Let's talk about Jurassic Florida Mosquitoes.....
Belle of the Ranch
Belle of the Ranch
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🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:21.0 | Well, howdy there, internet people's bow again so today we are going to talk |
| 0:28.0 | about Jurassic mosquitoes in Florida and that's not a joke about their size, |
| 0:35.0 | there is a wild science experiment going on this weekend. |
| 0:41.0 | Apparently this weekend, mosquitoes will be hatching. |
| 0:46.0 | The males will, uh, well, they've been modified. And they will pass on a gene to their female offspring that will require their female |
| 0:59.4 | offspring to have tetracycline an antibiotic. |
| 1:06.2 | The theory is that they won't get this antibiotic, |
| 1:10.1 | therefore they won't have offspring themselves therefore it will lower the mosquito |
| 1:16.2 | population hopefully reducing mosquito-born disease without the use of pesticides. |
| 1:24.0 | They're doing this down in the keys. |
| 1:27.0 | And I feel like I've seen this movie before. |
| 1:30.0 | So to be clear, you have a genetically modified organism that requires something only the scientists can provide so they don't breed. |
| 1:47.0 | I'm pretty sure in the movie Life Found a Way. I guess we'll have to wait and see if that happens. |
| 1:57.0 | Now, for all of the people who are absolutely going to just freak out over this, and I'm sure there's going to be a lot. |
| 2:05.3 | It's worth noting that they have done this in other countries before with pretty good results |
| 2:17.0 | the idea of cutting down pesticides, especially here in Florida, that's a good thing. I guess we'll have to wait to find out whether or not this was a case of scientists being |
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