Shorty Blackwell  wrote:

> wilkins{at}wehi.edu.au (John Wilkins) wrote:
> > Shorty Blackwell  wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > But why does it still itch, even if you've gotten the thing off of you
> > > _soon_ as you feel the prick of penetration?  :(  :(  :(  They are
> > > that fast, huh?  What the hell would a mosquito want with my knuckle,
> > > furthermore?  :(
> > 
> > The anticoagulant is in their saliva, which they inject as soon as they
> > penetrate the skin. Even if you get them off immediately, it is too
> > late.
> 
> First she causes a human to hurt, then she causes the human to itch
> for days, and then she dies.  What a seemingly meager evolutionary
> expression.  Poor little 'squitos.

And yet their kind has been around for millions of years.
-- 
John Wilkins
"And this is a damnable doctrine" - Charles Darwin, Autobiography
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