Mozzies

Just had that high pitched screech in ear and further investigation found a huge mosquito. Well i think it is, same shape as on holiday but bigger. Warm weather brought em up?
 


Objectively the worst animals in the world IMO.

At least wasps have an important role in decomposing dead stuff.

As far as I know mosquitos don’t even form a major component of anything’s diet. They just fly around making people itch at best, or killing people at worst.
 
They're shitbags but necessary ones sadly. Other animals up the food chain - birds and bats eat them. Larvae get munched by amphibians and fish. They're pretty major pollinators too.

Don't get me wrong, they're absolutely obsessed with me (currently got about a dozen bites on the go around my legs) and I hate them - but reading this sort of spun me the other way with regards to species we'd categorise as pests Silent Earth by Dave Goulson, review — stopping the insect massacre
 

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