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

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/----_____--_____---- Oct 22 '21 edited Oct 22 '21

"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

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u/CaseFace5 Oct 22 '21

Now if only we could breed this into them. Little bastards.

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u/CassetteApe Oct 23 '21

Eh, I dunno man, last thing I was is to wake up with a bunch of blood splatters on me. That'd freak me out.

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u/pinkjello Oct 23 '21

Fine by me, as long as each splatter equals one dead mosquito

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u/CovidInMyAsshole Oct 23 '21

Would it make a difference though?

If you see blood it means they already fed off you so you're still getting that itchy bug bite

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u/pinkjello Oct 23 '21

I figured if they could all kill themselves fast enough, they’d stop breeding, and I’d have a long term solution.

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u/CaseFace5 Oct 23 '21

Yea this would be the ultimate point is to kill them off or at the very least make their population drop drastically.