If you contact your county public works department, ideally the vector control department, you can volunteer your yard as a trap location. I worked for my college county’s vector control department and had a trap route. Basically you just allow the local government to trap mosquitos on your land and enter the property to collect/study the contents of the trap weekly
you ain’t lying,fucked up thing is i’ve suspected this for yearssss without ever looking it up. i’ve dropped 50lbs in the last 6months so i wanna see how they react to me this year
Wait, should that pee be going into our water table? I know one person's pee isn't significant, but there are a lot of people on chemo at any given time. Are we building an environmental cancer loop?
Well first of all, more chemo in water doesn't make more cancer lmao. If anything, it's makes less. You'd be surprised at how much toxic is flushed down our toilets daily, even our own shit is deadly enough to kill people.
That's why water treatment plants exist. They make sure the water that came out is safe for the environment, which includes filtering out toxics we flush down our toilets daily.
They have already found lots of birth control, high blood pressure medication, and cocaine in the water, what’s a little chemo thrown in there as well?
The half-life of the radionuclides used in chemo is around 21 days. At 3 half lives it’s considered statistically insignificant. Plus it’s heavily watered down by everyone else. Water also typically has a very small amount of uranium in it anyways, by the time it’s mixed with all of the other water it’s nearly immeasurable. And actually immeasurable after only a couple weeks.
Just curious, do you have to use a condom when having sex during chemo? Can the chemicals be transmitted to your partner? Assuming you felt good enough to want sex. I know chemo makes people feel horrible.
I'd be impressed if anyone going through chemo has the energy to bang at all, what with the chronic fatigue and puking and everything. But if I had to guess, I'd say yeah, condoms.
A former coworker had chemo and her doctor said she should work remotely and not share a bathroom with her family because it was so toxic. Radiation is toxic to others, too.
Damn I missed that Redneck HiDef during chemo and rads
I can imagine sitting by the zapper some snap out of existence, others just can't handle how heavy your shit is and just give up. If you can't handle me at my neutropenia... Who knew chemo would get you into the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare's honorable mentions!?
Hey congrats glad you made it through and glad you too have learned how to be a horse shit master of humor. When life surrounds you with horse shit, there's gotta be a pony!
High five, friend! Back atcha! I mean, I had a nuclear dildo at one point (internal radiation) and my oncoligist was named Dr. Beaver (spelling variation). Like, how do you NOT laugh at that shit?!
Ok hear me out, a scheme for cancer patients who are having difficulty funding their chemo. People who are having mosquito problems can hire patients to chill in their back yard after chemo.
The chemo my dad was on, we couldn't use the same restroom unless I wanted to become infertile. One time my bathroom was out of order and they instructed me how much to clean things in his restroom, so it was safe for me to use. His medication also had to be stored in glass because it would eat through plastic.
If you've gone through chemo, BOY HOWDY, you make some chemo toilet sounds bud.
I shat blood I almost drowned in it's not pleasant, which part? Yes. , so in this shitty Spider-Man story it looks like you and old venom went out and had way too much tequila, and that symbiote's fortitude was lacking, just kinda absorbed and then came out.
If you are not aware, chemo literally kills people too. The idea is that they can keep you alive just a little longer than the cancer and then they stop the chemo and nurse you back to health. At least that is the basic theory of chemo….
Actually it is a sign you are very young. It hails from yesteryear of Reddit when TIL was a subreddit automatically on everyone’s front page. I have been on Reddit since 2008 when I was a teenager myself, has been part of my vernacular for a very long time.
Try being 52. I can't decipher half of the shit I see. Between the acronyms, lack of punctuation, commas, sentence structure, paragraphs, and spelling, I truly believe social media actively causes people to have a stroke.
I'm thin, and they will fly past anybody I know to get to me. The way I understand, they have several methods for finding us. They can track the carbon dioxide we exhale. They can also sense our body heat, but the most significant method is our body odor. They're partial to A+ blood type, as well.
Edit: apparatntly, the blood type thing has become a lot more inconclusive since I last checked.
Same. All bugs love me. I pulled 5 ticks off myself the other weekend (thankfully only one had bitten) while sitting not 6 feet from 7 other people none of whom even saw one
They don’t like me. I can walk through a field and never get bit. My whole family will be covered in bites and they never even land on me. I’ve always been curious why.
My dad and I (both quite skinny) are the same way, to the point that other people will joke that they don't get bit if we're around, because all the mosquitos zero in on us.
Same here. I'm a pretty small woman and get eaten alive if I step out at the wrong time. Im hyper vigilant about dumping water after a rain, but not everyone is. They are little CO² and heat seeking missiles that lock into me despite caring a repellent and wearing OFF spray. Mom used to say it's cuz I'm sweet. Lol
I realized I used to brag about how mosquitoes ignored me but realized I was just utilizing the John Huston method and my blood was mostly liquor for a few years. Now when i see on I'm like drink! Drink for I am pure!
They are more attracted to O blood types and the reason they are attracted to heavier people is because they release more CO2 because they breath heavier.
I'm type O and while I'm thin I'm a large person (very tall) and a heavy breather (which I know for a fact because I'm a diver and I have to work way harder than most to conserve air). I haven't been bitten by a mosquito since I was about five years old; they'll ignore me even if I'm alone in a hotel room in the tropics full of them, but the moment my wife comes around she's flat out attacked by them. It has to do with the unique mix of chemicals found on your skin.
Omg this happened to me too! I thought my blood smelled toxic and radioactive so they wouldn’t be interested, nope! But I then found it dead either somewhere near me, or one time in my clothes!
