Ouch!Pumping... ![]() The pain in a mosquito bite is not from the "puncture", but from the irritation of the anti-coagulant the mosquito injects. There is research afoot to produce syringes that mimic the mosquito's "needle". Its size is about 60 micrometers, where the smallest needles we make for medical use are well over 150 micrometers...
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Ouch, scratch scratch...
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