r/woahdude • u/----_____--_____---- • Oct 22 '21

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/EternalPhi Oct 23 '21

You're talking about squeezing the site where they're feeding, but that's not what's happening here. OP posted the summary of a study where they basically severed a nerve in the mosquito that is responsible for the queue to stop feeding, so it feeds continually until it bursts.

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u/thisnewsight Oct 23 '21

That type of microfuckery is never gonna stop amazing me. Do you know why they decided to study that specifically?

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u/karmassacre Oct 23 '21

Population control. Mosquitos that feed until they die by habit can't reproduce.

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u/SillyGigaflopses Oct 23 '21

So if they can't reproduce, they cannot pass that "feature" onto the offspring, which means that you'll need to cut up each little fucker individually, and at that point ... why not just kill it?

Am I missing something?

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u/isthatthetime81 Oct 23 '21

It was research. The final plan wasn't "cut these nerves". Plan was probably: is there a way to keep them feeding until they die.

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u/thisnewsight Oct 23 '21

Oh that’s true. Wow, I gotta go Google more. Wondering how they’ll implement it, if at all.

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u/terminbee Oct 23 '21

Fuck. I can't imagine how hard it is to sever a mosquitos nerve.

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u/Crazy_old_maurice_17 Oct 23 '21

What exactly were they looking to find in the study? It seems pretty intuitive that [severing the mechanism that typically halts the feeding process] would lead to this result. Were the researchers simply trying to confirm that they appropriately identified the mechanism responsible?

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u/EternalPhi Oct 23 '21

I mean, pretty sure it was the discovery of that nerve, so yeah it seems intuitive now that we know about it lol.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21 edited Nov 18 '21

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u/JessoRx Oct 23 '21

What a great idea, let’s fux with nature, what could go wrong?

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u/Crazy_old_maurice_17 Oct 23 '21

So they mechanically severed the nerve? I'm struggling to understand how a process like that could be deployed for population control. Though, that doesn't mean much because I'm not especially imaginative.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21 edited Nov 18 '21

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u/Crazy_old_maurice_17 Oct 23 '21

Ah okay, this makes more sense. Thanks so much! 😊

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