Comment by pazimzadeh
Comment by pazimzadeh a day ago
I worked in Raymond St. Leger’s lab for a short time in college. I can pass along any questions you have, and will send him the link to this discussion.
Comment by pazimzadeh a day ago
I worked in Raymond St. Leger’s lab for a short time in college. I can pass along any questions you have, and will send him the link to this discussion.
Great work! Does this method have any distinct advantages over infecting mosquitos with Wolbachia? Thank you.
Tell them to keep up the good work. The only good mosquito is a dead mosquito! I'm doing my part!
Except for all the living things that eat mosquitos, and which in turn get eaten by other things, or eat other pests besides mosquitos
> Except for all the living things that eat mosquitos, and which in turn get eaten by other things, or eat other pests besides mosquitoes
The mosquitoes that cause disease in humans are almost uniquely ecologically useless [1]. Particularly in North America, where the Aedes aegypti mosquito is "believed to have arrived to the Americas during the 17th century by ship during the slave trade" [2].
“Is there any living person that eats rice and nothing else? There seems to be no shortage of other grains in the world for humans to munch on.”
Obviously then, eliminating rice would have catastrophic consequences.
They can eat something else, we can make them mosquito shaped dietary supplements if they want.
We've driven almost a thousand species to extinction so far, we ought to finally do one that actually deserves it.
Mosquitoes aren't “one specie” though, but rather several thousands.
Also, most of their lives is spent as aquatic larvae, not flying pests.
> “ Unlike pesticides or other chemical control methods that mosquitoes can develop resistance to, this method uses the mosquitoes’ own biology to deliver the control agent.”
I don’t understand why mosquitos can develop resistance to chemicals but not a fungal infection, regardless of the delivery method. Can Raymond shed some light on this?