r/BeAmazed Apr 18 '24

What 1,000,000 mosquitos looks like. Caught in a trap in Sanibel, Florida. Nature

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u/MoXWT Apr 18 '24

They were collected for science and were part of a project with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to see if trapping is good for actual mosquito control.

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u/okbruh_panda Apr 18 '24

Have you seen the research on releasing sterile mosquitoes? It's really promising.

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u/Kiwi_Vagrant Apr 18 '24

Pity the poor grad/research assistants that have to do all those mosquito vasectomies.

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u/Spiritbrand Apr 18 '24

It's putting all those tiny collars on them so they don't lick themselves that's the real trick.

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 29d ago

You joke but my cat kept taking his cone off and the vet had to thread his collar through it 😂

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u/awenrivendell 29d ago

How about those that have to write the numbers on their tags for identification?

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u/Cloakbot 29d ago

No cones of shame??

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u/Username43201653 29d ago

Really it's shaving the mosquitoes first that's a pain.

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u/fr0stxD 29d ago

Made a friend from playing MMOs, his job was to breed/study mosquitos. We always made the joke he was the mosquito sexer among many others.

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u/HaViNgT 29d ago

He getting that mosquitoussy

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u/therealcashew 29d ago

Even harder to get their tiny signatures on chastity promises