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Hundreds of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes set to be released into the Florida Keys
Daily Mail ^
| 18:01 EST, 6 December 2012
| Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 12/06/2012 6:52:36 PM PST by null and void
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To: null and void
What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
12/06/2012 7:55:52 PM PST
by
upchuck
(America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
To: John 3_19-21
Just wondering......... arent mosquito larvae a major food source for the baby fish in the everglades?Yes, but there are PLENTY of native mosquito species in Florida.
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posted on
12/06/2012 7:56:56 PM PST
by
null and void
(Going Galt: The won't of the people)
To: null and void
Messing with the genes of animals that live off our blood and pass our blood around... What could possibly go wrong??
43
posted on
12/06/2012 8:00:56 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: John 3_19-21
If a pond has fish in it, there will not be many mosquitoes produced in that pond. As you say, the fish will eat the wigglers or larvae.
They really are prodcued by mud puddles or any standing water which has no fish in it. I forget the details but they can live and I think reproduce in high grass.
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posted on
12/06/2012 8:04:15 PM PST
by
yarddog
(One shot one miss.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
They are the only polinators for some small flowers. I think I could live without the flowers.
45
posted on
12/06/2012 8:16:07 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: t1b8zs
Crossbow works way better and doesn’t harm non woody stemmed plants.
46
posted on
12/06/2012 8:23:56 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Whod weep if mosquitoes became extinct? Bats and birds like swallows would die off as well.
EVERYTHING you do has consequences, some you foresee and many that don't come to light until there is a major backlash. Even Ralph Nader has come around to admit the major mistake of his life was to work for the banning of DDT. Millions of people, mainly children have died of malaria since the ban went into effect. DDT was and still is the most effective way to control malaria carrying mosquitoes.
It's not nice to fool with mother nature...she has a way of turning around and biting you in the butt.
Regards,
GtG
PS I would not miss ticks however!
47
posted on
12/06/2012 8:51:21 PM PST
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Carson’s new book, “Silent Camping.”
48
posted on
12/06/2012 8:51:42 PM PST
by
dagogo redux
(A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
To: null and void
Dengue? Here I was worrying about West Nile virus!
49
posted on
12/06/2012 8:56:24 PM PST
by
Seizethecarp
(Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
To: null and void
hundreds of thousands.....I have that meny in my back yard and I live in Indiana....and its 30 degrees!!
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posted on
12/06/2012 8:58:11 PM PST
by
terycarl
To: Brandonmark
51
posted on
12/06/2012 10:47:21 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Don't tax me bro! Tax that guy over there!)
To: null and void
Heck - they imported kudzu to control erosion and nothing went wrong with that experiment.....wait I think I hear some vines brushing my window - last I looked they were 50’ from the house... wonder how they got so close...
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posted on
12/07/2012 3:02:33 AM PST
by
trebb
(Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
To: null and void
Great, now Florida will look like something out of Jumanji.
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posted on
12/07/2012 3:25:59 AM PST
by
tbpiper
To: FlingWingFlyer
54
posted on
12/07/2012 3:39:18 AM PST
by
Ezekiel
(The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
To: null and void
Sure, mosquitoes are bad in the Keys, but the no-see-ums are far worse.
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posted on
12/07/2012 4:54:27 AM PST
by
jsh3180
To: t1b8zs
..Not sure but I think Kudzu was another brain child of the gvmnt too?
yea, look at how that worked
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posted on
12/07/2012 9:57:33 AM PST
by
rightly_dividing
(Left behind; 4 Americans in Libya)
To: null and void
This is a call for ‘Mansquito’ !
queu Dennis Miller
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