Giant stabbing mosquitoes poised to invade Florida
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Deadly sinkholes, giant Burmese pythons, and now giant mosquitoes? Well, if you live in the Sunshine State this may be your past, present and future.
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After Tropical Storm Debby struck Florida last summer the winged vampires, which pack a ferocious bite, and are nicknamed gallinippers, are poised to swoop down in biblical numbers on Florida’s unsuspecting residents and tourists, especially after what is expected to be a very wet rainy season reports LiveScience.
The legendary gallinipper is roughly 20-30 times the size of the already large giant Florida mosquitoes, and “it’s mean and goes after people, and it bites, and it hurts,” says Anthony Pelaez of Tampa’s Museum of Science and Industry. A gallinipper bite it turns out “feels like you’re being stabbed.” What makes matters much worse is the nasty little critters are totally resistant to bug spray, and like to attack pets, fish, wild animals, and anything else containing blood. Just like a vampire.
For our trivia fans: Entomologists don’t always recognize the term “gallinipper,” which arose in Southern folk culture. But the hellish insect’s very first mention dates back to 1897, when a writer called it “the shyest, slyest, meanest and most venomous of them all.” It seems Florida folks are soon going to find out if that’s really true.
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I was once bitten by a mosquito whilst holidaying in Malta. It died of alcoholic poisoning.
LOL. They just don’t bother me Norman, for the same reason. One bites, dies, and with its dying breath warns the others: Johnny Walker….Johnny Walker….
The “no see-ums” are pretty bad too. You think you’re safe and suddenly are swarmed by them. What they lack in size, they compensate for by numbers and voracity.
I did hear a nice story about the Alaskan mosquitoes, though.
A tourist was camping out in Alaska one July evening. He overheard two mosquitoes discussing him.
M1 “Should we eat him here or drag him outside?”
M2 ” Better eat him in here. If we take him outside, the big ones will just take him away from us.”
Ha ha James! What fun we’re having today at “MMA.” As to giant mosquitoes, I’ve spent time in Florida, and Alaska, and the latter’s mosquitoes are just as you playfully describe.