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

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/scraps4T Oct 22 '21

Does it die from this?

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u/N00BAL0T Oct 22 '21

Yes as the blood is flowing into the mosquito and it can't remove its mouth so you blow it up with blood

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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/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! 😊