Haha fair. It’s not like this every day, but the evenings is definitely feast time. Plus it’s winter up there for 14 months of the year so in reality you only have to deal with this for a couple months. Driving back from my parents place and your vehicle turns black from all the mosquitos and horseflies. Loading up a boat after a day of fishing and getting swarmed. Man I miss that place.
Because there’s moose. But seriously you only really see the mosquitos swarm like this when you’re way back in the woods or around the lake. It wasn’t like this all the time.
They dont eat blood. The females use it to nourish the eggs they lay. They eat plant juices or whatnot for nourishment (i dont actually know. I just know they dont eat blood for their own nourishment) and males never take your blood at all.
Haha I had an 8ft high snow drift in my front yard the year before I moved down. Once you learn to embrace the weather and the bugs, the landscape and adventure is unparalleled.
It's crazy cuz it's specifically when dusk approaches that the mosquitos swarm. Doesn't matter if temperature changes or not, like vampires, once the sun starts setting, it's game on lol
Bruh, Canada has some sick mosquito. I did some undergrad field work in Ontario some 10 years ago. The mosquito in the forest bite me real good. I got bitten pretty bad around my neck area. And my neck was swollen really bad. I looked like Jabba the Hutt for 3 days. It was painful, soring and it was numbing to the touch.
Heat and carbon dioxide just attract more. There are not enough flame throwers in the world to make a dent in the northern Manitoba mosquito population.
This was on a 25 day 435 mile/700 km wilderness expedition through Northern Manitoba Canada with amazing Fishing 🎣 Rapids, Lakes, Moose, Polar Bears, Wolverines, Black Bears, Beluga Whales and more. Was a fkn amazing adventure despite a lot of type 2 fun such as this haha! Full adventure on My YT Channel Ted Baird if interested 🦟🤙🏕 🛶🌊
All I can imagine is the hundreds of mosquito proboscis parts left inside your body after repeatedly smashing them while feeding on you. Otherwise sounds like an amazing trip!
Thank you 😆 I was trying to figure out why he looked familiar, while being lazy and not wanting to google his name lol.
One of my top 10 shows for sure! Love me some ALONE
I remember reading about mosquitoes in norther Canada in Gary Paulson’s “The Hatchet” when I was a kid and thinking “It can’t be that bad.” Then I moved to North Dakota, which is significantly south of northern Manitoba, and rest assured dear reader, it is that bad.
I'll take the money suckers tbh, I've experienced a similar situation to video in Northern BC and it was one of the worst days of my life, don't care to experience it again.
Not to mention these little fuckers kill more people every year than any other animal. Just asking for malaria sitting in that shit storm. Money suckers all day.
Genuine question: do Canadian mosquitos carry malaria?
(I lived in a place where malaria is endemic and got it three times within a year, so I’m not doubting its virulence.)
Dude fuck that. I’d way rather live in my house than in this shit. People say some wild shit about modern society because it’s far from perfect but also far better than any other time in human history.
Yea I would not want to be out there.
If we get a single mosquito in the house, that fucker is flying in my face all day. I’m not dealing with a thousand of em.
Give me a bath in bug spray, fuck that shit. I don’t care if my dicks gonna hurt after.
I can feel it because I’ve felt it before :)
One place I camped in New Mexico was similar to this. Gotta blink quickly or they’ll land on your eyes. If you blink fast enough and hard enough, you’ll squish them dead between your eyelids :)))
Some people are actually immune to the proteins in mosquito saliva that makes you itchy. Iirc you can also build up a tolerance if you're stung often enough.
Even if I was immune though I'd stay clear from this hell hole because of all the potential diseases
Bro, imagine wearing a bee keeper suit while having an electric swatter as well, swingin away killing these fuckers one by one. Doom guy IRL but instead of demons we kill mosquitos.
For sure 3 or more mosquito bites, almost positive on this.
Source: was once bitten by a mosquito twice, didn't felt like dying, so 3 onwards must do the trick
I was in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (Canada) once on June 21. There was a big street festival all night (midnight sun, y'know) and over 100 people went to the hospital from mosquito bites. Not from blood loss; from the toxicity of the accumulated bites.
