our mosquito is the most annoying
creatures on the planet or are they
actually the most annoying creatures on
the planet and something else
welcome to watchmojo.com ting down the
five most fascinating facts we could
find about the sometimes pesky sometimes
pestilent little vampires known as
mosquitoes number five the war on
mosquitoes is getting creative here you
can see the laser strike parts of the
mosquito breaking off and the body
falling to the ground researchers have
developed a variety of novel ways to
lure trap and kill these little
bloodsuckers for one researchers at
James Cook University have zeroed in on
the exact frequency of sound that
attracts male mosquitoes 448 Hertz they
say this is the same frequency of the
sound of female mosquitoes wingbeats
and they’ve created a trap that emits
that tone scientists at Ohio State
University have found a way to shut down
mosquitoes kidney like organs down in
Florida they’ve discovered that traps
that use black lights are more effective
than fluorescent light traps do you know
what I always say not going to check
what further south in Guatemala Canadian
researchers have had great success with
this low-tech solution made from
recycled materials and another team from
the USDA has seen encouraging results in
luring mosquitoes to pesticides by
mixing them with sugars horse poop sugar
helps the pesticide down number four
mosquitos pee on you while they bite you
yep mosquitoes add a few hundred nano
litres of insult to the quasi injury of
their bites when a female mosquito sinks
her proboscis into your bloodstream she
gorgeous herself on the equivalent of
her own body mass in blood
in order to make room for all that
delicious red she’s got to get rid of
all the excess water and salt in her
body so yeah she ease it out also before
and during feeding she’s injecting her
saliva into you as an anticoagulant so
your blood doesn’t clog up her proboscis
saliva urine blood probe aussies
suddenly feel like we’ve got a very
intimate relationship with mosquitoes I
hope you enjoyed your first blood suck
number 3 mosquito factories could mean
the end of malaria and dengue mosquitoes
spread life-threatening infectious
diseases like dengue fever malaria
yellow fever and Zika according to the
World Health Organization there are 50
to 100 million cases of dengue fever
every year and for thousands of people
it is fatal but by injecting a strain of
bacteria into mosquito embryos that
renders them immune to malaria and
dengue scientists have created
mosquitoes incapable of transmitting
some of these diseases to humans best of
all this immunity is passed on
genetically so the trait gradually
spreads through the gene pool to speed
up that process so-called mosquito
factories have been built in various
countries around the world including
China and Brazil that are capable of
releasing millions of mosquitoes every
week
Brazil implemented this program in 2011
and they saw over a six-month period on
that there was a 90% decrease in the
mosquito population which in turn means
a decrease in dengue fever new research
has shown that the same bacteria
wolbachia could be used in the same way
against Zika virus eventually these
diseases could be a thing of the past
number 2
genetic modification could eliminate
mosquitoes completely so you can go in
and remove the species that are bad and
then allow the species that that may
have no effect on humans – to play out
the role in the environment and in that
some people call that playing God I call
it good management so I have malaria
free mosquitoes when you could just have
no mosquitoes 2014 scientists from the
Imperial College London created a
genetic method that causes Anopheles
gambiae AI mosquitoes the main
transmitters of malaria to produce
almost entirely male offspring resulting
in a Krogan Jennifer
type situation so your people were
infected with a genetic mutation an
infection that makes only a few and a
thousand children survive birth and I
suppose it’s destroying your entire
species recent advancements have made
this strategy even more effective
rendering the offspring of the modified
mosquitoes completely sterile or giving
them really short lifespans well what
was shown in Brazil is that within a
six-month period we can reduce the
population of mosquitoes this particular
one that spreads dengue or chikungunya
and Zika by over 90 percent within six
months scientists say that even with
mosquito factories creating GM
mosquitoes it would be a long difficult
process but in theory a world without
the number-one entry on watch mojos list
of the top ten most annoying insects is
tenable so what are we waiting for well
the thing is number one nobody knows
what the side effects of mosquito
extinction would be earth there’s a
protected wildlife reserve yeah we’ve
been using it to rebuild the mosquito
population which need of me behind you
is an endangered species yes being
responsible for the death of 1 million
people every year makes them the most
deadly animal on the planet but they are
part of their ecosystems nevertheless
mosquitoes all of you got about 15
mosquitoes one SWAT ecologists have
learned the hard way that removing one
element from an ecosystem can have
disastrous knock-on effects removing
problematic predators like wolves for
instance can allow prey species like
deer to overpopulate leading to a loss
of plant diversity which leads to other
problems and so on here’s where it gets
really interesting
the Wolves changed the behavior of the
rivers however unlike in that example
it’s apparently tough for ecologist to
agree on any useful niche that makes
skeeters indispensable yes they
pollinate plants but other bugs could do
that in their place yes larger animals
eat them but except at high northern
latitudes they don’t make up a
significant portion of any one species
diet in Alaska swarms of mosquitoes can
get so thick that they actually
asphyxiate caribou but those experts
could be wrong and the results could be
disastrous
perhaps as science writer David Kwan
suggests the one thing that really makes
mosquitoes indispensable is the fact
that they are so dangerous to humans
according to Guam and the largest
impediment to colonizing or clearing
equatorial rainforests has always been a
hyper abundance of mosquitoes and in the
first eight years of constructing the
Panama Canal some 20,000 people died of
mosquito-borne diseases so what do you
think should we eliminate all mosquitoes
and deal with the aftermath then can we
not simply destroy the island No
crazy head the mosquitoes food of choice
primitive humanoid life-forms have
colonies all over that planet for more
useful niche toptenz and screwed by the
Solarians top 5s published daily be sure
to subscribe to watchmojo.com i don’t
expect you to
understand that don’t compare humanity’s
fate with the Krogen
