When a mosquito stings you at what time do you feel the sting?

Answer 1

The time required for the person to feel the sting depends on the immune reaction of the person stinged. Could be within a very short period after mosquito has injected its chemicals, or can be delayed a little longer.

You see, the mosquito "stings" not to inflict pain (like the bees do) but mosquitoes "sting" with the main purpose of sucking blood. They can do that as gentle as they can that nothing can be felt.

After piercing its proboscis (functions like a syringe), it injects its anticoagulant-containing saliva to prevent blood clotting and to ease sucking of the blood.

When your immune reaction reacts with such chemical injected, that is the time you will feel its sting as it will cause varying degree of itchiness.

In my case, my immune system is hypersensitive that I can feel the sting before the mosquito finishes its "sucking business". Others' immune system may react a bit late, and there are some who do not react so they may not know they had been stinged by mosquito.

(Experiencewise though, there are few larger mosquito that can make a painful sting so you will know right away something is stinging.)

Answer 2

lani_s is completely correct. I just want to add that it also varies by mosquito species.

There are many different types of mosquito, and each of them has their own peculiarities and ecology. Some of them specialize in feeding on large mammals, some specialize in birds, and some even stick to reptiles or amphibians.

Each of the different species is also variable in their 'stealth' abilities. Some of them are small, fast little zoomers that are highly skilled in zipping in, and skillfully nipping a tiny hole, sucking up a meal, and getting out before you notice.

Other species are larger, slower, and less stealthy. They have larger 'teeth' on their maxillae, and cut themselves a larger hole to stick their proboscis in - and we feel it immediately. On us, that often results in an instant death sentence when they get slapped, but these species are more successful at getting blood meals off large, thick skinned critters like cows and horses, so they survive that way.

The Florida salt marsh mosquito (Ochlerotatus taeniorhynchus) has a notoriously painful bite. They specialize in attacking in a swarm. They rush in all at once, take a big slice, and get as much blood as they can quickly, and take off. With so many biting at once, you can't swat them all.

The stealthy ones, like Aedes vexans, sneak in, get a good position on something like an ankle where you won't notice immediately, and sip carefully, making a very small, surgical nip so you don't notice. Often you don't even realize you've been bitten until the bite starts itching several minutes later.

Answer 3

They don't sting - they bite. And having been bitten on numerous occasions I can tell you that you don't always notice until some time later when the bite starts to itch.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

soon after the female is done feeding. only female mosquitoes bite you. they have an mild numbing chemical in their saliva which they inject into the skin site before they suck so you can't feel it. pretty cool huh?

Answer 6

when a mosquito grows a stinger (they dont sting they poke you with there mouth,,and there siliva has a mild pain killer so they can feed w/o being noticed)

Answer 7

mosquitos do not sting. they bite and you should feel it almost instantly.

Answer 8

you can feel it after 15-30 mins.. i had my own experience and it was said in a news tabloid

Answer 9

i feel about 30 minutes after, but nothing when it actually does!