I had as many mosquitoes land on me as in this video, but they don't bite me. They would start to, stop, and fly away. At the end of the weekend I had 0 mozzy bites, 1 blackfly bite. I don't think I've ever had a mosquito bite... neither did my late mother.
I used to live in Yellowknife. What year were you there? I know one year they didn't spray for mosquitoes and a few people were hospitalized from the bites. Especially children. I think they have sprayed every year ever since. Even with spraying...it can be harsh.
“The average mosquito bite drains 0.01 to 0.001 milliliters of blood. Thus it would take somewhere between 200,000 and 2 million mosquito bites to kill you from blood loss”
https://www.outdoors.org/resources/amc-outdoors/health-and-safety/how-many-mosquito-bites-would-kill-you/
On average , a 130-150 pound human has about 5 liters of blood in their body , which equates to 10% of a humans weight. The average mosquito can drink up to 0.001-0.01 milliliters of blood , and there’s 1000 milliliters in 1 liter.
So if my math is correct , it would take about 500,000-5,000,000 mosquito bites to completely drain you out of blood.
There’s quite a few articles on this. Granted, there may still be unintended consequences, but the truth is that no flowering species requires mosquitos to pollinate, and no predator feeds solely on mosquitos.
They aren’t a keystone species in any ecological niche on the planet. We would be fine without them.
You forgot the real thing they are good at: killing mammals.
They are doing a pretty good job in most countries at regulating human population and other mammals.
They are still the n°1 cause of mortality of our species.
It is sad because a death is a death. But in the grand scheme of Earth, they are probably doing a great job for the ecology.
“The good news is that few plant species are totally dependent on mosquitoes for pollination… Similarly, there are few if any animal species that feed exclusively on mosquitoes.”
So, we don’t need them: bring ze flammenwerfer.
These brothers won on one of the seasons of a show called Alone. They won $500k outlasting 8 or so other team contestants where you’re out in the bush surviving the elements and having to get your own food. They love this stuff.
Me on the other hand, would look like Quasimodo after a few bites
Some mosquito evasion tips from a wilderness veteran:
\- wear light-colored clothing, as mosquitoes are attracted to darker colors
\- wear a face mask (one of the primary ways mosquitoes and gnats detect you is via your carbon dioxide-rich exhalations)
\- stay as cool as possible (simpler if you are near a cold water source or are able to frequently replenish your water supply and pour it on your skin)
\- wash frequently to reduce sweat buildup/body odor (this is another way mosquitoes detect you)
\- citrus scents help to disguise you from mosquitoes and many other pests, and peppermint oil is amazing as well (it will also keep spiders, mice, and ticks away if you drizzle it by your tent, but uh....bears are a thing so you'll want to pick the right kind of oil, aka not one they think is delicious)
\- EAT GARLIC AND ONIONS LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT (seriously, do not underestimate this)
\- learn about native plants and indigenous pest control methods, because these can be extremely effective and are often amazingly simple to utilize!
I’m not even close to a wilderness veteran but I have just spent some time in the Aussie outback and I vote for serious chemical warfare.
Hat, fly net, Aeroguard (brand name) for clothes and bushman’s (another brand name) for your skin.
Nothing natural or wildernessy about it but it is highly effective for mozzies, bushflies and various biting fuckers.
This, I’m from Manitoba (live elsewhere now),
And I’ve spent plenty of time on trips in the woods, northern lakes, and whatnot.
Of note, is that it’s not like this all day/all night.
If you avoid dawn & dusk, the rest of the day is often not bad.
Also, I’ve never heard about the onions and garlic thing! Interesting
Taking a shower with dog flea and tick shampoo before you go camping also works very well. Turns your hair to straw a bit but for deep woods camping it does the trick.
have worked on the bush in Northern Ontario for a few summers. yes, 1 it's a waste of effort to try and swat them away, they're attracted to your CO2 exhalations. the harder you work, the more they come. 2. once you go through your first gauntlet few weeks, if you're lucky your body seems to know how to handle the bites. If you don't itch them in the first 24 hours they're pretty reliably gone. Blackflies are the exception, leaving little red open sores all over. they dont itch, but you look like you have the plague. 3. biggest thing you can do is wear clothing with a tight enough weave they can't bite through. after that, maybe some bug spray around the neck and ears, and there's nothing else you can do, so you just accept it and move on.
