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#40 · 3 ago
#Mosquito
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La mujer quedó en posición de loto. La casa recogida y limpia. Todo en su exacto lugar. Un suave rumor a jazmín y la dulce luz de un atardecer tardío. Había necesitado de una jornada completa, en realidad más de lo que hoy consideraríamos una jornada completa.
Hicieron falta no menos de 12 horas, más un descanso para comer algo, para dejar la casa tan limpia que ahora podría ensuciarse con gusto. El inmoral ritual de ensuciar lo limpio. Contaminar lo purificado. La mugre que vuelve a reclamar el espacio contra el tiempo dedicado en apartarla. Daba igual. Ahora, sobre el cojín de meditación, con los músculos cansados pero en relajada distensión, solo se tenía que dejar estar.
Y estando fue que llegó el primer zancudo insecto. Se posa en el brazo. Su trompa desplegó las seis diminutas agujas que la componen. Con las dos primeras serró la blanda dermis. Rompió su cohesión atómica. Avergonzó el poder que se le otorga a la carne. Llegó ahora el momento de que otras dos de esas agujas separaran la carne dejando al microscopio descubierto el néctar biológico del ser. Y ahora sí, las dos que quedaban succionaron la sangre separando y filtrando agua y plasma. El agua para las ranas.

#LorenzoGárez #escritura #literaverso
#microrrelato #_escribirSinIA

#39 · 2 ago
#Mosquito
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Siempre que las cosas se ponían tan jodidas no había droga ni dharma que la calmase tanto como una sesión de minuciosa dedicación a desinfectar la casa.
Cada mínima telaraña en un rincón era desprendida. Toda junta de alicatado o suelo frotada y limpiada. Cada mueble, cada superficie, cada centímetro cuadrado despojado de las células de piel muerta, fibras, tierras, restos microscópicos rebosantes de vida, de otra vida. Se lavaban menajes de uso diario, los reservados e incluso los olvidados al fondo del armario. Se metían en la lavadora todos y cada uno de los tejidos susceptibles de dar vueltas en jabón y agua.
Aquello no era un simple adecentar las estancias. Era un método eficaz e infalible de desinfectar el espacio privado y, con eso esperaba, también una oportunidad de empezar de cero. Como si la formación del universo hubiera sido un caos surgido de una singularidad pulcra y de una vaciedad tal que no hubiera espacio ni materia que ensuciar. En el principio era el Verbo, y el Verbo no manchaba, solo luz sin danza.

#LorenzoGárez #escritura #literaverso
#microrrelato #_escribirSinIA

"Data and code from: Blood-derived dietary protein promotes sleep in the mosquito Aedes aegypti"

🔎 Dataset: https://datadryad.org/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.1g1jwsvcm

📖 Article in eLife: https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.110245

#biology #mosquito #sleep

Having heard about the "mosquito bucket of doom" from several different sources (and having been bitten a gazillion times since moving to moist Maryland from the Arizona desert 3 months ago), I decided to give it a try. I suppose I'll find out in a few weeks how effective it is.

https://homegrownnationalpark.org/mosquito-bucket-challenge/

#PestControl #mosquito

An Invasive #Mosquito Is Spreading With Alarming Speed, Threatening #Africa’s Cities
The #malaria-carrying mosquito is resistant to all #insecticides.
Genomic analysis of the mosquito, called Anopheles stephensi, using specimens collected from 10 countries, showed those found in Africa had genetic resistance to all of the chemicals currently used in spraying campaigns and other mosquito-control efforts, meaning those insecticides will not kill it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/politics/mosquito-africa-anopheles-stephensi.html
https://archive.ph/TMjZ7

Play me a song.

