WEBVTT - Mosquitoes! 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:06.320 Also media trudio muski to annoyse the intro. 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:10.959 How do we do that? That's why you get you 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.360 can hear them, Okay. 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.720 Okay, yeah, yeah, here we are. That's it. That's the introduction. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:20.840 That's all you're getting, and you will be grateful for it. 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:25.520 It's it's me. It's Cherine Higgerene Hi, James Hi, Tarina. 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:27.520 What are we? Are we doing vegetables today? Are we 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:31.600 doing genocide? Which part of the vegetable genocide spectrum? Wheel. 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.159 I feel like we're closer to vegetable than genocide, but 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.319 you can argue the opposite as well, because I get 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:40.640 eat it alive by these things. 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:41.919 So I don't know. 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.360 I think we're kind of in the middle here. I 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.560 think it's a good even metal. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.800 Yeah. Yeah, we've very split the difference. Look, let us go. Yeah, 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.519 it's right, it's things to eat serene alive today is 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:58.280 flesh eating bacteria day, It's not. Does not have a 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.760 flesh eating bacteria that I thought we were doing. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.640 I'd like to surprise you sometimes, just see how you act. 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:09.319 We're doing mosquitos actually, scheren mosquitos Yep, yep. Little guys, 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:10.759 little friendly guys. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.040 Who they're not friendly and they're always little. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.720 But yeah, some of them are absolute chunks. Yeah, I've 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.040 seen some big dogs recently. Did you know the mosquito 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.360 serene is the most deadly animal in the world. Really, Yeah, 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.200 it's an animal. Yeah, I mean it's in the animal kingdom, right, 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.920 I suppose it's insect nuisance. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.600 No, it's not insect on animals and nuisance. I guess 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.639 I couldn't realize it was considered the most deadly animal. 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.640 Why is that just from like valaria? 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.679 Yeah, and all the other diseases at vectors. Right, it 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.600 can do parasites, bacteria, and viruses, so it's really like 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.280 a triple threat when you can get like chuck and gun. Yeah, 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:47.480 Dane Gay, I've got a whole list of them. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:48.720 Why are they still around? 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:50.520 That is an interesting question, Sharene. 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.960 I've always wondered that like bees have benefits, like they 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.200 make they're cute little guys, and they make honey, and 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:57.880 they just want to pollinate around. 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.840 Lots of mosquitoes do too. Lots also, or they don't 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.240 make honey. Lots of species of mosquito just feed of flowers. 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.560 They're not out there to get you. It is just 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.160 the the lady mosquitoes of certain species. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.440 What was the lady insects man? The queen bee? Yeah, 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.239 it's the black widow. 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.240 I don't know, Yeah, it's it's true. Yeah, it's I 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.640 guess maybe they're a matriarchal society, you know, and they're. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.359 Like, yeah, I guess technically a spider is not insect, right, it's. 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:29.560 Like a yeas to correct me on the reddit. Yeah, 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:34.040 please please post your genus and species stuff on the 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.920 on the reddit. I would love that. So, yeah, mosquitoes, 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.200 they're stacking some bondies, about three quarters of a million 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.000 people a year in fact, which is quite a lot 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:43.040 of people for you. 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.800 Yeah, I guess for culture to the genocide and on 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:46.480 the spectrum. 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.800 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Sadly, I don't know, the mosquitoes 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:52.519 don't have so much agency, so I don't feel like 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.680 they're quite as like evil. You know, the word of 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.440 course a moscow. The moscow is a fly in Spanish. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.560 And then each I think, of course, like why I 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:02.080 don't know that. 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.440 Yeah, you might know that, you know, like I don't 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.280 know that. I'm just gonna look this up. Mosquitoes or 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.679 origin word? Well, now, mosca is a fly, ito is 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.400 a diminutive ending, so it means like a little fly. Oh, 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.640 little fly, yeah, a fly. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.440 Lit And there's also a Spanish word that means long legged. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:23.280 Hold on from mosquito. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.880 The Spanish called the mosquitoes mosquetas, and the Native Hispanic 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.360 Americans call them zenkudos. Mosquito is Spanish or Portuguese and 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.840 it means a little fly, while zen kudos is a 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:36.480 Spanish word that means long legged. 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:40.200 Ah. Okay, there we go and learning the etymology today 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:41.960 here and then I didn't have that. I just had 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.080 a little fly based on it being a little fly 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:44.920 in Spanish. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:45.840 That's kind of cute. 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.320 Yeah, I like that long legged. Well, we have daddy 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.560 long legs, I guess, but he's a mosquito. Yeah. So 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.640 technically mosquitoes are actually micro predators, which is kind of 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.480 a fun word. I feel like I've met some micro 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.280 predators in my time, but they were not mosquitoes, and 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:06.800 that is because some of them thrive by drinking human blood. