#mosquito — Public Fediverse posts
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The Mexican Chronicles – Eleven
The first Angolan roadblock we saw was a joke: a few policemen with machine guns, and they were all sleeping. Later we learned that the police and soldiers were mortal enemies. We arrived at a camp in the dark, could not see much.
We were shown to a tent without lights. We collected a kas, a bed frame and a mattress, all of which we had been sitting on top of in the truck. All this was done in the dark; one could only make out the vague shapes of bush and tents at this stage. One guy was already set up in the tent. Tall and skinny, he was the friendliest person we had met thus far. As we had been told not to bring anything with us, we had no torch, and not even a candle. “Skinny” told us to set up our mossie nets before anything else. He was quite right; the mossies at Longa are the worst I have ever seen. Clouds of them, early in the morning and all night. If you slapped your leg, your hand came away black. They drank Mylon for starters and our blood as a chaser! Before a month was out most of us at camp had malaria and symptoms of other strange diseases which I’m sure the mossies carried as spare ammunition to try and kill us off. We dubbed them “the Angolan Air Force”; eventually I had two mossie nets although they were suffocating in the extreme heat. I was one of the few that did not fall ill right at the beginning.
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The Mexican Chronicles – Eleven
The first Angolan roadblock we saw was a joke: a few policemen with machine guns, and they were all sleeping. Later we learned that the police and soldiers were mortal enemies. We arrived at a camp in the dark, could not see much.
We were shown to a tent without lights. We collected a kas, a bed frame and a mattress, all of which we had been sitting on top of in the truck. All this was done in the dark; one could only make out the vague shapes of bush and tents at this stage. One guy was already set up in the tent. Tall and skinny, he was the friendliest person we had met thus far. As we had been told not to bring anything with us, we had no torch, and not even a candle. “Skinny” told us to set up our mossie nets before anything else. He was quite right; the mossies at Longa are the worst I have ever seen. Clouds of them, early in the morning and all night. If you slapped your leg, your hand came away black. They drank Mylon for starters and our blood as a chaser! Before a month was out most of us at camp had malaria and symptoms of other strange diseases which I’m sure the mossies carried as spare ammunition to try and kill us off. We dubbed them “the Angolan Air Force”; eventually I had two mossie nets although they were suffocating in the extreme heat. I was one of the few that did not fall ill right at the beginning.
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The Mexican Chronicles – Eleven
The first Angolan roadblock we saw was a joke: a few policemen with machine guns, and they were all sleeping. Later we learned that the police and soldiers were mortal enemies. We arrived at a camp in the dark, could not see much.
We were shown to a tent without lights. We collected a kas, a bed frame and a mattress, all of which we had been sitting on top of in the truck. All this was done in the dark; one could only make out the vague shapes of bush and tents at this stage. One guy was already set up in the tent. Tall and skinny, he was the friendliest person we had met thus far. As we had been told not to bring anything with us, we had no torch, and not even a candle. “Skinny” told us to set up our mossie nets before anything else. He was quite right; the mossies at Longa are the worst I have ever seen. Clouds of them, early in the morning and all night. If you slapped your leg, your hand came away black. They drank Mylon for starters and our blood as a chaser! Before a month was out most of us at camp had malaria and symptoms of other strange diseases which I’m sure the mossies carried as spare ammunition to try and kill us off. We dubbed them “the Angolan Air Force”; eventually I had two mossie nets although they were suffocating in the extreme heat. I was one of the few that did not fall ill right at the beginning.
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The Mexican Chronicles – Eleven
The first Angolan roadblock we saw was a joke: a few policemen with machine guns, and they were all sleeping. Later we learned that the police and soldiers were mortal enemies. We arrived at a camp in the dark, could not see much.
We were shown to a tent without lights. We collected a kas, a bed frame and a mattress, all of which we had been sitting on top of in the truck. All this was done in the dark; one could only make out the vague shapes of bush and tents at this stage. One guy was already set up in the tent. Tall and skinny, he was the friendliest person we had met thus far. As we had been told not to bring anything with us, we had no torch, and not even a candle. “Skinny” told us to set up our mossie nets before anything else. He was quite right; the mossies at Longa are the worst I have ever seen. Clouds of them, early in the morning and all night. If you slapped your leg, your hand came away black. They drank Mylon for starters and our blood as a chaser! Before a month was out most of us at camp had malaria and symptoms of other strange diseases which I’m sure the mossies carried as spare ammunition to try and kill us off. We dubbed them “the Angolan Air Force”; eventually I had two mossie nets although they were suffocating in the extreme heat. I was one of the few that did not fall ill right at the beginning.
