Why Mosquitos Are The Most Dangerous Creatures In The World | Zapped | Spark

Mosquitos kill more people a year than any other creature on the planet. But just why do these tiny insects pack such a punch?
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[@TeamLegacyFTW]

8:02 " she's on top, *of course* " idk why but that cracked me up. What a Dom

[@Kingoftherodeo08]

Hi I'm Dom 👋

[@rubyhunternc]

My mother told me that she got Malaria from a Mosquito when she was a young adult. When she recovered a Mosquito would not go near her, for some reason.. My mother passed away in 2000 of Pneumonia she was 89 years old. I'm now 77 years old.

[@FossKhan]

Her blood may have still had traces of malaria so it kept them away, RIP to you mother!

[@dude...are-you-sure]

@@FossKhan that makes absolutely no sense. Are you an entomologist or were you just blindly guessing...

[@FossKhan]

@@dude...are-you-sure I'm the top epidemiologist in the world, can't you tell by my elaborate KZbin hypothesis?

[@fai3379]

@@FossKhan pneumonia is a different desese but immunity system may be not good after.

[@Zany4God]

Excellent presentation.

[@thatonerandomguyontheinter4971]

I love how every expert pretend they're getting bit by a mosquito

[@spideywhiplash]

I know. It's corny but funny to me.😄

[@JJJ_JJ1]

“It’s the female mosquito that matters.” Male mosquitos: 😔

[@NickanM]

And still, the effenists is talking about "The patriarchy"...

[@NickanM]

@1st Account Effinist is a code word for feminist. Sometimes we need to use it since the youtube censorship mob sometimes ban videos OR posts containing the word. It is insane....

[@tracycase4520]

Therapy would work

[@spideywhiplash]

When I used to consume my mandatory 18 delicious beers a day. I never got bit by mosquitoes.

[@vitalijslebedevs1629]

18.. if you drunk 9l of booze daily, your comparative size (and that of your income) should make mosquitos as unperceptable as specks of dust anyway..

[@NickanM]

Oh, I got to test that! (Getting out to get beer. A lot of it. 😉)

[@kiwitrainguy]

No mention of the Chrysanthemum flower as it contains pyrethrum that keeps mosquitos (and other insects) away.

[@kainoaho4287]

Yep. Wonderful species. I spray pyrethrin on alot of my plants

[@budgetking2591]

beautifull to see how neatly she lays her egs

[@cocktail7342]

5:33 why is this so satisfying

[@rudbeckia885]

Excellent information

[@jezz4khd785]

I've been the recipient of Ross River Virus thanks to the mosquito. I hear one through the night now and I instantly lay down some serious Kung Fu

[@kristovapalenkova5884]

LMAO 😂

[@f.d.english5080]

6:55 beats wings up to 1000 time a sec? Are you sure? Seems kinda unbelievable

[@epicon6]

It's true though. Just google it. There's plenty of slo mo video about it too

[@albertohurtado1330]

Yeah, hard to believe! Who on earth had the time to count the 1000 beats in a single second!

[@f.d.english5080]

@@albertohurtado1330 I think it's b.s.

[@f.d.english5080]

@@albertohurtado1330 +

[@kiwitrainguy]

They thought bumble bees couldn't fly because their wings were too small for their bodies until they realised that the bumble bees were beating their wings really really fast.

[@eribertoacedo9505]

Hey check this out when I was in the Boy Scouts the troop leader while we were camping in Cuyamaca and San Diego he told us to eat fresh garlic a couple of cloves circulating through your system when the skeeters land on you they fly away they don’t like garlic. Some of the kids did not eat garlic at night they were slapping their selves silly keeping the skeeters away it works that’s my two cents.🕶

[@hoodwinkedbyanangelmichaelfazi]

This is true, I eat a bulb a day and rarely ever get a bite.

[@flyingdutchman913]

Was his name Big Gay Al, by chance?

[@louiselou9703]

@@hoodwinkedbyanangelmichaelfazi wouldnt that taste so bad tho?

[@vitalijslebedevs1629]

That much garlic might repel some insects - mosquitos among them, but in high numbers they overcome it anyway, it's said in this very doc. I love garlic and spicy food, but mosquitos, when warm enough for them to wake up, never ever have left me be without surrounding. Also, if you're not a daily garlic adept, be careful how much you consume at once. It's not just a legume, spice or food. It's literary medicine, affecting your heart rythms and blood pressure. Friend of my mother died right after eating an entire raw garlic for a bet.

[@appolosgeffraus3710]

Love your video

[@imsunasong3912]

Excellant excellant!!

[@tracycase4520]

Have they perfected the B.t.i. water traps?

[@martinzitter4551]

She was here long before we were [sic]. She may outlive us.

[@sabrinafelber607]

Thank you science mosquitos love me for some reason.