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.040 Tell me about it. Yeah, that is the reason, sharing 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.080 that you have encountered mosquito. So I want to I 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:12.960 want to talk first about their life cycle and then 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.359 about their their predation on Charine so mosquito say the 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.400 eggs in stagnant water, that that's water that's not moving. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:25.720 Right, I know somethings, Jane, Okay, okay, not everyone knows 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:30.680 about stagnant water, Charine. There are listeners too. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.039 They might not know. So their eggs hatched into lava, 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.720 and the lava become pupa. These stages are all aquatic, right, 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.360 They all happen in the stagnant water, right, and then 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.560 the adult mosquito hatches from the pupa and it hatches 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.120 on the surface and then it flies off and it 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:48.039 sucks up your evening. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.440 I don't realized that you had anything to do with water. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.159 Yeah, that's why, Like did this not happen in La 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.760 a few years ago? They this council was like sending 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.679 people around San Diego to like scope out your garden 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.520 to see if you had standing water. Right, if that 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:07.000 did happen, I have no memory during peak. Yeah, let's see, 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.120 maybe that's why it was peaked, like zeko panic. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.760 Oh that makes sense that that would happen. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.240 Yeah, yeah it does. And we definitely get them, like 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.400 I have to put a little over side like a 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.560 thing that kills the eggs into my chicken water. If 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.280 I'm having a big standing thing of chicken water, yeah, 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.039 I try and have smaller and refresh it more frequently now. 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.560 But yeah, you definitely have to be careful of stagnant water. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:32.920 And as we'll see, like one of the main ways 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.599 to control them is like limiting the amount of stagnant 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:40.160 water for some species only the females that a species 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.479 are the bloodsuckers, and in some cases they don't need 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.840 the blood, and in other cases to lay their eggs 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.920 they need to have a blood meal as it's called 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:55.280 h which is a nice words unsettling. Okay, Yeah, So 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.279 the mosquitoes that are vectors for human diseases, so they're 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:02.720 like the transportation vector vehicle for the disease between one 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.320 person and another, those are the guys who often need 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.280 a little blood meal to day the eggs. They don't 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.920 only attack people, actually, they sort of have a preferred species, 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.279 but in a pinch, they'll go after anything with blood. 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.159 And I've seen them get really thick on cattle and 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:19.680 stuff in the summer, or horses. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.720 Yeah, I can imagine that. Yeah, because cow's just sit there. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.039 I mean, if they're being mosquito attack, they get pissed off. 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:28.080 But there's only so much they can do. In some cases, 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:34.080 I think it's horses. Equinumcephalitis is spread by mosquitos, so 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.520 they can actually get it. They can get diseases from 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:40.320 two terrible little guys, and they can like literally die 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.159 from being overbitten. And if they get like completely swarmed 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.960 on wow, yeah, that's like if they're unable to get 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.520 away from them. Because if you have a water tank, right, 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.280 and then mosquitos are breeding in the tank, it's where 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.560 you want to keep that tank moving like right. 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.839 So it's not stagnant water, because stagnant water means it's 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:56.320 not moving. 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.680 There, you go look at that actually and putting knowledge 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.480 into it. I let that be like one of those 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.400 Guo Linga things where you learn a word then use 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.080 it in a sentence exactly. Yeah. All I do is 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.400 use that word. Yeah. Yeah, So yeah, musket has come 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.280 out adorn or dusk, which is to say they are crepuscular, 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:16.360 another word that everyone already knows. 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.120 I mean I did learn that word. I did like 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:20.840 an audiobook and I had to look this word up, 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:22.600 and so I know what it means only because of that. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.280 But it's a very interesting word. I will say it 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.200 isn't it sounds like creepy, Like I would have no 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.280 idea what it meant if I didn't look it up, 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:32.920 Like there's nothing that clues me in. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:37.480 Yeah, crepusculate. It sounds like, yeah, of gress because like 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.040 diurnal nocturnal you can kind of if you know one, 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.280 you can work out. But crepuscular, it is coming out 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:43.200 of fucking left field. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.000 That's crepust Does that mean which remind me? It means 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.760 that they're active don and desk or that they're eating it. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.560 I think it means they Yeah, they are. I'm not 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.160 actually sure if it means it active or they're eating. