****Horrifying Mosquito Bite Captured under Microscope****
The horrific video
below shows what actually happens when a mosquito pierces your skin and goes
searching for blood.
It's not just a
stick-it-in-and-suck action like you probably guessed. The mosquito's proboscis
goes searching and probing through layers of your skin to find and infiltrate a
suitable vessel. The cube-shaped objects are skin cells, and the red tubes are
blood vessels.
The proboscis is
flexible and made up of several sections, which split apart when they pierce
the skin. They are sheathed by an outer layer which is pulled back upon insertion. National Geographic blogger Ed Yong
information on how these mouth parts work.
VIDEO:
The mosquito in this
video is the Anopheles gambiae, and they were taken when the mosquito was
biting a mouse, though the same thing happened when they probe for blood under
our skin.
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