GALLINIPPER

These huge Florida mosquitoes are described by today's younger generation as 'The Mother of all Mosquitos'. As adults, they can bite through a variety of clothing, and are known to go after both humans and pets.

"It's about 20 times bigger than the sort of typical Florida mosquito that you find," Anthony Pelaez of Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry added. "And it's very mean. It goes after people, and it bites, and it hurts. A bite from a gallinipper is so painful “it feels like you’ve been knifed.”

BUT TO PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE .............................................

NOT QUITE SO SCARY NOW ........................................ IS IT ?