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I thought it was going to be a breed of mosquito that couldn't/wouldn't bite humans. doh...
Female mosquitoes must feed on blood to be able to reproduce so engineering a bite-free mosquito is impossible.
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Female mosquitoes must feed on blood to be able to reproduce so engineering a bite-free mosquito is impossible.
But you could in theory have a mosquito that is repelled by humans, and only feeds on birds.
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Female mosquitoes must feed on blood to be able to reproduce so engineering a bite-free mosquito is impossible.
But you could in theory have a mosquito that is repelled by humans, and only feeds on birds.
The fact is that there are a lot of extant mosquito species that do exactly that and they are here since millions of years. They did not have displaced the other mosquitoes and they didn't fix the problem with malaria.
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But you could in theory have a mosquito that is repelled by humans, and only feeds on birds.
That trait is going to end up being selected against very quickly. Humans are much more plentiful.
How many birds: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/03/how-many-birds
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That trait is going to end up being selected against very quickly. Humans are much more plentiful.
More plentiful than what? There are an estimated 200-400 billion birds in the world, with 10-20 billion in (for example) the US alone. Or did you mean something else? How many birds: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/03/how-many-birds