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[–] msage@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So like how big mosquitos are we talking about?

About crabhead ticks?

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Mosquitos are kind of modern, being only 45 million years old, way after the megafauna bugs died.

but think 40cm long, meter wide "dragonflies", half-meter long "scorpions", 60cm "spiders" with knifelike front legs and 250cm long millipedes (technically not an insect, but eh)

But if you're looking for giant mosquitoes, you're in luck: the very much not-extinct elephant mosquito can grow over 1.5cm long.

[–] msage@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

Dragonflys don't scare me, but if we got same proportional upgrades to anything that regularly bites, I would move underground.