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Grey_Area
01/08/09

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How will this affect Mansquito? Or is he already enamored of Mariah Carey?
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corpore-metal
01/08/09

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For some reason this reminds me of the Mosquito people in Mieville's The Scar.
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Grey_Area
01/08/09

@corpore-metal: Loved that part!
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Pope John Peeps II
01/09/09

@corpore-metal: What a lovely book that was. Truly wonderful.
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ThisDudeRufus
01/08/09

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I've always wondered. As humans, we've accidentally wiped out, what, thousands of species? And it's usually unwittingly. So there's one animal that actually gives us stick, and we just take it. And how vital are mosquitoes to the food chain, anyway? They feed frogs, thats basically it.

And if we won't wipe them out, is it too much to ask for to want a genetically modified mosquito to whom human blood is toxic or something? Don't we have scientists?
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Purple Dave
01/09/09

@ThisDudeRufus:
They do serve one useful purpose. They make flies seem downright enjoyable by comparison. Okay, so that's not terribly useful to _us_, but it is to the flies...
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Pope John Peeps II
01/09/09

@ThisDudeRufus: They feed a LOT of things. A lot of birds and bats. And without them - no frogs. And without frogs again, less birds and bats.

It's a pretty important link in the food chain. Mosquitos provide an enormous amount of biomass to be eaten. I would question how wise it is to sterilize their population.
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Ghede
01/08/09

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I'd prefer to have a device that emits the sexy-mosquito sounds only to be a bug-zapper to one-shot sterile mosquito batches. You have to keep creating the sterile Casanovasquito, but the bug zapper you can keep using year after year after year after year... probably not as effective, but it is much more satisfying.

I really hate mosquitos. I am living mosquitobait. I go outside on a spring-fall day, I will come back with at least one new mosquito bite. I would probably get bitten in the middle of the Nevada desert. Somehow.
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Purple Dave
01/09/09

@Ghede:
I concur. I was actually wondering if you played it loud enough, would that prevent them from hooking up in the first place? Like having a drunk Japanese salaryman slaughtering some romantic ballad while you're trying to put the moves on that hottie at the end of the bar.
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Paul_Is_Drunk
01/08/09

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I'm all for it. Has there proven to be a viable niche for this creature, except making me bust out in hives?
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Ghede
01/08/09

@Paul_Is_Drunk: Well, as a vector for many fatal or incapacitating illnesses across several species, I suppose they could count as population control.
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Gann
01/09/09

@Paul_Is_Drunk: As many of them as there are, I'm sure they're food for something.
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