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.
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
Drug turns human blood into poison.
I mean, isn't it?
Alice Cooper approved ✅✅✅
until they adapt to it and become poison mosquito zombies
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...
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.
Could this be an effective way to treat ned bug infections? If it works fast enough, it should wipe out active bed bugs.
Doesnt killing mosquitoes cause a bunch of environmental problems? Thats what everyone says when you talk about genociding them.
Let's all agree to just take our chances
I'm in, screw them
Hell yeah.
Yeah. But a lot of animals rely on mosquitos for foods.
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
Release the hounds!
dies from overdose
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.
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