creatures on the planet or are they
actually the most annoying creatures on
the planet and something else
welcome to watchmojo.com ting down the
five most fascinating facts we could
find about the sometimes pesky sometimes
pestilent little vampires known as
mosquitoes number five the war on
mosquitoes is getting creative here you
can see the laser strike parts of the
mosquito breaking off and the body
falling to the ground researchers have
developed a variety of novel ways to
lure trap and kill these little
bloodsuckers for one researchers at
James Cook University have zeroed in on
the exact frequency of sound that
attracts male mosquitoes 448 Hertz they
say this is the same frequency of the
sound of female mosquitoes wingbeats
and they’ve created a trap that emits
that tone scientists at Ohio State
University have found a way to shut down
mosquitoes kidney like organs down in
Florida they’ve discovered that traps
that use black lights are more effective
than fluorescent light traps do you know
what I always say not going to check
what further south in Guatemala Canadian
researchers have had great success with
this low-tech solution made from
recycled materials and another team from
the USDA has seen encouraging results in
luring mosquitoes to pesticides by
mixing them with sugars horse poop sugar
helps the pesticide down number four
mosquitos pee on you while they bite you
yep mosquitoes add a few hundred nano
litres of insult to the quasi injury of
their bites when a female mosquito sinks
her proboscis into your bloodstream she
gorgeous herself on the equivalent of
her own body mass in blood
in order to make room for all that
delicious red she’s got to get rid of
all the excess water and salt in her
body so yeah she ease it out also before
and during feeding she’s injecting her
saliva into you as an anticoagulant so
your blood doesn’t clog up her proboscis
saliva urine blood probe aussies
suddenly feel like we’ve got a very
intimate relationship with mosquitoes I
hope you enjoyed your first blood suck
number 3 mosquito factories could mean
the end of malaria and dengue mosquitoes
spread life-threatening infectious
diseases like dengue fever malaria
yellow fever and Zika according to the
World Health Organization there are 50
to 100 million cases of dengue fever
every year and for thousands of people
it is fatal but by injecting a strain of
bacteria into mosquito embryos that
renders them immune to malaria and
dengue scientists have created
mosquitoes incapable of transmitting
some of these diseases to humans best of
all this immunity is passed on
genetically so the trait gradually
spreads through the gene pool to speed
up that process so-called mosquito
factories have been built in various
countries around the world including
China and Brazil that are capable of
releasing millions of mosquitoes every
week
Brazil implemented this program in 2011
and they saw over a six-month period on
that there was a 90% decrease in the
mosquito population which in turn means
a decrease in dengue fever new research
has shown that the same bacteria
wolbachia could be used in the same way
against Zika virus eventually these
diseases could be a thing of the past
number 2
genetic modification could eliminate
mosquitoes completely so you can go in
and remove the species that are bad and
then allow the species that that may
have no effect on humans – to play out
the role in the environment and in that
some people call that playing God I call
it good management so I have malaria
free mosquitoes when you could just have
no mosquitoes 2014 scientists from the
Imperial College London created a
genetic method that causes Anopheles
gambiae AI mosquitoes the main
transmitters of malaria to produce
almost entirely male offspring resulting
in a Krogan Jennifer
type situation so your people were
infected with a genetic mutation an
infection that makes only a few and a
thousand children survive birth and I
suppose it’s destroying your entire
species recent advancements have made
this strategy even more effective
rendering the offspring of the modified
mosquitoes completely sterile or giving
them really short lifespans well what
was shown in Brazil is that within a
six-month period we can reduce the
population of mosquitoes this particular
one that spreads dengue or chikungunya
and Zika by over 90 percent within six
months scientists say that even with
mosquito factories creating GM
mosquitoes it would be a long difficult
process but in theory a world without
the number-one entry on watch mojos list
of the top ten most annoying insects is
tenable so what are we waiting for well
the thing is number one nobody knows
what the side effects of mosquito
extinction would be earth there’s a
protected wildlife reserve yeah we’ve
been using it to rebuild the mosquito
population which need of me behind you
is an endangered species yes being
responsible for the death of 1 million
people every year makes them the most
deadly animal on the planet but they are
part of their ecosystems nevertheless
mosquitoes all of you got about 15
mosquitoes one SWAT ecologists have
learned the hard way that removing one
element from an ecosystem can have
disastrous knock-on effects removing
problematic predators like wolves for
instance can allow prey species like
deer to overpopulate leading to a loss
of plant diversity which leads to other
problems and so on here’s where it gets
really interesting
the Wolves changed the behavior of the
rivers however unlike in that example
it’s apparently tough for ecologist to
agree on any useful niche that makes
skeeters indispensable yes they
pollinate plants but other bugs could do
that in their place yes larger animals
eat them but except at high northern
latitudes they don’t make up a
significant portion of any one species
diet in Alaska swarms of mosquitoes can
get so thick that they actually
asphyxiate caribou but those experts
could be wrong and the results could be
disastrous
perhaps as science writer David Kwan
suggests the one thing that really makes
mosquitoes indispensable is the fact
that they are so dangerous to humans
according to Guam and the largest
impediment to colonizing or clearing
equatorial rainforests has always been a
hyper abundance of mosquitoes and in the
first eight years of constructing the
Panama Canal some 20,000 people died of
mosquito-borne diseases so what do you
think should we eliminate all mosquitoes
and deal with the aftermath then can we
not simply destroy the island No
crazy head the mosquitoes food of choice
primitive humanoid life-forms have
colonies all over that planet for more
useful niche toptenz and screwed by the
Solarians top 5s published daily be sure
to subscribe to watchmojo.com i don’t
expect you to
understand that don’t compare humanity’s
fate with the Krogen
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