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361: No Such Thing As The Mosquito Effect

No Such Thing As A Fish

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How to Get Mosquitoes to Mate With Each Other

Insects don't have such good thermo regulation as we do. So when they feed off our blood, which is obviously at our warm blooded body temperature, they get boiling hot. The only way that they survive it is by urinating all over themselves and bleeding on their buns. Scientists are really confused about why theyd waste fresh blood. And if you're a mosquito researcher, do you know how you get mosquitoes to mate with each other? It's very sexy stuff.

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