[@kainoaho4287]

@26:24 they mention spraying a particular larvaecide. Anyone know what they actually sprayed? Mahalo

[@SandrasSpicySpanishSalami]

*_>"Dude, I heard there are mosquitoes in Africa that can KILL YOU!"_* *_>"Can you imagine how big those things must be to kill a human?!"_*

[@SandrasSpicySpanishSalami]

@My Videos. *-Google it my dude-* *Yes*

[@peterkimemiah9669]

Never seen them. But people die from malaria.

[@kiwitrainguy]

I hear that there are also man-eating ants.

[@precisiont5188]

In the Merida jungle I was bitten by many mosquitoes just about every day. It may be the reason for some health complications.

[@kristovapalenkova5884]

Scary to think about it. Scary that ur comment could have truth to it. Probably, mosquitos could be the cause of many issues in humans and they don't even realize it being caused by a stupid dumb butthole mosquito

[@precisiont5188]

Yeah. Good point.

[@kirstinstrand6292]

​@@kristovapalenkova5884 I grew up in Minnesota where we had lots of mosquitoes. At night, maybe in the high season, trucks would spray DDT . My mom would shut all windows in the house to minimize damage. Eventually, they outlawed DDT.

[@loretta_3843]

I keep scratching during this! My dad and one of my brothers never had bother from mosquitoes. It was infuriating to experience!

[@mattersolution770]

If you don't mind Could you react to this powerful Scientific Fact About Mosquitos 🦟🦟🔬🔍📖 😊

[@shaunbarnett2972]

I noticed that whenever I was drinking a lot of alcohol mosquitoes would leave me alone. I believe they were repelled by the smell of alcohol coming out of my skin.

[@mattersolution770]

@@shaunbarnett2972 nope, simply 🦟🦟🦟didn't find what they need on your blood.

[@kiwitrainguy]

@@shaunbarnett2972 Maybe the mosquitos didn't want to get drunk.

[@achatinaslak742]

I think, the most dangerous creature for Earths future is Homo sapiens itself ! Thanks a lot for this interesting video about these marvelous insects.

[@ANTINUTZI]

... "I think that female mosquitoes are fantastic". Uh-huh. Send in *THE MANSQUITO!!!*

[@chrizacuesta8707]

very nice videos

[@AraCarrano]

Thank you David Suzuki

[@tnekkc]

Many times David has narrated scripts he did not understand.

[@AraCarrano]

@@tnekkc True, Just giving Credit to the OC, since this publisher failed to.

[@kevinsavage808]

As anybody thought about cleaning those overpopulated dumps up.

[@rztrzt]

If it can't fly and breed how is it supposed to pass on the modified gene?

[@hpoonis2010]

It would be known as the 'Proclaimer' mosquito which, of course, would walk a thousand miles to procreate.

[@goodvibespatola]

Thanks!

[@jayef10]

Michael Jackson actually looks white in this!

[@trip3139]

Hard to tell but yeah it him ! Shamone

[@richy5913]

Where's he at?

[@budgetking2591]

i just got bitten by one, now all i can do is pray the person she bit before doesnt have some crazy disease........

[@butterflyladeda1080]

Why do these fools dismiss insects by anthropomorphizing them.

[@joeKisonue]

Logan is a true hero! He should get an award and a bridge named after him. Applause 👏 ✌️

[@shoutforit]

Mosquitos in South Asia are bringing new devastating diseases. My close family has suffered from dengue fever and malaria. I really wish I have some means to make a difference and eliminate this nuisance from my homeland

[@spencerlocke7443]

@shoutforit

[@thebrewssouthafrica5812]

Bats, all you need is bats!

[@jaybow5812]

Daggum skeeters.

[@ajjimenez9823]

These creatures are so tiny but perilous and kill human gradually. A blood sucker insect and can cause malaria and the worst a dengue which is the high risk recoded death cases brought by mosquitoes.

[@suzyrottencrotch5132]

Vaporizers are killing the babes

[@busterbeagle2167]

Aj Jimenez EEE

[@danepilipina8069]

This scientist is so smart I don’t like mosquitoes, rats, flies, and roaches these things carry diseases

[@jeremytice7939]

So do people.

[@joeKisonue]

Correction on wing beat speed closer to 800 times per second. Huge difference. That is all....

[@IXcircle]

So, I'm moving to Antarctica.

[@warcommentary8025]

You can move to Iceland too

[@joeKisonue]

Know I know those scenes of professionals slapping mosquitoes was staged as there are no mosquitoes at UC Irvine. Ha ha

[@epicon6]

The Aedes mosquitoes are most dangerous when they hear the song by Huey Lewis: Hip To Be Square.

[@shannonkerr5816]

is anyone else impressed by how well they dissect and operate with these tiny insect...

[@Shootafromdat65]

Put the pipe down shannon🤣

[@margaretchabot2692]

West Nile has the wood in the skin

[@joeKisonue]

I've spent hours studying and poisoning mosquitoe larvae. Watch, squirt some WD-40 , watch them recoil as they come in contact, smile.

