Justine Larbalestier

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Listen, mosquitoes!

I know that you mozzies have an ecological niche to fill. I’m sure that if you were wiped out some fabulous bird species would become extinct. I even get that my blood is your food. I’m not thrilled when you bite my hands and feet, my arms, legs, back and belly, none of that is exactly fun, but for the love of Elvis—could you stop biting my ears?

My EARS?!

Is that really too much to ask?

Posted by Justine at 13:23, 10 June 2008 under Whingeing | 19 Comments »

Comments

  1. cuileann Says:

    Oh heavens. Such barbaric insects. Australian diminuitives really do make me happy, though.

    June 10th, 2008 at 1:42 PM

  2. Chris S. Says:

    Also, the bottoms of our feet are OFF LIMITS!

    June 10th, 2008 at 2:57 PM

  3. Dave Hogg Says:

    I’ll take ears if they will stay away from my eyelids!

    June 10th, 2008 at 3:47 PM

  4. 4. Justine Says:

    Those are also bad. I’d also like to know why I am covered in bites and Scott has none.

    June 10th, 2008 at 4:51 PM

  5. Dess/Bethany Says:

    Maybe your smell attracts them or his smell detracts them…

    June 10th, 2008 at 7:45 PM

  6. chris barnes Says:

    Ah, looks like you’re one of the people put on this planet to attract the mozzies away from the rest of us. For which we thank you.

    Actually, mozzies only drink blood to nurture their eggs. For themselves, they mostly live on nectar like other insects. Not that that’s any consolation.

    June 10th, 2008 at 8:29 PM

  7. Kenina-chan Says:

    The worst bites are on the earlobe and on the heel of your foot. I’m one of those people who gets bitten in the winter.

    June 10th, 2008 at 8:53 PM

  8. 8. Justine Says:

    Chris: Wait. You’re telling me my blood is being used to make MORE mozzies? Elvis wept.

    Kenina: Me too! I’m starting to think mozzies hate girls. Or, rather, really love us.

    June 10th, 2008 at 9:14 PM

  9. Dess Says:

    I aways get bitten in the strangest places. Places like the soles of your feet are the worst becuase you can’t really scratch them with shoes on. I think i have a bite on or near my eye too. PAIN!!!

    June 10th, 2008 at 9:42 PM

  10. capt. cockatiel Says:

    I always get bites on my back. T-shirts just aren’t enough to fend them off, I guess. Or something. My worst memories of mosquitoes are from when I was in Alaska a few years ago in the summer and I would sleep under all the covers, with them over my head, in a sad attempt not to get bitten in the night. It didn’t work well. And it was hot. And at the phone booth (we were literally staying on the outskirts of a national park) I would have to dance around while on the phone with my mother. That didn’t work to keep them off, either.

    June 10th, 2008 at 10:18 PM

  11. caitlin Says:

    Sorry, folks Mozzies don’t bite me either. No idea why … someone needs to write a story about this…

    June 10th, 2008 at 10:53 PM

  12. sash Says:

    apparently eating bananas and having b type blood attracts the little suckers to you. I’ve also heard something about being low in vitamin b.
    it’s a ‘b’ thing obviously.

    June 10th, 2008 at 11:21 PM

  13. the dragonfly Says:

    I’m a mosquito magnet. *sigh* People like when I go camping with them ’cause the mozzies swarm me and leave everyone else alone.

    June 11th, 2008 at 12:13 AM

  14. rebecca Says:

    some people just have that magical ability to repel mosquitoes. my grandmother never ever gets bitten, but the rest of us get eaten alive. you can’t really go outside in the summertime down here unless you a) keep moving or b) are going swimming. i’m a bit surprised they have them in nyc–it seems like such a non-mosquitoey place. :P

    June 11th, 2008 at 1:05 AM

  15. Amy Says:

    I, too, am a mosquito magnet, but I shall share my hard-earned knowledge with you, grasshoppa.

    Cut down on sugar, and eat more garlic. Yes, it really is that simple. The garlic has the added bonus of keeping vampires away; of course, it’ll probably keep Scott away, too, so tell him to indulge in more garlic along with you!

    June 11th, 2008 at 11:21 AM

  16. 16. Justine Says:

    Amy: That’s deeply hilarious. You would not believe how much garlic I eat. My bare minimum is a head of garlic a day. The night I woke up with 26 new mozzie bites I’d used five whole garlic heads in the dinner I made for us. According to my data mozzies LOVE garlic.

    June 11th, 2008 at 12:51 PM

  17. Amy Says:

    Curses! Foiled again!

    Seriously, it’s always worked for me. Sorry I wasn’t more of a help!

    June 11th, 2008 at 2:08 PM

  18. him Says:

    a spoon of vegie for breakfast!

    June 11th, 2008 at 6:53 PM

  19. Elodie Says:

    Eating less sugar REALLY does help. I’ve always been a salt more than a sugar girl, and my friends on the other hand are all over candy and such, and I always get much less bites than them :D
    Also, why guys are safe from mosquitoes: They have MANLY HAIR which is like a forest for those mosquitoes, so they can’t get through it! (at least, that’s the logic me and my family have come up with XD)

    June 13th, 2008 at 6:01 PM

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