This is what happens inside your skin when a mosquito bites

WASHINGTON — The footage below shows exactly what happens inside your skin when you’re bitten by a mosquito.

What looks like a brown needle is actually a mosquito snout, and what looks like pebbles is actually the skin cells of a mouse’s flesh, reports National Geographic.

The footage was taken at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where Valerie Choumet and colleagues used a microscope to watch mosquitoes bite a flap of skin on an anesthetized mouse.

Check out the video:

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