It all started when an intrepid Taobao Field Reporter @drunkula linked to a Taobao shop that sold mosquitos. I usually get super excited to see freaks selling freaky things. But something wasn’t right about it. Why were they selling mosquitos? It was a clothing shop. Also, their mosquito product description was a little too fanciful to be legit.

That led me to an article which traces the origins of the mosquito craze (中文). Turns out that these shops are just trying to catch in on the tidal wave of mosquito interest.

I did some more investigation to see if anyone was actually selling real mosquitos on Taobao. If you want to get your hands on some bloodsuckers, go directly to this guy. He sells them as food for the rest of his super creepy inventory of spiders and frogs. The spiders made me tinkle in my pantaloons. But the frogs are awesome. Check this guy out:

I think he should be called Ambassador Hank.  Have a better name? Leave it in the comments.

Fake hand-killed mosquitos

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