[@moshethezealot7205]

Global warming is like a season. We won't best it! Only prepare for it. Can't stop summer lol

[@jeffreysousa1104]

Come on, this is obviously Dave

[@dude...are-you-sure]

Are there any entomologists reading these posts can help answer this question. When mosquito's are born, are they already carrying diseases or do they have to bite someone who is infected to then be able to spread the disease?

[@kiwitrainguy]

I think that was explained in the video. The mosquito has to get the disease from an animal or human who already has the disease.

[@cloudmacflorud113]

what's in Antarctica that they fear ?

[@kiwitrainguy]

Ice and plenty of it.

[@jubrajtoolsie680]

People like dinosaurs but they don't appreciate the one we have the mosquito? If mosquitoes went extinct instead of dinosaurs I'm sure scientists would be trying to bring them back for no reason.

[@TheDutchGhost]

Mosquito Park? An hour and a half of movie of Grant and the other characters constantly being bit by mosquitoes?

[@trip3139]

22:33 Some fetish eh

[@homelesstonyhawk8329]

1000th like

[@Will-nc2bb]

24:58 Micheal Jackson

[@Wuisini]

this bihh really said the mosquitoes beautiful

[@martindvk8792]

24:59 unexpected xd

[@bingeltube]

Very recommendable! Humanity may have to decide of about the fate of dangerous blood suckers! Can we eliminate dangerous bloodsuckers without risking severe consequences?

[@NickanM]

A lot if different bird species will get extinct. 😔

[@bingeltube]

@@NickanM how many bird species feed exclusively on mosquitoes? Thus, extinction is more a scare tactic than reality, I suppose!

[@immanuelweaver4522]

I always liked mosquitos even though they bug me sometimes!

[@budgetking2591]

thats weird

[@immanuelweaver4522]

@@budgetking2591 I love all living creatures. I don't judge.

[@habibamustafa1127]

Wahahahahahahahaha I really didn't know that insects also does flirt n foreplay n oh oh uses the tops ahahahahahahahahaha😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 woooohhh I'm dead😂😂😂😂😂😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

[@joeKisonue]

On a different video they reported 6 parts on the business end . 2 cutting 2 spreading 2 sucking

[@dankgenetics3671]

They took Franco from strain hunters

[@mackeilsolomon571]

Did he say Michael Jackson lol

[@teddabutto4158]

but could you not play that mosquite sound every two seconds THANK YOU!

[@carlroberts4963]

Why.the.expriment.with Mosquito.bees.makes.them More.deadely.for.tropical Countries.

[@Epic_C]

Did I just watch mosquitos get down and dirty?

[@neilclaypoole7529]

Why not just work on a vacation against the disease instead of poisoning which always back fires on us

[@kiwitrainguy]

A good trivia question for stumping people: What is the usual food of mosquitos? Everyone will say blood, but actually it is nectar.

[@robertmorin6495]

The usual food of the male mosquito is nectar. Females feed on blood according to the video. Watch it again.

[@mohammedawad6806]

..ehh ? Michael Jackson, i heard a lot about you..Man in the Mirror and Billy Jeans is me favorite...wow you soo white..Stop whitening skin menn..By the way: Good project, keep us safe..absolute king, multitasking Pop-up ;) see ya ..

[@tomasandreas7939]

I hate how mosquitoes were harmed in the making of this documentary.

[@Rebecca-zr3lu]

Blessings in an abundance of the faith. I salute you. 😘✝️🙏👣🗞️🛟 Grace and peace be unto you and to this place. Thank you for protection. Thank you for healing from blood borne diseases and pathogens and protection. Thank you Father God that you protect us at all times no matter where we are. Thank you for deliverance. In Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for love. Amen 🙏 🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️🕯️🕯️🕯️💌 Will you believe and receive Jesus Christ as your lord and personal saviour??? I do. 😊

[@busterbeagle2167]

EEE

[@sleeplessmax]

I've actually never been bitten and I'm offended. Am I no good? 😭😂

[@a-aron1139]

You have never had a itchy bump on you?

[@peterkimemiah9669]

Come over to Africa....you could have what it takes as repellent, then you can make it big by patenting your body smell. Just a thought.

[@phoiaikonyak8672]

I wish they walk not fly atleast 😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤

[@indranim2548]

I ❤ mosquitoes

[@mosquitolover1234]

I love them more

[@joeKisonue]

Is she after men vs women? Blonde vs Brunette? Everyone vs Me. Yeah it's the last one.

[@joeKisonue]

The world needs more homosexual mosquitoes please mother nature. Pretty please with pink hair🦟🌈⚧️🔻🏳️‍🌈🏁😇😇

[@clownshoe69]

Are there any gay lgtb mosquitos?