h a l f b a k e r yOn the one hand, true. On the other hand, bollocks.
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mosquito mobile
Mosquitos form swarms, make a calderesque mobile of micropoints to attract them, then poison, vacuum, or laser them |
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Gnats congregate together in a swarm, and I read that
mosquitos do too.
As a way to control or reduce malaria causing mosquitos
a
calderesque mobile of very tiny points could be hung in
one
corner of a room and coated with poison. mosquitos
entering
the room would join the artificial
swarm and be
poisoned.
Now the really interesting thing is how mosquitos
identify a swarm.
Is it a visual thing or a chemoreceptor thing? If it is a
chemoreceptor thing then this likely could be a mosquito
attractant for regular traps. If it is a visual thing then
you
could use a poison mobile to attract them and wipe them
out.
mosquito swarms
https://www.google....CQ&q=mosquito+swarm
[beanangel, Feb 15 2018]
mesquite swarms
Mesquite_20Gunpowder
[normzone, Feb 15 2018]
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//Now the really interesting thing is how mosquitos identify
a swarm.// That is a very good point. |
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OK, according to the Internet, gnats swarm to mate, and are
attracted to sex hormones produced by females. So, what
you want is not so much a mobile as a gob of female
gnatmone. |
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I wonder how effective it would be to spray
Washington with a crop-duster filled with mosquito
pheromones... |
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A mobile composed of ultrafine rigid bars, and strands of spider silk - each one with a mosquito irreversibly attached to the end - would be a delight. |
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Sit back and watch them all buzz round helplessly, desperately hungry and slowly starving to death. Joyous. |
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A life-sucking hegemonic swarm... I would think
there would be some mutual admiration... |
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Mosquitos definitely aren't hegemonic. They have no organizational structure at all. |
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Social insects like ants and bees are a little better, but not much. Their lack of interstellar travel capability and directed-energy weaponry really does put them right at the bottom rung of the ladder. |
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Which is good, from their point of view, because (a) we hate any sort of competition, (b) we're at the top of the ladder, and (c) it's our ladder. |
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Jacob was just renting it for awhile, then? |
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put up a [link] to swarming mosquitos. There are references online that say the malaria mosquito Anopheles swarms as well. |
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