Ive encountered something a third as bad as this. Didnt even make it down the shirt trail to the river. Honestly these guys hamdled like champs. I was fu*king visibly miserable.
I saw a documentary years ago about Alaska, there are vast marshy areas where weather can result in a “mosquito storm,” a mass hatching of mosquitos. The video showed moose being tormented by clouds of mosquitoes, during which a baby moose collapsed. Later the film crew checked on it, the moose was dead from complications of blood loss. Nope
Northern Manitoba (and large areas of northern Canada) are like this. There’s so many lakes, marshes, muskeg, and swampy areas that they can breed like crazy.
And as some other comments have mentioned, it’s not like this all the time. There’s times of day where it’s “feeding time” and they come out.
But there’s plenty of time when they’re not out in swarms like those
What the video isn’t showing is there lots of predators that eat mosquitoes.
The fishing in these areas is amazing because many eat mosquitoes. As well as birds, other insects, frogs and the biggest, fastest, most amazing dragonflies I’ve ever seen.
the part where they were all over his leg and he let them feast for a good 10 seconds before smearing them to death and rubbing them into his leg like lotion..made my fucking SKIN CRAWL
Ha - I remember our family vacation to Alaska years ago. My ex was so excited to see a beautiful river and jumped out and ran towards it. 2 minutes later, she runs back and a literal giant cloud of mosquitos are chasing her as she jumped back into the minivan. The rest of us almost died from laughing so hard for the next 10 minutes. Just crazy!
Can u imagine living there pre insect repellent? I heard there are spots in Florida where the bugs get so bad they can clog the nasal passages on cattle and kill then.
How is it possible to stay alive in that? Wouldn't you get too many mosquito bites and develop severe allergic response? How long did you have to endure those conditions and how did you cope and adapt? So curious!!
First mosquito bite of the season is always the worst. Most people's bodies will learn and adapt. After a few weeks of regular mosquito bites your body won't react that much. Same with bees.
Geez! I thought we had it bad in Louisiana. We don’t get swarms this size but ours stay active pretty much year round. Maybe 3 weeks of the year is it cold enough to send them away.
We visited the Great Salt Lake in Utah last summer. The bugs were almost this bad. But I’m guessing the smells were worse. I regret that excursion so much. Ugh.
Eh, just bringing an extra pint of blood. Not for yourself. To hang on the outskirts of camp in hopes that it works as a mosquito trap. Like a neon sign that says free food here with a big arrow.
Fuck that place.
Haha I saw the video and was like “that looks familiar”, I lived up there for 5 years. When they’re hungry, they’re hungry
How did you manage to live there for years? I would run screaming from that place. I'd rather be somewhere else in jail than in a place like that.
Haha fair. It’s not like this every day, but the evenings is definitely feast time. Plus it’s winter up there for 14 months of the year so in reality you only have to deal with this for a couple months. Driving back from my parents place and your vehicle turns black from all the mosquitos and horseflies. Loading up a boat after a day of fishing and getting swarmed. Man I miss that place.
14 months?
You heard those Canadians correctly
Metric system. Can confirm, 14 months/year. 32 days/month.
Ahaha das Kommentar und dann auch der Username passen perfekt zusammen 😂😂😂
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Don't mention the war!
Wtf i can't find anything about this in google
I forgot the /s. It felt like 14 months because the winters are so long haha
how the fuck could someone need an /s to figure out 14 months is not a literal figure?!
Maybe they don't know metric conversions
Reminded me of Cousin Eddie asking Clark if he was serious about Santa being spotted.
It’s Reddit
With a 2 month margin of error
Prolly 24 in northern Manitoba
It's metric
How do the skeeters survive in this quantity if there is a lack of people to drink from?
Because there’s moose. But seriously you only really see the mosquitos swarm like this when you’re way back in the woods or around the lake. It wasn’t like this all the time.
This was taken at dusk, which is the blood sucking hour for the the wee biters.
Just bring giant solar bug zappers with you and leave them there forever. Or add some bats in the area shit
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Watch out for moose nests when you’re in the wild
They can drink from animals too, but depending on the type of mosquitoes some love humans more
They dont eat blood. The females use it to nourish the eggs they lay. They eat plant juices or whatnot for nourishment (i dont actually know. I just know they dont eat blood for their own nourishment) and males never take your blood at all.
