Male mosquites live off nectar. Fed some fruit juice when I found one in my home that was waaay too big to be female and too big for me to squash. There are talks and warnings of using the CRISPR/Cas9 gene drive to wipe out the malarial mosquito in as little as 6 generations but thats a whole can of worms. Would be a GREAT topic for discussion on this thread since the public is lapping up the CRISPR hype like crack these days. Anyone see the Gene Drive talk at iGEM last year? I missed it but wanted to go!
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Only the females drink blood (for egg making).Perhaps the males are the sole pollinators of some plants?--On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Jonathan Cline <jcline@ieee.org> wrote:Mosquito's are in the news again as the pillar of all evil (this time due to Zika virus). What's the ramification of exterminating all mosquitoes - if it could be done? Do they serve any purpose in ecology other than being a tiny part of the food chain (if so is this tiny part insignificant & replaceable)?
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