Just a random shower thought.

Mosquito’s proboscis is sharp enough to penetrate your skin. So when you smack it while it is in the process of drawing your blood, isn’t there a chance of its proboscis being forcefully jammed into your skin, leading to some sort of “splinter”? Or does it somehow loses its stiffness the moment it feels the impact?

I’ve never encountered nor heard of such occurrence in my lifetime of killing those buggers, but wondering if such a thing is even possible. If such could happen, I could only imagine the risk associated with having a piece of foreign organic matter being embed in the body

  • WeeSheep@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I had this happen to me when I was a kid. I was able to get it out with tweezers pretty easily though. It was so small I highly doubt it would have caused issues outside of itching.