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:54.240 That's a good question. 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.360 Because I feel like I've heard cats are also described 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:56.640 as that. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:00.200 Yeah, cats are definitely that way animal appearing active in 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:01.360 Twilight active. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.360 Wow, that's very poetic. The first animal I see here 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:10.360 as a cat, Yeah, lion, American woodcock, firefly, short eared owl. Cool. 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:15.800 Yeah, they're real, the pantheon and animals. So they do 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.080 the feeding at doorn a desk and they actually use 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.880 compounds in your exhale breath to sniff you out. So 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:27.960 they are they are hunting for people. They specifically prefer 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.480 to feed on people who have type O blood, an 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:36.559 abundance of skin bacteria, high body heat, and pregnant women. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.000 If you fit one or all of those criteria. I 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.800 guess that because people like definitely, I feel like I 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.959 have type of blood. Yeah too, I feel like I'm victimized, 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.920 like more than most people by the mosquito and they 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:49.840 choose me. Yeah. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.839 I feel like me and my mom are both TYPEO 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.000 and we get you know, live, So that makes sense. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.880 Yeah, they somehow they can smell that on you. 0:08:58.000 --> 0:08:59.520 I'm always cold, though, so I don't think I have 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.719 high bars heat. Not always cold, but I can. I 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:06.000 don't know I have beat circulation, not pregnant. I guess 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:07.680 I must have an abundance of skin bag. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.760 Yeah, it's gonna be a skin bacteriasuring by process of deduction. 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.880 No, but TYPEO makes sense. I think like that is enough. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.360 I suppose. Yeah, they because when it's a lot of them, 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.880 you know, and when one of them starts feeding on you, 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.320 that's going to trigger more of them to come feeding 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:24.840 on you. 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.400 How because they're like, look at this, this idiot, let's 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:27.960 go feed off. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.240 Yeah, yeah, look at this. It is delicious blood that 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.800 is typo. Yeah, got it, Yeah, yum yum. And then 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.360 they're giving off their little feeding sort of vibes and 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.280 then the other mosquitoes come, which can be useful to 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.720 trap them. But it's a fair point. The trapping of 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.640 mosquitos's I learned when I was doing this. Very fucking interesting. 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.600 Actually, ooh, okay, tell me more. Actually maybe not now, 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:49.600 but whenever you get to it. 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.960 Yeah, well we'll get to a tune. They have a 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:57.880 very interesting set of mouth parts and including the labium, 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.320 which is like a gutter shaped cueube mouth tube okay, 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.560 I guess, And it's super sharp and they can use 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.240 it to saw through your skin painlessly, so you never 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:07.240 that's what you don't feel. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.319 So that's the that's the needle looking thing. Yeah, it's 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.200 like the little thing they poke you with. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:12.920 And then well they do that, then they have little 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.240 needle looking things that kind of that it contained within 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.000 the gutter shape that they use to suck out your blood. Gross. 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.760 They're saliva stops your blood from clotting, and it prevents 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.920 vascular constriction in the area where they're biting, so they 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:26.720 can get a little bit extra blood before it clots. 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.480 I guess. Some people can become desensitized to their bites 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:31.960 over time if you're getting bit and all the time, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.480 others can become more sensitive and then increased sensitivity is 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.200 known as Skeeter syndrome. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:42.559 Skeeter syndrome what it looks like because I'm very sensitive 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:43.160 to them. 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.199 Okay, maybe we've got two diagnoses in one episode. We've 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.160 got skin bacteria and Skeeter syndrome. 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.320 I don't know what I need to have to have 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:54.320 Skeeter syndrome, but I will say I'm extreme insensitive to 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:59.120 mosquito bites. When I get bit in they become gigantic. 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.240 I won't even will now I'll wote itch them because 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.240 I know not to at this point. But I'll get 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:07.520 these like gigantic welts essentially, and they're bright pink, and 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.480 then over the course of like a week or something, 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.280 and they become bright red and they look like someone 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.439 put paint on my leg. It's like it's a crazy 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:19.160 color of red. And then when they eventually do stop itching, 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.880 I'll have that welt there in that red mark for. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:26.160 Like months, damn months. It's like it becomes like this 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:29.640 weird scar. Yeah, you could be a squito syndrome, I guess, 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.760 so yeah, yeah, I will say when I. 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.080 Was a kid in Syria, when we would go visit there, 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.640 they have so many mosquitoes. I got in alive because 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.600 we would go there in the summer too. But there 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.360 was one time I got bit in on my eyelid 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:47.320 like this, that sucks, and so I genuinely couldn't open 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.720 my eye for like a week and a half. That 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:50.440 was the worst one. