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  1. Why insects are swarming Chicago

    In the parks, at the lakefront and beyond, swarms of mosquitoes, flies and other bugs are chasing away…
    #NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Chicago #flies #Headlines #Insects #Mosquitoes #Summer #TopStories
    newsbeep.com/718636/

  2. Debugging: #Google requests permission to release 32m #mosquitoes in #California and #Florida
    Company asks US government to release army of sterile male mosquitoes to lower number of illness-spreading bugs
    Male mosquitoes don’t bite or carry disease. One of the main approaches Google is testing involves rearing male mosquitoes with a naturally occurring bacteria, called #wolbachia, which stops them from having offspring with wild female mosquitoes.
    theguardian.com/technology/202

  3. "[Hannah Ritchie] In this article, I’ll focus on how Wolbachia can be used against dengue fever. I'll examine how this innovative new method works, how effective it is in reducing transmission, and how it can be rolled out across the tropics to protect as many people as possible."

    ourworldindata.org/wolbachia-n

    #OurWorldInData #Diseases #Mosquitoes #Wolbachia #Health #Dengue

  4. @therockyfiles

    This underscores a point I try to make from time to time, when I sound more bearish about the future of humanity than the climate scientists are: What threatens humankind is more than just the first-order effects of Climate.

    You see Trump and others characterizing the Climate movement as a fear that we will drown from sea level rise. That's not the risk. There are secondary and tertiary risks, such as crop failures and consequent famine. But migration of animals of all kinds will happen, and some of those animals are as small as mosquitos.

    This means that climate scientists are not the only experts we should be talking to in order to understand the climate problem. Diseases, insects, crops, etc. will become increasingly important. Not only are climate experts at risk of experiencing "Peter Principle" effects if they stretch too far, pretending expertise in areas they don't have, but we as a public will be blind to important dimensions of risk analysis that only an expert in these other fields would see.

    In effect, it means that if a climate expert tells you about a certain set of risks, they are almost necessarily low-balling that risk for lack of ability to cover the space. And it means we as a public are planning timelines that are way too generous.

    #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateExpertise #ClimateRisks #mosquitos #mosquitoes #disease #DiseaseTransmission

  5. #Wolbachia causes embryonic lethality in #FruitFlies by modifying #chromatin integrity in sperm. @KaurTweets @Symbionticism &co show that this occurs in the wMel-transinfected #Aedesaegypti #mosquitoes used to control vector-borne diseases #PLOSBiology plos.io/3xgOsBH

  6. Long-term maintenance of Culex #mosquitoes in the lab allowed @_alnam &co to witness emergence of novel #CytoplasmicIncompatibility patterns, showing that they arose from rapid evolution of #Wolbachia genomes via gene loss & recombination #PLOSBiology plos.io/3HLaBKC

  7. A look at the Wolbachia technology employed in Singapore to suppress the mosquito population. Also highlights some reasons why the suppression method is used, instead of replacing the native mosquito population with a wolbachia infected one.

    undark.org/2023/02/13/why-sing

    #Mosquitoes #Singapore #Wolbachia

  8. #introduction
    I'm the regulatory officer for the World Mosquito Program #WMP and moonlight as a researcher. Miss having a pipette in my hand.

    Nerd out mostly over #regulatory-science, #Wolbachia, #mutualism, #biocontrol, #generegulation, #speciation & #eusociality.

    Love working with #Drosophila & #yeast (also other #fungi), #bees, & #mosquitoes.

    Explore with #R, #genomics, #syntheticbiology & #microbiology.

    Geeking out includes fixing Japanese #arcade #candycabs.