This kind of research is awesome and important. There are so many mosquito-borne illnesses, and anything we can do to better understand their behaviors (and how they vary across species!) can improve health outcomes and even save lives.
The mosquitoes that bite humans could be eradicated. I don’t know why we don’t do it. There are only a few kinds that do, leaving plenty behind for the bats and birds to eat.
I’m not very proficient in Spanish, so I don’t see where those numbers come from, but they’re clearly incomplete. Traffic deaths alone were 1.34 million in 2023, and unless it was mosquitoes driving…
This kind of research is awesome and important. There are so many mosquito-borne illnesses, and anything we can do to better understand their behaviors (and how they vary across species!) can improve health outcomes and even save lives.
The mosquitoes that bite humans could be eradicated. I don’t know why we don’t do it. There are only a few kinds that do, leaving plenty behind for the bats and birds to eat.
https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/mosquito-control/genetically-modified-mosquitoes.html
Deadliest animal on the planet, by a large margin.
I feel like Homo sapiens sapiens is not getting its due, here.
“Mosquitoes kill around 760,000 to 1 million people each year, while humans kill roughly 400,000 to 600,000 other humans annually”
https://www.isglobal.org/-/mosquito-el-animal-mas-letal-del-mundo
I’m not very proficient in Spanish, so I don’t see where those numbers come from, but they’re clearly incomplete. Traffic deaths alone were 1.34 million in 2023, and unless it was mosquitoes driving…
Not every traffic death is caused by another human.
Yeah but what if you count the killing of all species? Pretty sure that brings us into the billions.
Agriculture alone already kills billions of farmed animals every year.