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GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides meant to kill them

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(Natural News) Getting bit by mosquitoes is never fun, and it can be downright deadly if they happen to be carrying diseases like malaria. Mankind’s quest to keep this nuisance under control, however well-meaning it may be, appears to have had the opposite of its intended effect as a new study shows how mosquitoes have evolved a type of genetic shield to protect themselves from chemical pesticides.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-01-06-gm-nightmare-humans-created-monster-mosquito-resist-pesticides.html
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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2018, 02:35:35 pm »
Come at me bro.

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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2018, 02:42:51 pm »
Three words.

DDT

Bring it back.
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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2018, 02:44:19 pm »
Not possible. They may be resistant to some but not all
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« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2018, 02:46:24 pm »
Why is this a “GM nightmare”?  This is natural selection in action, not genetic modification in the sense that term is usually used, namely, human insertion of gene sequences into an organisms genome. 
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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2018, 02:57:21 pm »
Quote from: Oceander on January 07, 2018, 02:46:24 pm
Why is this a “GM nightmare”?  This is natural selection in action, not genetic modification in the sense that term is usually used, namely, human insertion of gene sequences into an organisms genome.

Because Natural News is a crackpot site that hopes you only read the title.
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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2018, 02:58:48 pm »
Quote from: AbaraXas on January 07, 2018, 02:57:21 pm
Because Natural News is a crackpot site that hopes you only read the title.

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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2018, 05:52:53 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on January 07, 2018, 02:42:51 pm
Three words.

DDT

Bring it back.


It never left.
In fact, it's continued use in agricultural (in places like India) is part of why we see this problem.

Fortunately, places that restricted it's use to mosquito control, like the US, don't have as many problems.
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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2018, 06:10:24 pm »
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Quote from: Suppressed on January 07, 2018, 05:52:53 pm

It never left.
In fact, it's continued use in agricultural (in places like India) is part of why we see this problem.

Fortunately, places that restricted it's use to mosquito control, like the US, don't have as many problems.

Yep. There is nothing magic about DDT. Its just another chemical compound that mosquitoes can build up a resistance to. Its why we wisely avoid feeding antibiotics to industrially grown poultry in this country.
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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2018, 07:27:30 pm »
Here in Florida we've started to see a giant mosquito.   It's about 1 1/2 inches wide.   Sounds like an airplane coming at you.

Neighbor got bit.   He said it felt like a knife.  It raised a welt about the size of a golf ball.
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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2018, 07:50:14 pm »
Quote from: driftdiver on January 07, 2018, 07:27:30 pm
Here in Florida we've started to see a giant mosquito.   It's about 1 1/2 inches wide.   Sounds like an airplane coming at you.

Neighbor got bit.   He said it felt like a knife.  It raised a welt about the size of a golf ball.

Do they look like this?

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« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2018, 07:56:47 pm »
Quote from: driftdiver on January 07, 2018, 07:27:30 pm
Here in Florida we've started to see a giant mosquito.   It's about 1 1/2 inches wide.   Sounds like an airplane coming at you.

Neighbor got bit.   He said it felt like a knife.  It raised a welt about the size of a golf ball.

PS

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/10/monster-mosquitoes-emerge-in-central-florida/

Apparently they're a Florida native mosquito species, as opposed to those tiger striped species we've seen the last several years from Asia, and don't carry disease that humans can catch.  So the bite may hurt a bit, but you don't have to worry about any of the crazy viruses that the other ones carry.
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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2018, 03:30:56 pm »
Quote from: Cripplecreek on January 07, 2018, 06:45:09 pm
Yep. There is nothing magic about DDT. Its just another chemical compound that mosquitoes can build up a resistance to. Its why we wisely avoid feeding antibiotics to industrially grown poultry in this country.

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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2018, 03:40:14 pm »
If you nail them with pyrethrins, they will die. It's just that it is almost solely a contact killer. The half-life is measured in a few hours.
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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2018, 05:42:01 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on January 07, 2018, 07:50:14 pm
Do they look like this?



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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
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GM nightmare unfolds:

They decided to bring the Phoenix back?

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« Reply #17 on: January 08, 2018, 06:03:57 pm »
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Do they look like this?



My kind of mosquito.
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« Reply #18 on: January 08, 2018, 06:09:40 pm »
Quote from: AbaraXas on January 07, 2018, 02:57:21 pm
Because Natural News is a crackpot site that hopes you only read the title.
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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #19 on: January 08, 2018, 06:10:16 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on January 08, 2018, 05:52:29 pm
GM nightmare unfolds:

They decided to bring the Phoenix back?


OK, you win the internet for the day!!!

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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #20 on: January 08, 2018, 06:12:17 pm »
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GM nightmare unfolds:

They decided to bring the Phoenix back?

I would have gone with the Pontiac Aztek.
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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #21 on: January 08, 2018, 06:15:48 pm »
Quote from: thackney on January 08, 2018, 06:12:17 pm
I would have gone with the Pontiac Aztek.

The Aztek was ugly, but was a mechanically sound vehicle and you could fit a lot of stuff in them. There are a lot of them still on the road as well. X platform based cars, not so much.
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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #22 on: January 08, 2018, 06:18:32 pm »
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I would have gone with the Pontiac Aztek.

I almost got one of those because I knew it would be safe parked in a high-crime neighborhood. 
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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #23 on: January 08, 2018, 06:28:03 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on January 08, 2018, 06:15:48 pm
The Aztek was ugly, but was a mechanically sound vehicle and you could fit a lot of stuff in them. There are a lot of them still on the road as well. X platform based cars, not so much.

Edmunds said it best when it made the #1 spot on their 100 Worst Cars of All Time:

1. 2001 Pontiac Aztek: Drive one and you quickly realize that the Aztek's exterior design is its best feature. It's the very worst car of all time because it's the only car on the list to kill an 84-year-old car company. It's undeniable that the Aztek's utter hideousness drove the biggest and last nails into Pontiac's heavily side-clad, plastic coffin.

https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/100-worst-cars-of-all-time.html
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Re: GM nightmare unfolds: Humans have created a MONSTER MOSQUITO that can now RESIST the pesticides
« Reply #24 on: January 08, 2018, 06:41:21 pm »
Quote from: thackney on January 08, 2018, 06:28:03 pm
Edmunds said it best when it made the #1 spot on their 100 Worst Cars of All Time:

1. 2001 Pontiac Aztek: Drive one and you quickly realize that the Aztek's exterior design is its best feature. It's the very worst car of all time because it's the only car on the list to kill an 84-year-old car company. It's undeniable that the Aztek's utter hideousness drove the biggest and last nails into Pontiac's heavily side-clad, plastic coffin.

https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/100-worst-cars-of-all-time.html

All the bitching about that car was the styling. It had a bulletproof 3400 in it and all the other tried and true drive train and suspension components in the GM toolbox. No one ever bitches about Buick Rendezvous, but they were the identical car with different sheet metal.
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