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:54.160 I think I'm like that with beastings, like they they 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.920 swell up like crazy, Like I don't think I'm like anaphylactic. 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.320 But a couple of times time I was racing in 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.200 Laguna Seca, which is like a car racing track in Monterey, 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:09.360 and I'm racing along and I guess I'm riding along 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:14.559 with my mouth open. It's just just like you know, thriving, 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.400 and a mosquito flew in and bit me. I do 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.320 a mosquito a bee, and my whole face just was 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:26.400 like in your mouth. Yeah, it was crazy, it was bad. Ship. Yeah, 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.200 it was fucked. One had just stung me before, like 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.320 the extent which I swell like when be staying me. 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.440 I got stung in the leg on a training ride 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.280 and I had to upgrade to like EXL shorts because 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:44.319 like my thigh just become like yeah, and then one 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.439 got me in the mouth. It was a bad day. 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.240 I had an EpiPen, I had I think I had 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.680 some ivy bed drill at some point. Oh yeah, it 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:52.520 was fucking well. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.760 I mean, I'm glad you're not in a phylactic, but 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:55.440 it's pretty close. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.720 I guess. Yeah, yeah, it's better you can get one 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.760 time I got. I got stung in a face when 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.240 I was to go to lecture as well, and like 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.200 walked in with like elephant man face and my stream. Wow, 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.040 we're just like dude, it's like. 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.360 Those photos or videos you see of like animals like 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.160 a dog at a to b and their faces like gigantic. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.160 Yeah yeah it is, Uh it's two dogs. Do you 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:15.880 love to eat peas? 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:17.600 I will say, I don't know if you've ever done 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.480 twenty three and Me, but I did it years and 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.520 years ago for another show I was on and on 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:24.960 twenty three and Me. You can select if you want, 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.960 like health traits as well as like ancestral traits or whatever, 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.760 like yeah, and on that it said I am more 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.319 likely to get a bitten by mosquitoes. 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.160 They gay. Maybe it just need your blood. 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.040 Type, but I didn't give them my blood given my spit. 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.199 Oh yeah, I don't know. Yeah, that's crazy. Maybe that's 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.240 something in it has no blood type. I don't know. 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.120 I don't know. We've just discovered that shream is on 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:44.280 a eugenics podcast. 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.959 No, it was for my podcast that was about this 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:49.520 is tea Ankay. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:53.600 Yeah, some real problematic folks do love twenty three and me. 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.120 It's very funny when the white nationalists got one twenty 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:57.760 three and me and find out how they get upset. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.680 So yeah, I love that and it's always fun to see. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.839 So the real problem with mosquitos is not just that 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:04.920 they make you a trip, but they're vectors for disease 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.000 and they infect seven hundred million people a year with 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.719 their little bitey mouths. They can spread all kinds of diseases, 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:15.800 including viruses, parasites, and bacteria. Some of their greatest hits 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:21.800 include yellow fever, Dangay malaria, Tuderimia, zeka, chicken gunya, and 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.000 West Nile virus. Speaking from experience, some of those are 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.760 really shit, and you are best avoiding all of those. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.000 That's going to be my advice. To you as a 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.000 doctor in one European history, it really fucking sucks to 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.360 get some of these. I've had some diseases from some mosquitoes, 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.080 and I would not recommend The mosquitoes don't actually get 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:45.520 sick themselves. And it's like it's immune system can destroy 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.720 the virus, but if it bites someone else and then 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.840 bites you before it's immune system destroys the virus' genetic code, 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.520 you can get sick and at some parasites. Apparently malaria 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:00.840 can make mosquitoes more apt to go biting. Interesting, it 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.840 kind of turns them into zombie brain mosquitos. It's how 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.440 I like to think about it. With malaria, which is 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.720 kind of the main mosquito vector disease. I guess that 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.360 we think about the parasite replicates in the liver cells 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.800 and then moves about by the bloodstream. If you get 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.720 bitten again, the blood could then pass that malaria to 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.600 the next victim of the mosquito. I'm going on a 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.360 trip soon for work. I'll probably be on it when 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.360 you will hear this. And like, because people are traveling more, 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:30.360 all these different diseases are becoming more common. Right They're 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.040 endemic in one area, and then people come from that 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.520 area to another area, and then mosquitos are hopping around 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.120 when they're in a new area that they're now spreading 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.760 in that area. So we've talked to some folks like 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.000 on the areas where migrants travel north, all the types 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.400 of malaria are now currently present, which is great because 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.160 you've got people from all over the world, right, and 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.240 then the mosquitos are hopping from someone from China to 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:59.840 someone who's come from Mauritania and spreading their little mosquito 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.720 vector diseases around. So that is bad treating. Do you 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:04.480 know what else is bad? 