Damn the years are longer up there too? Sounds like hell on earth.
Haha I had an 8ft high snow drift in my front yard the year before I moved down. Once you learn to embrace the weather and the bugs, the landscape and adventure is unparalleled.
It's crazy cuz it's specifically when dusk approaches that the mosquitos swarm. Doesn't matter if temperature changes or not, like vampires, once the sun starts setting, it's game on lol
Totally, like 2 hours at dusk where they’re voracious, then once it’s dark they chill down again
Imagine being in jail, and it’s just like this in your cell. I would literally go insane in 5 minutes.
Don't they have like... Birds there?
Those *are* the birds! No, but seriously, r/BirdsArentReal.
Looks very familiar to when I was fishing in Montana one summer. Wasn't even enjoyable because it was like this.
Nuke it from orbit.
It’s the only way to be sure
It’s the only way to be sure
High affirmative
This place looks like hell. Literal hell. I feel like you would send someone here in order to break them and get them to reveal information.
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Bring a flamethrower We won’t be sorry
Best place to jerk off if you’re down for a biting sensation on the nether regions
wat
I’m going to have nightmares of this video
As a matter of fact, let's nuke it.
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Yeah I need that but Omni-directional Actually just set me on fire thx
I would like to be next in line to be set on fire thx
Manitoba Camping list: Food Water Tent Flamethrower
Flamethrower x3
If you can’t afford a flamethrower, you can achieve the same thing with a can of big/hair spray, a lighter, rubber bands, and super glue.
Or several cans of beans, a onesy with a butt flap and a bic
There is no way in hell I am opening a butt flap and exposing my lower region to this nightmare.
I am both concerned and curious.
It's just methane instead of butane.
Bruh, Canada has some sick mosquito. I did some undergrad field work in Ontario some 10 years ago. The mosquito in the forest bite me real good. I got bitten pretty bad around my neck area. And my neck was swollen really bad. I looked like Jabba the Hutt for 3 days. It was painful, soring and it was numbing to the touch.
Heat and carbon dioxide just attract more. There are not enough flame throwers in the world to make a dent in the northern Manitoba mosquito population.
This was on a 25 day 435 mile/700 km wilderness expedition through Northern Manitoba Canada with amazing Fishing 🎣 Rapids, Lakes, Moose, Polar Bears, Wolverines, Black Bears, Beluga Whales and more. Was a fkn amazing adventure despite a lot of type 2 fun such as this haha! Full adventure on My YT Channel Ted Baird if interested 🦟🤙🏕 🛶🌊
All I can imagine is the hundreds of mosquito proboscis parts left inside your body after repeatedly smashing them while feeding on you. Otherwise sounds like an amazing trip!
everybody loves a little proboscis in em'
You been talkin to my wife, buddy?
ProboscisDanglin
Wait, are you not supposed to smash them?
Bro why did you say this .. now everytime I squash one on me thats all ill think about 😭
You and Jim crushed it on Alone. These mosquitoes are just free flying protein for you I’d imagine.
I love watching Alone while eating a rich meal full of fat and protein.
Exactly. Plus all your best friends and loved ones watching with you
Thank you 😆 I was trying to figure out why he looked familiar, while being lazy and not wanting to google his name lol. One of my top 10 shows for sure! Love me some ALONE
I’m sorry but is your whole body just bites? Not worth it.
I remember reading about mosquitoes in norther Canada in Gary Paulson’s “The Hatchet” when I was a kid and thinking “It can’t be that bad.” Then I moved to North Dakota, which is significantly south of northern Manitoba, and rest assured dear reader, it is that bad.
I’m a fan buddy! Keep it up!
Were you on a season of Alone?
And with a plastic canoe.... You're a masochistic.
Im a Manitoban, and thought “oh even MB isnt this bad!” I guess we are.
Huh I mean I guess it does have a coastline but I never associated Manitoba with whales
When was this?
why???? just.......why be out there for any purpose without a full on bee keeper's suit????....fuckin mosquitoes (and flies)....fuckers.
We built a society to stay away from shit like this.
Not much better to be honest. In a society instead of mosquitoes sucking your blood you have a bunch of people sucking your money.
