to hope that mosquitos are red blooded?

[sevenkeystomysoul]

Just splattered a mosquito with a wooden spatula, nearest thing to hand, and there was red blood [bluergh emocion]. So, does that mean it has fed on someone else or do they have red blood? Find that hard to believe but the alternative is making me feel quite queasy. Have checked sleeping baby, she seems bite free. I did say to very deceased and splattered mosquito 'if you've bitten my baby I will kill you' .

Sorry, insect blood is green. You squashed a full mozzie. :D

Probably mine- I have just had a mosquito bite on my right hand which flared up nearly 2 weeks after the original bite. Meant I couldn't drive, hold a pen etc. Now on penicillin. Then got one on left foot at exactly the place my shoes touch (does that make sense?) so have had to wear flip flops all week.
Bastards!!! Well done for killing it, sorry about your blood splattered spatula!

someones blood i am afraid!
I kill loads everyday in the office (not in UK) and i always catch them in my hand and get a nice little blood explosion (boak)

It turned out to be my blood, as evidenced by three massive bites on my shoulder this morning, so not quite as boak-inducing as it first appeared. I do hate mosquitoes though, their sole function seems to be to spread disease. I remember being so badly bitten a few years ago in Greece that the bastards were too heavy to fly away, it looked like there had been a massacre in the hotel room. I am really not an insect person and our flat in the summer is a haven for wasps, moths and (shudder) spiders. There is a humungous one currently residing in my kitchen light fitting. I am too wimpish to get up there and deal with it, so every time it appears I poke it back up with a long-handled feather duster .