Do Enjoy This Up-Close and Personal Look at How Mosquitos Suck Your Blood

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There's a good preface about how mosquitos are capable of both killing people and also making them really sick, but otherwise this is just a very zoomed-in (and interesting!) explanation of how mosquitos use six (six!) needles to pierce you.

Did you also know they need blood to hatch their eggs and — well, like I said, there's just a lot of pertinent mosquito information in there. Watch the video above.

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