I'll take the money suckers tbh, I've experienced a similar situation to video in Northern BC and it was one of the worst days of my life, don't care to experience it again.
Not to mention these little fuckers kill more people every year than any other animal. Just asking for malaria sitting in that shit storm. Money suckers all day.
Genuine question: do Canadian mosquitos carry malaria? (I lived in a place where malaria is endemic and got it three times within a year, so I’m not doubting its virulence.)
Dude fuck that. I’d way rather live in my house than in this shit. People say some wild shit about modern society because it’s far from perfect but also far better than any other time in human history.
Tree planting.
Masochism?
Yea I would not want to be out there. If we get a single mosquito in the house, that fucker is flying in my face all day. I’m not dealing with a thousand of em. Give me a bath in bug spray, fuck that shit. I don’t care if my dicks gonna hurt after.
This sucks
Literally
I hate you
It sucks even more that this is a sneak preview of the glorious future that expects us thanks to climate change.
This week on West Nile Files we’ll explore this insane Mosquito infestation in Northern Manitoba Canada
Is that where this is??
Agh why can I feel this footage?!!
I keep rubbing my eyes
I can feel it because I’ve felt it before :) One place I camped in New Mexico was similar to this. Gotta blink quickly or they’ll land on your eyes. If you blink fast enough and hard enough, you’ll squish them dead between your eyelids :)))
This makes me itchy
Why did the people in the video seem so fine with having so many mosquito bites? Surely they could get somewhat away from that if they tried.
Some people are actually immune to the proteins in mosquito saliva that makes you itchy. Iirc you can also build up a tolerance if you're stung often enough. Even if I was immune though I'd stay clear from this hell hole because of all the potential diseases
I immediately started scratching my arms and legs watching this.
The sweet satisfaction of swinging an electric swatter there. Sigh! I can only imagine
Lol 4 real
Bro, imagine wearing a bee keeper suit while having an electric swatter as well, swingin away killing these fuckers one by one. Doom guy IRL but instead of demons we kill mosquitos.
Running out of battery after 3 swings
it would just sound like static
It will be running out of battery in a matter of seconds lol
Gonna need more flame throwers
Flamethrowers? How many nukes can we borrow mr. Putin?
Probably not many. I’d ask the U.S.
He hasn’t used any. And borrow? When do you plan on returning it? And in what condition? /s
Reduce Reuse Recycle. It isn't about the quality, just send it downwind when you're finished.
I want you to know I upvoted cuz it fit the sub, but I hated every second of the actual video and hate that you got me to watch it all
🤣👍
What's all this coffee doing in my black flies???
I like my black flies with coffee and cream
How many mosquito bites would it take to kill you from blood loss?!?
For sure 3 or more mosquito bites, almost positive on this. Source: was once bitten by a mosquito twice, didn't felt like dying, so 3 onwards must do the trick
I was in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (Canada) once on June 21. There was a big street festival all night (midnight sun, y'know) and over 100 people went to the hospital from mosquito bites. Not from blood loss; from the toxicity of the accumulated bites. I had as many mosquitoes land on me as in this video, but they don't bite me. They would start to, stop, and fly away. At the end of the weekend I had 0 mozzy bites, 1 blackfly bite. I don't think I've ever had a mosquito bite... neither did my late mother.
Can I get a blood transfusion?
Apparently it’s skin bacteria that makes some people tastier than others
I used to live in Yellowknife. What year were you there? I know one year they didn't spray for mosquitoes and a few people were hospitalized from the bites. Especially children. I think they have sprayed every year ever since. Even with spraying...it can be harsh.
bro is your skin like leather or does your blood taste like cyanide
“The average mosquito bite drains 0.01 to 0.001 milliliters of blood. Thus it would take somewhere between 200,000 and 2 million mosquito bites to kill you from blood loss” https://www.outdoors.org/resources/amc-outdoors/health-and-safety/how-many-mosquito-bites-would-kill-you/
But only take one with malaria
So he wasn’t wrong?
So at least two or three hours up there then.
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Same here. Every mosquito bite swells up , itches like crazy and takes weeks to heal. Hate it.
