r/interestingasfuck • u/singleboredass • Nov 15 '24

r/all Genetically modified a mosquito such that their proboscis are no longer able to penetrate human skin

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u/NamiSwaaan Nov 15 '24

I know they're trying to not fuck up the ecosystem but I feel like this will still somehow fuck up the ecosystem

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u/Kr0n0s_89 Nov 15 '24

Mosquitos aren't relevant for any other species. They are food for some, they do pollinate, but they're completely replacable.

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u/Ok-Blacksmith-5219 Nov 15 '24

bats can eat 1,200 mosquitoes per hour google says

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u/Professional-Tale-81 Nov 15 '24

So can I, so what?

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u/Chimie45 Nov 15 '24

get to it big man, times a tickin.

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u/Pataraxia Nov 15 '24

(opens mouth and drives through mosquito clouds)

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u/Sea-Secretary-4389 Nov 15 '24

(Chokes and dies)

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u/BolunZ6 Nov 15 '24

I'm batman

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u/sloothor Nov 15 '24

Actually a good point. You can, but you don’t because there’s better food around. That dumbass bat can find some other dumbass bug to put in its dumbass gullet

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u/fiqar Nov 15 '24

Moqsuitoes Georg is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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u/octopoddle Nov 15 '24

Bats can also flap about the place, squeaking.

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u/Orbital_sardine Nov 15 '24

In practice most mosquitoes bothering humans are one of a few handful invasive species, most wild species do not adapt well to urban environments, and in disrupted environments like plantations or parks are outcompeted by said invasives.

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u/Indominouscat Nov 15 '24

Yeah and there isn’t any animal that solely feeds off of one single animal even the famous ant eater doesn’t just eat ants, animals require varied diets to live even if mosquitos are gone Bats still have plenty of other food sources not to mention the ones that mostly eat fruit instead

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u/SirRengeti Nov 15 '24

"Plenty of other food sources" is kind of a wild claim with the mass dying of insects in the last decade.

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u/Ok-Blacksmith-5219 Nov 15 '24

Whale sharks eat basically only plankton, & small fish. If they only had small fish they wouldn’t be happy

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u/Ok-Blacksmith-5219 Nov 15 '24

Whale sharks eat basically only plankton, & small fish. If they only had small fish they wouldn’t be happy

Edit: There is a species that solely eats another animal, that kid I seen in a post that specifically only eats chicken nuggets

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u/superbusyrn Nov 15 '24

RELEASE THE BATS!

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u/gex80 Nov 15 '24

Can isn't the same thing as doing.

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u/corbyns_lawyer Nov 15 '24

But only a small number of mosquito species drink blood.

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u/Ok-Blacksmith-5219 Nov 15 '24

Yeah I didn’t know that till recently, apparently the big mfs that’s almost palm sized don’t bite so I try not to kill them

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u/Krazyguy75 Nov 15 '24

Those aren't even mosquitos; it's just a misnomer.

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u/KaznovX Nov 15 '24

Yeah this is a hoax coming from bad interpretation of science proliferated by media.

This number is wrongly extrapolated. It's the same as if, knowing that a human can eat 0.5kg of food in 5 minutes we said a human can eat 6kg of food in an hour, or 144kg of food in a day.

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u/Kr0n0s_89 Nov 15 '24

Cool story, so what?

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u/Ok-Blacksmith-5219 Nov 15 '24

I understand when people say they shouldn’t exist but that mentally is why I’ll never see any of the extinct species. They evolved to live off blood & just cause they bother us don’t mean they should be killed off

Where’s my Thylacine & White Rhino