Photo taken on Jun 11, 2012 | Photo by Andrei Katrovskiy

At sunset, hordes of tiny vampires raised from under the grass. The thickening clouds of blood-suckers brought into my mind some feature of “Pitch Black”. In the movie, lots of carnivorous creature of different sizes went out from under the soil in darkness, these creatures attacked every living thing they found. I thought that the idea for the scenario could be born on a bog… they just made it a little bit less desperate than reality :). Movies creatures ate each other, you could kill one creature to distract the rest of the pack by its meat, working light scared the attackers away (with mosquitos, it works reversely). Death from bites was quick. Too easy...

When I shared this with Andrey, I found that he had similar thoughts.

And we also thought: why nature never invented a blood-sucker with such a feature: a bite which would cause not crazy itching but pleasure. The food would run into places with such insects, thus the latter would have great profit from that :).

family Mosquitoes Culicidae