Really, what is the purpose of mosquitoes?

[Shell Beau]

They must serve a purpose of some sort. I think they are completely useless and should be destroyed. I know they feed birds and stuff, but there are other bugs to eat on that are much less annoying.

[Forkboy]

1. They serve as proof of God's nonexistence.

because no creator worth their salt would create such a useless creature.

I'm talking of mosquitoes, not us humans btw. ;)

[Shell Beau]

2. Mosquitoes are tiny devils flying around.

:rofl:

[Forkboy]

3. Ever see the movies Night Watch or Day Watch?

They're Russian vampire movies, an the vamps go into this netherworld called The Gloom, where they're mosquitoes.

Haven't looked at the bugs the same way since. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMHQsjgQDrA&feature=related

[Shell Beau]

5. Have not seen that one! Maybe a good thing too.

I already feel like the mosquitoes around here are miniature pterodactyls.

[Sebastian Doyle]

19. They ain't devils they're LESBIAN VAMPIRES !!!11!!11!!1!

The mosquitoes that bite are females, and they use the blood to fertilize their eggs. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians.

[rucky]

4. Another reason to avoid Wisconsin?

[Shell Beau]

9. Try the Mississippi Delta in the summer.

I don't know if it is the river or what, but all I can say is DAMN! The mosquitoes there can pick your ass up and carry you somewhere else. There are that freakin' many of them, and they are BIG mosquitos.

[jobycom]

6. Here in Texas, you can use them for transportation.

[Shell Beau]

11. Yep!

A mosquito truck has gone by my house twice tonight, and I am noticing a small difference.

I complain now, but when I first moved to Jackson, I didn't think they even had mosquitoes because I was so used to those delta mosquitoes. I am going soft. I need to revisit the delta to remember why it isn't so bad in Jackson.

[jobycom]

16. Delta mosquitoes and coast mosquitoes are the worst. They killed Jane Mansefield, you know.

Well, she ran into an 18 wheeler stopped behind a mosquito truck... Right down the road from where I grew up at the time. I think I mention that about once a week, though.

[Shell Beau]

32. Ha! Well it is pretty remarkable.

[Jade Fox]

7. Without them we would never have had Jurassic Park.....

Oh wait, we never DID have Jurassic Park!

Never mind.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. So you can lie awake at night with one of the little bastards hovering near your ear

going "eeeeeeeEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEeeee" until you want to leap out the window.

[NoPasaran]

10. If it wasn't for mosquitoes, how would people get malaria?

[petronius]

34. That is word-for-word what I intended to post...

:)

[rurallib]

12. bat food best I can tell.

[oedura]

13. What is the purpose of humanity?

Another generally annoying and useless species.

[charlie and algernon]

18. Plastic

the earth wanted plastic for itself but didn't know how to make it, so it created us.


~ George Carlin

[liberaltrucker]

14. Gaia's way of telling us not to get too cocky

Skeeters do, after all, carry nasty things like malaria, etc.

Don't piss off Gaia. She just *might* mutate HIV, et al to
be spread by insects rather than hominids. Just sayin'.

[BlueJazz]

15. ...So the Sci-Fi Channel can make another Shitty movie about them.

:)

[Haole Girl]

17. You got me curious... I found this interesting article:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040630/news_1c30mosquito.html

[Shell Beau]

35. Interesting. They serve some sort of purpose, but

not enough that they really matter. Death to the mosquitoes!!!!!!

[blitzen]

20. Their larvae feed TROUT....

Hence, they are fully justified in this best of all possible worlds.

[many a good man]

21. The Delaware Indians (Leni Lenape) say they are created by the devil

Unlike most beings in Creation, they were created by the Evil Spirit, Machi Manitoo, instead of by the Great Spririt, Kije Manitoo. They have only one purpose for existence, and it's bad. I have to agree!

[Juche]

22. There is no purpose to anything living. Something lives if it can

Mosquitoes live because they can and because they are good at it. If they start sucking at living, they will go away.

[sammythecat]

23. Blame it on Noah

Fucker couldn't leave til he had a couple mosquitoes, 2 flies, and a pair of wasps.

Really glad he remembered to bring the fire ants too.

Fucker. x(

[kentauros]

27. But he left the fish and other aquatics alone.

They got off due to a loophole, so probably the same for the flying creatures ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LtiyefHCe4

[sammythecat]

28. That was good

I really like Eddie Izzard. The first time I saw your sig line I could just hear him saying that.

[kentauros]

30. Yeah, I need to find some other quotes to use, but I like that one

because it's one of the weirdliest funny ones :D

Here's his fansite with full transcripts of his various shows: http://www.auntiemomo.com/cakeordeath

and wikiquote: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eddie_Izzard

[sammythecat]

31. Thanks for the links!

I accidentally discovered him about a year ago (seems I'm always about a decade behind). I saw a bunch of his stuff on youtube and thought he was great. I like his humor.

[mentalsolstice]

24. To remind me of Christ's suffering on the cross

Okay, a little bit too Catholic there. But that's all I can come up with. as they cause me to suffer from May-Sept. when I would most like to enjoy my yard, especially during the early evening hours. Here in Alabama, they can be like little buzzsaws on the human skin and they really seem to love me particularly (oh joy, I'm loved by something).

[old mark]

25. They were sent to make us happy to see the return of winter...nt

[Duer 157099]

26. Redbull gives you wings and mosquitoes gives DNA legs n/t

[stewartcolbert08]

29. To piss me off

and make me itch! LOL

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[mike_c]

36. water quality....

To the extent that any organism has a "purpose," I suppose it's purpose is ecological, i.e. it provides some important ecosystem services. One of the services mosquitoes provide is filtering microbes from water and repackaging microbial biomass into a form that's accessible to larger predators, who eat the mosquito larvae. They're an important component of many aquatic food chains.

Feel better now?