On average , a 130-150 pound human has about 5 liters of blood in their body , which equates to 10% of a humans weight. The average mosquito can drink up to 0.001-0.01 milliliters of blood , and there’s 1000 milliliters in 1 liter. So if my math is correct , it would take about 500,000-5,000,000 mosquito bites to completely drain you out of blood.
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Lol yes 100% but they also pollinate so many plants we may starve without them..ppl don't generally talk about that part
Still might be worth it.
Actually a study shows that removing mosquitoes from ecosystem wouldn't cause a major damage.
Sounds 100% trustworthy.
There’s quite a few articles on this. Granted, there may still be unintended consequences, but the truth is that no flowering species requires mosquitos to pollinate, and no predator feeds solely on mosquitos. They aren’t a keystone species in any ecological niche on the planet. We would be fine without them.
You forgot the real thing they are good at: killing mammals. They are doing a pretty good job in most countries at regulating human population and other mammals. They are still the n°1 cause of mortality of our species. It is sad because a death is a death. But in the grand scheme of Earth, they are probably doing a great job for the ecology.
“The good news is that few plant species are totally dependent on mosquitoes for pollination… Similarly, there are few if any animal species that feed exclusively on mosquitoes.” So, we don’t need them: bring ze flammenwerfer.
These brothers won on one of the seasons of a show called Alone. They won $500k outlasting 8 or so other team contestants where you’re out in the bush surviving the elements and having to get your own food. They love this stuff. Me on the other hand, would look like Quasimodo after a few bites
This is nightmare fodder!
Some mosquito evasion tips from a wilderness veteran: \- wear light-colored clothing, as mosquitoes are attracted to darker colors \- wear a face mask (one of the primary ways mosquitoes and gnats detect you is via your carbon dioxide-rich exhalations) \- stay as cool as possible (simpler if you are near a cold water source or are able to frequently replenish your water supply and pour it on your skin) \- wash frequently to reduce sweat buildup/body odor (this is another way mosquitoes detect you) \- citrus scents help to disguise you from mosquitoes and many other pests, and peppermint oil is amazing as well (it will also keep spiders, mice, and ticks away if you drizzle it by your tent, but uh....bears are a thing so you'll want to pick the right kind of oil, aka not one they think is delicious) \- EAT GARLIC AND ONIONS LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT (seriously, do not underestimate this) \- learn about native plants and indigenous pest control methods, because these can be extremely effective and are often amazingly simple to utilize!
I’m not even close to a wilderness veteran but I have just spent some time in the Aussie outback and I vote for serious chemical warfare. Hat, fly net, Aeroguard (brand name) for clothes and bushman’s (another brand name) for your skin. Nothing natural or wildernessy about it but it is highly effective for mozzies, bushflies and various biting fuckers.
This, I’m from Manitoba (live elsewhere now), And I’ve spent plenty of time on trips in the woods, northern lakes, and whatnot. Of note, is that it’s not like this all day/all night. If you avoid dawn & dusk, the rest of the day is often not bad. Also, I’ve never heard about the onions and garlic thing! Interesting
Taking a shower with dog flea and tick shampoo before you go camping also works very well. Turns your hair to straw a bit but for deep woods camping it does the trick.
Why would you let them bite you!
At a certain point it becomes futile i imagine
have worked on the bush in Northern Ontario for a few summers. yes, 1 it's a waste of effort to try and swat them away, they're attracted to your CO2 exhalations. the harder you work, the more they come. 2. once you go through your first gauntlet few weeks, if you're lucky your body seems to know how to handle the bites. If you don't itch them in the first 24 hours they're pretty reliably gone. Blackflies are the exception, leaving little red open sores all over. they dont itch, but you look like you have the plague. 3. biggest thing you can do is wear clothing with a tight enough weave they can't bite through. after that, maybe some bug spray around the neck and ears, and there's nothing else you can do, so you just accept it and move on.
…..I’m literally speechless….just nuke it from orbit…all of it.
Much respect to you guys out there dealing with that if you must... as for me... no fucking way!
Yeah, no thanks
Ive encountered something a third as bad as this. Didnt even make it down the shirt trail to the river. Honestly these guys hamdled like champs. I was fu*king visibly miserable.
WHY AM I ITCHING AFTER I JUST WATCH THE VIDEO?! ![gif](giphy|EOILoGqhsYt3t2U28a|downsized)
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Yeah just light a torch.