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.400 I'm sorry my mind was so blank, But ads are 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:09.760 not good. No, they're not bad. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.920 Ads are great. As are so good that we love them. 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:20.440 Oh yay ads. 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:27.800 Okay, we're back, and I want to talk about how 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:32.040 we stop the mosquito nennis. Please help. So I'm going 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:33.760 to talk about eliminating them, and then I'm going to 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.600 talk about some products and services actually that you can 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.320 avail yourself off. I'd been thinking about this a lot 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.760 recently for work reasons, right, Yeah, doing some jungle travel 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.000 in the next few months. So how do we prevent 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.400 them from biting us? First of all, we can stop 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.560 them having little useful pools of stagnant water to replicate 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.840 in right, Like this means like if you're like me, 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.800 one of my friends referred to my my garden as 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.400 a quote Alaska yard, which it's a way of saying 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.000 that it's a mess and there are lots of like 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.720 car parts and like little little things that I am 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.880 fixing soon, you know, And I guess having an Alaska 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.240 yard is bad for the mosquitos, like especially things like tires, 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:16.840 right Like, you know, if you have a big car tire, 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:18.760 water pools in there, and they can have a little 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.560 breed in there, same as buckets in marshy areas. What 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.159 people do is they dig ditches that allows water to 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.080 move so that water doesn't sit completely still. And then 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.040 introducing certain fish it can also help certain fish will eat, 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.320 including the mosquito. Fish will eat the LoVa of the mosquito. 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:37.840 Tilapia also do this so like you can have a 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.080 nice little if you're a person who eats fish, a 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.399 nice still situation where you're reducing the disease burden. And 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.639 also like providing a food source, which is something they're 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.760 working on. You can drain swamps. Of course, Donald Trump 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.320 famously has drained the swamp right, yeah, I hear no 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.199 malaria do you see anymore because of Donald Trump? But 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.880 doing so obviously destroys an important habitat. Certainly you don't 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.240 want to just be draining swamps. I was reading about 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.280 something in Florida they do called rotational impound management, where 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.000 they kind of allow water levels to fluctuate, and then 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.280 they have these clever little gates that mean that that 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.080 other species like the fish and the crustaceans can move about, 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.119 but they're keeping them water moving. To stop the little 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.159 mosquito eggs. For me, the other way to do it 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.280 is to try and kill them, right, So there are 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.280 various ways of doing that. One of them is to 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:24.639 create an environment where they would want to lay their eggs, 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:28.840 but then have that environment kill their eggs. So there 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.760 are various at home ways of doing this. So like 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:36.000 you could make a stagnant water thing and then blitz 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.679 up the eggs or filter them out, or you can 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:42.040 put things oversides in there which to kill the eggs. 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:43.719 Some of them also kill the mosquitos when they come 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.760 and lay their eggs. You can also use their little 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.080 hunting senses against them, right, So you can create an 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.000 environment that attracts them either by seeming like a person 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.080 or by seeming like a good place for them to breed. 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.760 And then you can filter out the eggs from where 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:00.960 they lay them, right, you can kill them when they 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.399 come on in. There are things called lava sides. Maybe 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.159 that's what I'm using with my chicken thing actually that 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:09.400 destroy the lava. There are little bricks that you dissolve 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:13.480 in your water, and there are some pretty low risk 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.280 insecticides that you can use. And there are also high 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.960 risk in sexicides, or at least underpopular intexticides. And this 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.720 is where a friend of the Cauzone media network DDT 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.720 comes in. Are you familiar with DDT treed? No, there 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.320 are friends, Yeah, there are friends. We love DDT Big 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.880 Appetise on pod. We love them because until about sixty 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:38.359 years ago, the US government fucking loved DDT. Right. It's 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:42.639 an insecticide. They would put it in walls, in mattresses, 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:45.800