A photo of 1 million mosquitos posted on Facebook by the Lee County Mosquito Control District in Florida freaked out everyone on social media this week, as officials filled up an entire 5-gallon bucket of the creatures.
"Ever wonder what 1 million mosquitoes looks like??" the agency said. "Check out the results of an LCMCD trapping project that took place in one section of one neighborhood on Sanibel Island over the summer of 2021."
The humungous pile of bugs was measured at about 8 inches tall and about 18 inches wide.
The LCMCD website says that "Lee County’s many acres of salt marsh and other wetlands are some of the most prolific mosquito breeding habitats on Earth."
Sanibel Island sits on the Gulf of Mexico, and is 25 miles from Fort Myers and 159 miles from Tampa.
The Lee County Mosquito Control District has been around since 1958, doing everything it can to provide mosquito control services to the area.
Officials didn't clarify how the mosquitos were trapped and killed, but they claim on their website to specialize in developing new technologies to get rid of the bugs.
Comments on the Facebook post asked plenty of logical question, and a couple people were even wondering where they can get a similar trap to fight off mosquitos at their homes.
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