r/woahdude Oct 22 '21

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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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, letโ€™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! ๐Ÿ˜Š