The Hello, welcome to the naked scientist with me Chris Smith.

This week we have a special Q&A show and our panel of experts are going to be taking on your science-related questions,

including, if you sneeze with your eyes open, do they pop out?

Can animals predict forthcoming earthquakes?

And what happens when something gets sucked into a black hole?

If you have a gaping black hole in your knowledge, this is the show to be listening to.

Stay tuned for the answers.

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Let's meet our panel Max Graves a zoologist. He also won his local Fame Lab final, so he's a good communicator.

Zephyr Penoia is an astrophysicist so he's happy to talk about space science and our own Georgia

Mills is here and specialises in dinosaurs and evolution.

Plus I'll fill in the gaps with any medical questions that you might have for us. First up Max, here's one that's come in for you.

This is Sean from New Hampshire.

With many animals it's obvious the value they add to the ecosystem,

but I'm struggling to find the value with ticks and mosquitoes. What value do they have besides ruining

the enjoyment of my porch and a nice evening?

Indeed, what do you think?

Um, also the problem here is the difference between value to him as an individual versus value to an ecosystem.

We don't get a lot of benefit ourselves from mosquitoes, but they feed into the food chain much like anything else would to an ecosystem.

There's lots of birds and lots of fish, particularly freshwater fish,

that eat the larvae of the mosquitoes and then birds will eat the adults more.

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