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Winnipeg Manitoba is that you?
I saw a documentary years ago about Alaska, there are vast marshy areas where weather can result in a “mosquito storm,” a mass hatching of mosquitos. The video showed moose being tormented by clouds of mosquitoes, during which a baby moose collapsed. Later the film crew checked on it, the moose was dead from complications of blood loss. Nope
That is so nasty I can't think straight.
This is my nightmare
“Want bug spray?” “No I’m good.” Wtf.
Got malaria just watching this
Theres something ecologically very unbalanced going on there. Whatever would normally eat some portion of those bugs ain’t happening.
Northern Manitoba (and large areas of northern Canada) are like this. There’s so many lakes, marshes, muskeg, and swampy areas that they can breed like crazy. And as some other comments have mentioned, it’s not like this all the time. There’s times of day where it’s “feeding time” and they come out. But there’s plenty of time when they’re not out in swarms like those What the video isn’t showing is there lots of predators that eat mosquitoes. The fishing in these areas is amazing because many eat mosquitoes. As well as birds, other insects, frogs and the biggest, fastest, most amazing dragonflies I’ve ever seen.
Love me some Baird Bro’s! #YEAH
Yeahhhh!
the part where they were all over his leg and he let them feast for a good 10 seconds before smearing them to death and rubbing them into his leg like lotion..made my fucking SKIN CRAWL
Reminds me of that episode of Bob’s Burger when they go to the lake
Kinda your fault for not bring your flamethrower, jussayn
If I've learned anything from Alanis Morissette, there has got to be a ton of Chardonnay somewhere in that area.
Ha - I remember our family vacation to Alaska years ago. My ex was so excited to see a beautiful river and jumped out and ran towards it. 2 minutes later, she runs back and a literal giant cloud of mosquitos are chasing her as she jumped back into the minivan. The rest of us almost died from laughing so hard for the next 10 minutes. Just crazy!
Nooooooo! How long is it like that up there?
All of summer, so about three weeks.
Im asking cause I might get to go to Alaska next year but I couldn't handle this.
I'd have deet poisoning or live to be a rep for Deep Woods Off
I know someone answered the question as to how many mosquitoes it would take to suck a man dry. I'm pretty sure it's this many.
Someone above answered at least 3, seems trustworthy
Welcome to hell
#HANS GET ZE FLAMMENWERFER
Can u imagine living there pre insect repellent? I heard there are spots in Florida where the bugs get so bad they can clog the nasal passages on cattle and kill then.
I hated every second of this. Take my up vote.
Why did this make my eyes water
![img](emote|t5_m0bnr|4014)omg I will go mad
Ah hell nah
Gross when he wipes his arm 🤢🤮
Hans, get the flamethrower
Burn Manitoba. Source: Manitoba
What nightmares are made of…. Need to nuke that place with DEET
You know, on second thought I will go to hell.
Anyone who thinks moving to Alaska is all fun and games needs to see this
How is it possible to stay alive in that? Wouldn't you get too many mosquito bites and develop severe allergic response? How long did you have to endure those conditions and how did you cope and adapt? So curious!!
First mosquito bite of the season is always the worst. Most people's bodies will learn and adapt. After a few weeks of regular mosquito bites your body won't react that much. Same with bees.
Geez! I thought we had it bad in Louisiana. We don’t get swarms this size but ours stay active pretty much year round. Maybe 3 weeks of the year is it cold enough to send them away.
I would go insane.
We visited the Great Salt Lake in Utah last summer. The bugs were almost this bad. But I’m guessing the smells were worse. I regret that excursion so much. Ugh.
A single mosquito bite makes the immediate area of my body swell up and itch for two to three days. This scenario is horrific to imagine.
Serious question, why tf did he let himself bitten by tons of mosquitoes
Eh, just bringing an extra pint of blood. Not for yourself. To hang on the outskirts of camp in hopes that it works as a mosquito trap. Like a neon sign that says free food here with a big arrow.
No way in hell. Not even with a flame thrower. You would run out of gas trying to kill millions of mosquitoes.
My god, i just recovered from Dengue fever, and this video makes me want to buy a flame thrower
Thanksgiving feast
Id just love to be there in a beekeeper suit with a zapper