Evolution doesn't work that way. They don't evolve X because of Y. They develop essentially random mutations, and the ones that make them fitter for survival get passed on to their offspring. They don't get to decide that they don't want you to itch and then evolve that ability.
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I meant as the ones that have mutations that cause them to itch get whacked, the remaining ones that dont get to pass on this trait to their offspring,creating a generation of itchless bugs, not that this mosquito one day decides to evolve a non itching bite because he thinks it might benefit his bloodline.
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Most mosquito bites I get I don’t find out about until hours later.
They didn't need to.
They do a really shitty job of 'not irritating' your skin. They get it right half the time. The only biological success they've had in evolution is that they are so freaking numerous. Ask a northern Ontarian Indigenous person who grew up in rocky swamps ... you haven't seen mosquitoes until you've breathed in clouds of them.
You speak truth.
Hello from the hell-swamps of Louisiana, where it’s Summer for 8-10 months a year and the mosquitos are an omnipresent scourge.
Bonus swarm: termite flights so densely packed that they show up as “weather” on radar.
Our summers up here are at their peak in June and July and on hot still windless evenings if you are caught out in the wild, it's torturous. I can't imagine what it would be like down there with a longer hot season. There's a city near here called North Bay where every July the city on the shores of a large lake gets infested with swarms of shad flies, harmless bugs but so thick and numerous that the place ends up smelling like a giant tin of tuna.
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That sounds awful. How do you guys manage? Just stay indoors?
I gave up on anything but DEET years ago. If they're real bad though even that sometimes isn't enough. That's face net and baggy full body clothing time.