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I wanna go camping with this shit so I can get revenge.
You still get bitten, I’d say it would be a bittersweet win.
It’d be a Pyrrhic victory, no question. Real “I’ll break your fists with my face” energy.
Eventually bugs will adapt and learn not to bit those with ivermectin in their blood.
But the Mosquitoes would still bite you although they died after the bite. 😅
Worth it.
I was trying to find a screenshot of Vincent Vega saying (paraphrasing): “It would’ve been worth him doing it to catch the guy” and stumbled upon a nifty piece of trivia. Apparently Tarantino has confirmed that Butch is the guy who keyed his car! Kinda obvious in retrospect.
You still try to kill them, but at least the ones you miss will end up dying anyways. If enough people do it, maybe mosquitos will evolve to avoid humans entirely lol
Alice Cooper approved ✅✅✅
Drug turns human blood into poison.
I mean, isn’t it?
Could this be an effective way to treat ned bug infections? If it works fast enough, it should wipe out active bed bugs.
Time to unleash my bloodinator-inator!
until they adapt to it and become poison mosquito zombies
That’s some shit
When mosquitoes drink blood that contains nitisinone, the drug also blocks this crucial HPPD enzyme in their bodies. This prevents the mosquitoes from properly digesting the blood, causing them to quickly die.
This is starving not poisoning.
This has the same vibe as “the bullet didn’t kill them, it was the blood loss that got them”
What if the mosquito can’t drink so it goes for a protein bar instead?
a mosquito walks into a protein bar…
The bartender says "why the long nose?x
Sounds like both?
If you look at the mechanisms of poisons, they all mess up some process in the animal or plant.
For example, Glyphosate is a very effective herbicide. It prevents plants from producing some amino aids. It “starves” the plant.
Hell yeah.
Release the hounds!
Yeah. But a lot of animals rely on mosquitos for foods.
Correct, but this would only impact the species that bite humans.
Amazing resource here with a ton of info I did not know:
https://www.livescience.com/what-if-all-mosquitoes-died
To your point, yes:
“mosquitoes are a primary food source for numerous animals, including bats, birds, frogs, fish and dragonflies, it’s likely there would be at least some ecological impacts, at least in the short term. Dragonflies, for example, are often known as mosquito hawks, owing to their ability to eat as many as 100 mosquitoes in a single day. It’s likely they, as well as a host of other critters, would, at the very least, have to change their diets somewhat.”
To the larger point:
“There are around 3,500 mosquito species, but ‘only around 100 will potentially bite and spread disease to humans,’”
So we eliminate the 100 species that bite humans, that still leaves 3,400 species for the bats, birds, frogs, and dragonflies.
In fact, it may not even be necessary to completely elimimate the 100 species that bite humans, kill enough of the biters, and they may evolve into a species that just doesn’t bite us.
kill enough of the biters, and they may evolve into a species that just doesn’t bite us.
Or they evolve into a species that still bites us but is unaffected by this drug. Bonus feature: the new species is also a prime carrier for Ebola, or something.
when the us triples their efforts to increase global warming only rats, cockroaches, mosquitoes, the worst types of flies, and other pests will survive and anything that eats them will die off.
I see you too sing hymns to papa Nurgle
The eldritch guy from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy?
Surely nothing could go wrong…
Can we do this to, idk, horses and dogs or something? That way they get bit and kill all the mosquitoes instead of me getting bit?
I’ll come out after they’re all dead.
dies from overdose