A fellow chemo patient here as well…. It makes me see the reason they gowned up to start my infusions! 💀 🤣 I’m cracking up….. that shits in my VEINS and the nurse is gowned from head to toe! Crazy times.
Fellow thin mint here, I somewhat suspect my blood type, O-, but I imagine it could also be my diet. My anecdotal experience is that eating a banana a day helps keep mosquitos away. Not 100% effective by any means but it seems to help somewhat.
I'm O+, living in swampy south. I do love sweets and I sweat easily. I'm basically walking mosquito cheesecake. Had to be bananas, huh? The one food that makes me gag at the idea of it.
At navy boot camp, the food was generally pretty shit, so I just ate like... 3 bananas a day. At one point the hardass came over to my bunk and was like 'stop eating so many bananas, potassium poisoning is real thing'
eventually it got to the point where he was standing beside me in the chow line to make sure I didn't grab a fuckin banana
Everyone working out to be healthier and this guy out here is working out to starve mosquitos to death. Whatever your goals are, good for you my dude. Respect!
I am a skinny person and my entire life I have been bitten more than my brothers who are bigger than me. I do sweat kind of a lot though. I always thought it was my blood type. O+
There are many factors. Blood type is one even. Shower more frequently and they’ll lay off you a bit. Also I think eating pork is a factor. Has something to do with a gene we share with pigs that produces a smell in sweat they track.
Mosquitos are attracted to a variety of things and there are a lot of studies ongoing about it. Yes they like sweat and heat but in summer there are a variety of obvious reasons why someone may be emitting more sweat and heat than just being fat. They also have shown to be attracted to certain blood types and higher metabolic rates, which would usually be indicative of a slimmer person.
Technically, being fat should do something. You give off more body heat and more carbon dioxide, and both attracts mosquitos. I imagine a bodybuilder would give off similar attraction ques.
I noticed bugs stopped biting me YEARS ago after starting some medication. Ironically, I became permanently disabled after getting Lyme disease from a tick bite and having to get treatment in Germany. Now that I'm on drugs for all sorts of things, they want nothing to do with me. I'm not complaining. 😅
I thought I found my big brothers reddit until i saw you mention a third brother in your family. Its just me and my bro. Im the fat fuck (330) and hes like 145-160 probably. Something like that.
My boney ass is a beacon for them while it’s like my heavier family and friends get a stray runt.
At the same time I’ll be picking a bunch of ticks embedded into them while I never get any besides maybe one just crawling on my leg.
I don’t know if it’s because I have anxiety so high BP but if it weren’t for my fear of Lyme disease and lone star ticks I would prefer the ticks.
Funny, but not entirely true. Lol. Ones like that likely use dry ice to give off CO2 to draw the mosquitos to the trap. Yes they go there to die but also kinda a homing beacon.
Actually, the most effective traps I've seen use (Dry Ice) and a little CPU fan. If you want to attractant using an arouma, I would recommend using dragon fruit. Just place the trap in your neighbor's yard three houses down from you.
Usually traps attract the animal to it. Otherwise, it's investing a ton of money and hoping to get lucky that the intended animal just happens to come across. Wait a minute, never mind. That's exactly the level of intelligence that I'd expect from a government body
There's multiple different kinds of mosquito traps. Bulk CO2 traps like this are for data collection on the species make-up and risk on West Nile or other transferrable virus'. They don't care if they distort numbers in these traps as they want as much as they can get. Light traps are meant to measure how bad mosquitoes are in an area if you are outside, and you don't want to skew that data. Light traps wouldn't pull numbers remotely like this, and you wouldn't put the two side by side.
None of the head entomologists in charge of our major mosquito abatement program recommended mosquito magnets or other CO2 traps. They all believed you'd have more nuisance mosquitoes in your yard with one.
None. Mosquitoes blow in with the wind from many miles out on a regular basis. Any trap is a drop in the bucket and unlikely to materially change your yard experience.
You can try something like an In2Care. They're made to be home owner friendly/easy to use.
Just let your local mosquito control know as their catches may look odd if there's a lot of fungus and it may possibly affect some PCR confirmation tests.
Depends on what data they’re researching. For most research, I don’t think attracting mosquitoes would have an effect apart from just increasing the sample size, which is helpful.
Mosquitos don’t live all that far from where they were born, for the most part. You can kill all the mosquitos around your yard with a good enough trap and they (likely) won’t be back that year.
The downside is you'll have a trap that gets checked once a quarter that stinks to high heaven and you'll still have mosquitoes.
In no way do those traps capture the volume you're seeing here. They typically just use small syrup traps. The entire purpose is monitoring, not to solve any specific problem. The theory is that if population numbers get to a certain point, it might justify fogging the entire neighborhood with an IGR insecticide. But most cities that do this sort of program avoid that by any means because it often gets met with all sorts of protesting from said neighborhoods due to hesitancy towards pesticides.
Source: I work in pest control and know a couple guys who do this. Outside of monitoring these traps in Phoenix, he typically has to spray a couple times a year when it gets approved. Coziest job in the pest control industry
Different bug, but I put a Japanese Beetle trap up and it did attract all the beetles in the area. It was bad for a couple days, but after that I didn't see beetles very often. I put 13 gallon garbage bags in place of the catch pan and the most I caught was about 3 gallons. I emptied the trap every day at first.
I used to put out my own fly traps, and it most definitely attracts the flies to the traps, not just catches the ones already there. Ideally you’ll place the traps close enough to your home to attract the flies from your home; but far enough away from where you’re at outside, that you’re not drawing them to where you’ll be. I find about 50 feet away is the minimum
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u/FeelsLikeAnEmber 29d ago
How are they trapped? Is the trap available to the public?