an award for sure...but we may need to solicit a volunteer to go up & rap on his door to tell him.

Done. He's such a great thread starter.

 

[Gypsy Road]

A meme? You mean like this one?

:thud:


why?

WHY?!!!

 

[Gypsy Road]

OMG! YOu poor thing!

Did it hurt more than a regular mosquito bite? Does it itch?

I think I'm going to live....but it really shocked me how much it stung! I jumped and let out a scream! It was like being pricked by a large and very sharp sewing needle! It didn't swell up at all, but it got me in a weird place - on the very tip of my pointer finger on my left hand where I have had major callouses for the past 30+ years from being a guitar player. I mean...I didn't think I had any feeling left there in the tips of my fingers, but dayum...I do! Those things must bite DEEP! I can still feel where it got me hours later!

 

[JustJudy]

Done. He's such a great thread starter.

Awesome! Unless he's disavowed parentage to this thread. :scared:

 

[JustJudy]

I think I'm going to live....but it really shocked me how much it stung! I jumped and let out a scream! It was like being pricked by a large and very sharp sewing needle! It didn't swell up at all, but it got me in a weird place - on the very tip of my pointer finger on my left hand where I have had major callouses for the past 30+ years from being a guitar player. I mean...I didn't think I had any feeling left there in the tips of my fingers, but dayum...I do! Those things must bite DEEP! I can still feel where it got me hours later!

...after seeing your experience, I read G's article more closely & others. My skin is crawling...those things don't mess around!Take care of yourself & feel better soon. Jeez, they even bite pets!

"Mega mosquitoes, whose bites 'feels like getting stabbed,' are scheduled to invade Florida...called gallinippers or even "hairy-legged zebras," are about 20 times the size of a normal mosquito.

...can penetrate through multiple layers of clothing and will bite anything from people to pets; they've even been known to feed on fish and tadpoles.

...They feed day and night, using a saw-like jaw to drill down into a target's skin. The pain associated with a mosquito bite happens when the mosquito withdraws its straw-like jaw -- ...'like pulling a hook out of the skin.'"

http://www.isciencetimes.com/articl...uitoes-why-gallinipper-bites-feel-getting.htm

 

[Justiceforever]

I was searching online for strange animals for another thread Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community and I came upon this! It's the grasshopper thatwas in my bed! Just kidding, it wasn' t really that big but that's how I saw it!