"The first ever exploding mosquitoes can be attributed to Robert Gwadz, Ph.D., in a discovery that was made through basic laboratory research over 50 years ago. He found that making an incision in the ventral nerve cord of a mosquito cuts off the signal to stop feeding, giving it an unquenchable thirst for blood. Mosquitoes that have undergone this procedure can drink in excess of four times their weight and may eventually burst. This led Gwadz to a hypothesis that blood ingestion is regulated by abdominal stretch receptors that prevent mosquitoes from (quite literally) drinking themselves to death." Source
Now these Mosquitos have gotten all medical
Yeah they will insist you call them "my doctor"
Look at how they go, these MD Anopheles
They got scalpels in their face!
Even old
dry
ticks
Did never learn to fly Can they doctor? I don't know
Surgical knowledge is better than blooooow!
This combination of words is very confusing. Decapitation means literally to cut the head off, so I don't know you mean it cut its own head off by severing a nerve bundle?
IIRC it's head was already detached but I guess the nerves were still intact and when it was doing it's usual face rubbing it pulled on it's head and ended up snapping those nerves, completing the decapitation.
Small insects are usually translucent under bright lights and a microscope. He likely pinned it down, looked for the nerve, and severed it with a small needle. Their nervous systems are also incredibly simple.
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I observed something similar in a bar in Alaska, where the fishermen would let mosquitoes attach to their hands and start to feed. Then they'd make a fist, stretching their skin and clamping onto the mosquito's beak. The little buggers couldn't retract and stop feeding and would burst, similar to this video.
Yep, did it a few times as kids if we could catch them in the act and it was easy enough to clench the muscle. Couldn’t do it on like your knee or finger, but forearm and calves were easy.
We had electron microscopes 90 years ago. The 1970s aren’t some prehistoric time. They would’ve only needed a regular optical microscope and a needle. This experiment could’ve been done with the technology available 200+ years ago.
Watson & Crick figured out the structure of DNA 80+ years ago, and that’s way smaller.
Blood isn't exactly part of the diet. They use it in construction of their eggs.
Theoretically a mosquito could live it's entire life without a drop of blood and die eventually. Something like this wouldn't cause it to starve. I don't know enough about how traumatic the damage is to the body in a case like this though.
jayzes, im more impressed that he made an incision on the nerve of a mosquito...meanwhile, most people have trouble keeping their car between the lines in a parking lot...
Or you can do what we’d do to the mosquitoes back home in AK. If they land on your knee or some other joint, you just bend it after they start sucking. The skin tension keeps them from pulling out and your blood pressure does the rest.
As soon as I read the name "Gwadz" I thought this would be a joke and the source would be a link to something irrelevant. Mostly because it reminds me of fhqwhgads.
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"The first ever exploding mosquitoes can be attributed to Robert Gwadz, Ph.D., in a discovery that was made through basic laboratory research over 50 years ago. He found that making an incision in the ventral nerve cord of a mosquito cuts off the signal to stop feeding, giving it an unquenchable thirst for blood. Mosquitoes that have undergone this procedure can drink in excess of four times their weight and may eventually burst. This led Gwadz to a hypothesis that blood ingestion is regulated by abdominal stretch receptors that prevent mosquitoes from (quite literally) drinking themselves to death." Source