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[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 month ago

Great, now I have to be careful what mosquitos I fuck

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Just wear a condom. Or are you receiving?

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago

Mosquitos are known for being pretty big on penetration. It’s their thing, and they’re always the active participant.

[-] Goretantath@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

The rapists of the bug world.

[-] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

That would actually be bed bugs who solely reproduce through traumatic insemination, where they literally have knives for dicks and just repeatedly stab the female to nut in their body cavity.

Nature uh ... Finds a way ...

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

But also technically women, little extra trauma for the boys

[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They don’t make any small enough

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago

So, it killed 90% of the females...but does that mean that the 10% that survived will go on to produce resistant offspring? This sounds no different than every other attempt they've made at eradicating mosquitoes.

[-] puppycat 22 points 1 month ago

they're turning the frogs gay and giving the 'squitoes STDs!

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Now I've got malaria and the clap! Thanks Obama!

[-] skye@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

how the tables have turned. We went from using Malaria to 'cure' STDs (syphilis), and now we're using STDs to get rid of Malaria

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I hate when they do this with bugs because it will be impossible to contain if it goes wrong. You can't quarantine from or cull super herpes infected mosquito swarms.

[-] ThoGot@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The problem before was that it was impossible to not "contain" it if it goes right (at least with the previous sterilisation approaches), because a certain area got rid of mosquitoes too quickly, therefore not spreading that infertility wide enough, and then they just moved in again from other areas.

[-] moodymellodrone@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

"Mosquitoes are the world's deadliest animal. It's believed that they alone, by transmitting disease, have killed half of all human beings who have ever lived,"

That’s a crazy stat, man.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

Yup, this is going to end well.

[-] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

did they let Larry sleep with the lab mosquitos again?

[-] alaphic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The genophage!?!

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

How do they spray the males? It's only the females that come to drink your blood

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Is it possible for the disease to mutate so it can infect non-mosquitos? The disease would have many opportunities if its in the fluids mosquito spits into what ever it bites.

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