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The Mexican Chronicles – Eleven
The first Angolan roadblock we saw was a joke: a few policemen with machine guns, and they were all sleeping. Later we learned that the police and soldiers were mortal enemies. We arrived at a camp in the dark, could not see much.
We were shown to a tent without lights. We collected a kas, a bed frame and a mattress, all of which we had been sitting on top of in the truck. All this was done in the dark; one could only make out the vague shapes of bush and tents at this stage. One guy was already set up in the tent. Tall and skinny, he was the friendliest person we had met thus far. As we had been told not to bring anything with us, we had no torch, and not even a candle. “Skinny” told us to set up our mossie nets before anything else. He was quite right; the mossies at Longa are the worst I have ever seen. Clouds of them, early in the morning and all night. If you slapped your leg, your hand came away black. They drank Mylon for starters and our blood as a chaser! Before a month was out most of us at camp had malaria and symptoms of other strange diseases which I’m sure the mossies carried as spare ammunition to try and kill us off. We dubbed them “the Angolan Air Force”; eventually I had two mossie nets although they were suffocating in the extreme heat. I was one of the few that did not fall ill right at the beginning.
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Meet the 2026 #IgNobel Prize winners
It's that time of year again, when we learn which lucky #scientists are among the winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes. This year, the prizes honor research on designing the perfect splash-free #urinal ; using #mosquito #proboscises to "necroprint" tiny nozzles; studying composition rates of buried cotton #underwear and the #aerodynamics of a healthy nose-blow, among other highlights.
#necroprint #science #researchhttps://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/meet-the-2026-ig-nobel-prize-winners/
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Hydrangeas have started blooming😊
But I also found the first mosquito of the year in our yard😞#Hydrangeas #Mosquito #Hydrangea #Blueberry #Flower #Photography
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Manchester Monday 30th March 2026.
[…]https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/03/30/manchester-monday-30th-march-2026/
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Necroprinting Isn’t As Bad As It Sounds https://hackaday.com/2025/12/01/necroprinting-isnt-as-bad-as-it-sounds/ #mosquitoproboscis #3dPrinterhacks #necroprinting #researchpaper #3dprinting #3dprinter #proboscis #mosquito #insects #insect
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Necroprinting Isn’t As Bad As It Sounds https://hackaday.com/2025/12/01/necroprinting-isnt-as-bad-as-it-sounds/ #mosquitoproboscis #3dPrinterhacks #necroprinting #researchpaper #3dprinting #3dprinter #proboscis #mosquito #insects #insect
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Necroprinting Isn’t As Bad As It Sounds https://hackaday.com/2025/12/01/necroprinting-isnt-as-bad-as-it-sounds/ #mosquitoproboscis #3dPrinterhacks #necroprinting #researchpaper #3dprinting #3dprinter #proboscis #mosquito #insects #insect
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Necroprinting Isn’t As Bad As It Sounds https://hackaday.com/2025/12/01/necroprinting-isnt-as-bad-as-it-sounds/ #mosquitoproboscis #3dPrinterhacks #necroprinting #researchpaper #3dprinting #3dprinter #proboscis #mosquito #insects #insect
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Researchers document mosquito species in Puerto Rico that launches eggs aerially, one at a time, into the pools of water that collect between bracts of a plant. See figure 2. Seriously, see figure 2. So cool. #PuertoRico #mosquito #diptera #culex #oviposition #nature #heliconiaceae https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-15955-0
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Identifying Environmental Risk Factors and Mapping the Distribution of West Nile Virus in an Endemic Region of North America
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GH000161 <-- shared paper
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[an older paper (2018) but a good one, including showing the versatility & usefulness of #FedScience spatial datasets]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #USA #WestNile #WestNileVirus #fedscience #NationalLandCoverDatabase #NLCD #virus #publichealth #arboviruses #environment #data #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #fedscience #geocoding #environmental #landcover #physiography #climate #weather #transmission #model #regressiontree #risk #hazard #riskmaps #elevation #humidity #rainfall #precipitation #disease #soil #integrated #opendata #mosquito #satellite #SouthDakota #pasturelands #crossdiscipline #virology #remotesensing #earthobservation #Pathobiology #Epidemiology
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Informative news story from the Doherty Institute on progress against the soft-tissue ulcer-causing bacterium Mycobacterium ulcerans which is endemic in the #MorningtonPeninsular and in the #Bellarine, #Victoria
Carried by #possums and with a probable #mosquito vector role, the team at the #Doherty are researching its #biology and the development of candidate #vaccines. Find out more here: