:snoop: Florida peoples it's about time to make an exodus

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Huge Florida mosquitoes: Monster insects are called 'Gallinippers'

Huge Florida mosquitoes the size of a quarter are set to invade Florida — if the rainy season is wet enough.

The huge mosquitoes poised to invade Florida are nearly this big without magnification — they're about 20 times larger than ordinary mosquitoes.

One of the most ferocious insects you've ever heard of — it's the size of a quarter* — is set to invade*Florida*this summer.

The Sunshine State, already home to*man-eating sinkholes, invading*Burmese pythons,*swarming sharks, tropical storms and other disasters, can expect to see an explosion of shaggy-haired gallinippers (Psorophora ciliata), a type of giant mosquito, according to entomologist Phil Kaufman of the University of Florida.

Gallinipper eggs hatch after a rainstorm or flood, and the state saw a big jump in the numbers of gallinippers last summer after*Tropical Storm Debby*dumped its load on Florida. Eggs laid last year could produce a bumper crop of the blood-sucking bugs this summer if Florida sees a soggy rainy season."

I wouldn't be surprised, given the numbers we saw last year," Kaufman said in a statement. "When we hit the rainy cycle, we may see that again."

As insects go, gallinippers are particularly formidable. Their eggs lay dormant for years, awaiting the floodwaters that will enable them to hatch. Even in their larval stage, gallinippers are so tough they'll eat tadpoles and other small aquatic prey.

And as adults, the voracious pests feed day and night (unlike everyday mosquitoes, which generally feed only at dawn and dusk). Their bodies are strong enough to bite through clothing, and they're known to go after pets, wild animals and even fish,*MyFoxOrlando.com*reports."

It's about 20 times bigger than the sort of typical, Florida mosquito that you find," Anthony Pelaez ofTampa's Museum of Science and Industry told Fox Orlando. "And it's mean, and it goes after people, and it bites, and it hurts."

The term "gallinipper" isn't recognized by most entomologists, but over the past century, the word — and the insect — entered popular legend through Southern folktales, minstrel shows and blues songs, according to a report from the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences*at the University of Florida.

The earliest description of the pest comes from 1897 by a writer who called the insect "the shyest, slyest, meanest and most venomous of them all." (Gallinipper bites don't actually contain any venom — they just feel that painful.)Will insect repellents help to protect people from the dreaded gallinipper? Maybe, Kaufman said, though the pests may be more resistant to bug repellents — even those containing DEET — because of their large size.

If there's a silver lining to a possible invasion of gallinippers, it's the fact that their larvae are so ravenous they eat the larvae of other insects, including*mosquitoes, thus reducing the populations of those pests. And they're not known to carry any diseases, though that may be small comfort to beleaguered Floridians.

http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-N...ster-insects-are-called-Gallinippers/(page)/1

 

[CACtain Planet]

We've been dealing with this since the 1520's.... and this to shall pass

 

[madness]

thought this was gonna be about the economy getting worse


a bug, i keep 2 loaded cans of Raid tucked in my waistband

 

[Lord Scion]

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

 

[villain]

Flordia is home to a lot of demonic individuals, friends.
Let's pray that the citizens of that state change their behavior soon before God inflicts his wrath upon them.

 

[Liquid]

I never noticed Bugs standing on Georgia after he cut florida off

 

[the mechanic]

Damn ...mosquitos that big yall may as well make them the official state bird

 

[Good Guy Guevara]

Its going to be bad for you nikkas. FL legislation cut funding for the states mosquito program.

 

[He Who Posts Well]

Mosquitoes the size of quarters!?

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

fukk that shyt, I already fukking HATE mosquitos.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Wrong thread

 

[ltheghost]

WTF is this!?!?! Man, hell naw!!

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Gallinipper next to an Asian tiger mosquito.

"It's about 20 times bigger than the sort of typical, Florida mosquito that you find," Anthony Pelaez of Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry told Fox Orlando. "And it's mean, and it goes after people, and it bites, and it hurts.

"Pelaez described the gallinipper's bite as so painful it "feels like you're being stabbed.

*stocks up on Off*

 

[superunknown23]

Mosquitoes the size of quarters!?

Yeah, real scary... They've clearly never been to Africa