Or is it that the victims pest warning system is currently winning the biological arms race, in which case how are mosquitoes able to successfully reproduce? Or is it that mosquitoes have evolved such that their spawning numbers offset the difficulty they have biting?

Biology is hard.

  • lennybird@lemmy.world
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    The mosquito likely evolved to try, but the body evolves to defend just the same. Your irritation is your own body’s immune response after all.