#humor #commentbelow #memes #dankmemes #funny #mosquito

Keeping Mosquitoes Away with Catnip-Based Repellent

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/07/24/keeping-mosquitoes-away-with-catnip-based-repellent/

'Eine:r von Tausenden' #FotoVorschlag

eine stechmücke der
Gattung Aedes ... möglicherweise.
jedenfalls nachdem sie versucht hat mich zu stechen, also eindeutig ein weibchen.
ohne mikroskopische untersuchung lässt sich genaueres nicht sagen, zumindest nicht bei so einem reflexopfer

#insekten #insects #mosquito #krabbeltierchen #BugOfTheDay #vector #nature #biodiversity #entomology #macro

As #mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing #disease
Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps #publichealth officials stop #outbreaks.
In Connecticut statewide mosquito monitoring program has 54 different species, including invasives like Asian tiger mosquito, which can transmit diseases including dengue and Zika. Mosquito’s historical territory is in hot and humid climates farther south, but moving north.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/as-mosquito-ranges-expand-better-monitoring-is-key-to-preventing-disease/ #climate #climatechange

I’m not really a cat person anymore… but if I have to choose between the massive patches of #mosquito bites these mosquitoes seem to cause nowadays and having every cat in the neighbourhood chase after me, I’m definitely choosing the cats.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13106807/

#catnip #malaria #dengue #science

As Mosquito Ranges Expand With Warming, Gaps in Monitoring Leave US Unprepared

Follow @1ban_news for daily coverage.

https://1ban.news/mosquito-ranges-expand-monitoring/

#1ban #mosquito #ranges #expand #monitoring #science

Antispeciesism includes parasites like leeches mosquitos and bedbugs.

There are non-lethal ways to protect yourself from parasites.

No one chooses what species they are born in to and villainising moralising or stereotyping parasite species helps nobody but it does reinforce human supremacy and anti-insect speciesism

Ever noticed how in fiction insectoids are almost invariably unintelligent evil or ravenous beasts and humanoids can be approachable and reasonable: that is an example of anti-insect speciesism

#Speciesism #HumanSupremacy #Parasite #Bedbug #Mosquito

Monitoring seems aimed at controlling mosquito populations. Might it be more effective to ramp up targeting the diseases in humans while cutting back on emissions? >>

As #Climate Change Expands #Mosquito Ranges, Better Monitoring Is Key to Preventing #Disease - Inside Climate News

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16072026/better-monitoring-needed-as-mosquito-ranges-expand/

"How are you dealing with all the mosquitoes?" asked neighbor 5 doors away. We have almost no mosquitoes. We have two mosquito dunk buckets, a purple martin house with loads of bug-eating birds, and we have plants that the frogs seem to like. That neighbor has grass. Americans, smdh.

Another neighbor complained about JuneBugs. I haven't seen any this year.
I guess these efforts are working!

#mosquito #mosquitodunk #gardening #birding #insects

#Finland is beautiful. It's also a place that makes you realise you are not the top of the food chain. #mosquito #safeguard

“We found that a 6% catnip oil was just as effective as #Deet, and the 2% #catnip oil was only marginally less effective than that.”

“Deet is out of the price bracket for most of #Uganda’s rural subsistence farmers, so buying commercially available #mosquito repellents is just not practicable.
“We wanted to make a repellent, which is highly efficacious, but also allows local people to be involved in the production cycle so that it costs a minimal amount of money.”

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/07/catnip-lotion-as-effective-as-deet-at-repelling-mosquitoes-study-finds

"Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds"- did a cat write this?

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/07/catnip-lotion-as-effective-as-deet-at-repelling-mosquitoes-study-finds

A joint Welsh and Ugandan study has shown a 6% catnip oil based lotion to be just as effective as DEET for repelling mosquitos. The guardian article is by, I shit you not, "Kat Lay"

more: https://phys.org/news/2026-07-homegrown-catnip-lotion-effective-mosquito.html

#mosquito #Grauniad #catnip #NominativeDeterminism

#Mosquito gene drives for #malaria control can be undermined by rare, hard to detect genetic resistance alleles. This study by Morianou, Hammond, Nolan, Crisanti &co reveals how #CRISPR resistance emerges and how to overcome it, advancing vector control

https://plos.io/3R0ggEQ

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ de Havilland Mosquito ✧

The de Havilland Mosquito is a British twin-engined multirole combat aircraft introduced during the Second World War. Nicknamed the "Wooden Wonder", it features a mostly wooden airframe. Originally designed as an unarmed fast bomber, it was adapted for roles including photo-reconnaissance, nig...

#secondworldwar #woodenwonder #mosquito #royalairforce #raf #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito

Caught a male mosquito in the cup. I released him outside. 😂

FYI: only egg-laying female mosquitos bite and suck blood.

#insects #mosquito