r/AbsoluteUnits • u/mando_jango_mango • 1d ago

of a mosquito caught alive in Southern Thailand

They’re about two times bigger than what you get in Bangkok.

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u/_axeman_ 1d ago

In Canada this is normal size

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u/Rude_Comment_6395 1d ago

Small, even

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u/Manburpigg 1d ago

Lived in Alaska for 6 years, can confirm our state bird was a mosquito the size of your hand

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u/StephensSurrealSouls 1d ago

I sure hope you’re misidentifying a crane fly…

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u/RyanSmokinBluntz420 4h ago

It is the state bird

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u/TheRealRickC137 1d ago

As a Canadian, I'm:

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u/Prestigious_Oil_4805 1d ago

Wait until op meet a male one

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u/OlyGator 1d ago

This seems like a very tiny mosquito.

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u/vertigo1083 1d ago

Bruh I have mosquitos here that have to register with the goddamn FAA.

This is an embarrassment of a submission

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u/Sandscarab 1d ago

Are you in Minnesota?

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u/Tojinaru 1d ago

This is pretty normal size

It is big but not extreme

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u/top_of_the_scrote 18h ago

Why she gotta downplay me like that

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u/NaNaNaNaNa86 39m ago

I've seen bigger feasting on me in Africa and SE Asia. Speaking of SE Asia (Thailand), I checked into my hotel last time, walked out onto the balcony and had a Asian Giant Hornet welcoming committee. I didn't open that fucking veranda door again in the weeks that followed. I genuinely thought they were humming birds initially, then I shit myself shortly after when I realised that aint no birds.

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u/WildResident2816 1d ago

Doesn’t look like a big one anywhere I’ve been in Mozzy season, which covers about 4 continents and 20+ countries…

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u/jeffbrock 1d ago

Record scratch….Mosquito: “Yeah, that’s me… you are probably wondering…”

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u/surgesubs 1d ago

It looks like it's thinking on how it's gonna get out alive lol

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u/flyinhawaiian02 1d ago

Need banana for scale

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u/Dapper-Resolution109 1d ago

HAHAHAHAHA that's a bitch of a mosquito. Come to Florida where that's on the small side. We have some striped mosquitos that would shock and amaze

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u/radraze2kx 7h ago

In Texas, they have the striped ones and the small brown ones. You can feel the striped ones land, which is convenient, but the brown ones bite over and over without you even realizing they're there. Fuck all mosquitos.

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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 1d ago

Normal mosquito in a lot of trouble

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u/Sea_Connection2773 1d ago

This isn't a mosquito, it is a mosco

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u/CranberryFlaky1464 1d ago

Let it go bro. Atleast think about its wife and children

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u/Positive_Raspberry85 1d ago

Only female mosquitos can bite. So you should say its husband and children

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u/CranberryFlaky1464 1d ago edited 1d ago

Dude, it's a lesbian. Its child is adopted

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u/1dontnoymhere 1d ago

Do you think they care about ours! they deserve it

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u/bernpfenn 1d ago

did you leave it alive? I need to know it's fate...

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u/mando_jango_mango 1d ago

I left it on a table to reflect on what he did to deserve his fate…😄😄😄

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u/GarGaunch789 1d ago

These guys really know how to ruin a tropical vacation 🏝️🪰🦟😖

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u/Illustrious-Cat7767 16h ago

Are you from the US? I’m just curious.

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u/gordonv 1d ago

Are you guys comparing "full" mosquitos to empty ones?

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u/Sahedron 1d ago

Absolute zoom

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u/Cadillacwalt 1d ago

Sever it's head and send it to its friends

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u/LiveRhubarb43 1d ago

That's not that big

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u/immoralsugimoto 1d ago

Snip one of its wings and the end of its proboscis

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u/Azzhole169 1d ago

That’s a cute little fella, baby size compared to mosquitoes in the upper Midwest.

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u/Mun0425 1d ago

Oh boy… take a trip to north mississippi in september

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u/OhMy-Really 1d ago

My boy goes to me today. “You know dad, a mosquito can fly, but a fly cant mosquito…”

:)

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u/GlorifiedBurito 1d ago

In Minnesota they’ve got mosquitoes that could take off with a small dog if they had a mind to

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u/Dmau27 1d ago

Come to the Midwest. You have trouble differentiating them from night wasps.

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u/Ok-Double-414 1d ago

With strip’s =tiger mosquito?

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u/DaArio_007 1d ago

Do you live under a rock?

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u/kenjinyc 21h ago

Can’t say I didn’t see any huge ones when I was in Thailand but at dusk, you see a dark cloud coming toward you, get out of dodge. I literally ran from an open air lobby to my room. Millions.

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u/gatling_arbalest 19h ago

Finally, El Mosco

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u/RiceRi0t 13h ago

Kill that mf

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u/System_Is_Rigged 7h ago

Being in Alaska I was confused what this video was about, thinking why are they impressed they caught a mosquito? Then I saw what sub I'm in. 😭

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u/Potatofacemcturtle 6h ago

Buddy in winnipeg the mosquitos hold you the way you hold that one

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u/zgrad2 2h ago

Living in australia, we deal with these little cunts every day and i am so close to gas bombing the backyard.

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u/Holiday-Scarcity4726 1d ago

its a male, they dont bite

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u/mando_jango_mango 1d ago

How could you tell its sex?

PS: It bit me before I caught it…soooo it’s not a male

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u/Looking4Goals 1d ago

Bite back. Only fair.

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u/Holiday-Scarcity4726 1d ago

the size. Females are very small. The larger mosquitos are always males. They dont drink blood they get nectar from plants. That is most likely a small male

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u/mando_jango_mango 1d ago

Going down with the ship? Respect 🫡