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You have to wonder about how they take pictures like this. Maybe a box full of mosquitos: "stick your arm in here - for science" then "quick! Put your arm here. Don't move. Don't even breathe".
Are you sure on the "don't breathe?" Don't mosquitoes detect gases in breath?
It literally is a box full of mosquitoes lol.
Researchers do stick their hands in, and they absolutely breathe because the enclosures can be used to selectively control the air exchange and you sometimes need to elicit a response.
You're correct that mosquitoes find us in big part by detecting the co2 we expel during respiration.
The bastards, the only way to avoid them is when you stop breathing.
I was thinking that you have to hold very still for macrophotography like that to come out so clear.
A friend of mine is a biologist researching mosquitos. He travelled twice a year to the Amazon to catch mosquitos for his research and his method was exposing a leg and catch them while they bite him. He ended up like 4 or 6 months on the hospital with malaria, a couple of months after release he relapsed again, it didn't made medical sense for it, so they checked him and he had cancer. Another year of medical treatments and got better. He looks 10 years after all of that, but got a permanent position as a professor and he's still researching mosquitos but now is other people going to the Amazon to capture them.