What kind of blood do insects have?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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If you’ve ever smacked a mosquito on your arm, you might have seen a little smear of red blood on your skin afterward. But just whose blood was it? Do we have the same blood as insects? We asked biologist Claire Rusch from the University of Washington to help us find the answer. Got a question that’s buzzing around in your brain? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, because we’re the type to help you find an answer! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. And guess what? It's eke-week.
0:07.0	Ooh.
0:09.0	Momentive!
0:10.0	Um, um, um.
0:20.0	Moment of um comes to you from EPM Studios.
0:22.6	I'm Baby Taylor and I'm a mosquito.
0:25.6	Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi.
0:28.6	Um...
0:30.6	I'm here with my mom, Jeannie Taylor.
0:33.6	Hi, Mom.
0:34.6	Hiya, sweetie.
0:36.6	Mom, you're a really cool mom. Thanks, sweetie. You're cool, too. No, you're a really cool, Mom. You're a really cool, mom.
0:38.5	Thanks, sweetie. You're cool, too.
0:40.6	No, I'm not. I'm warm.
0:45.7	Good one, gal, pal.
0:47.4	Hey, mom. We love humans, right?
0:49.7	Oh, yes. They are very important to us in so many ways.
0:53.7	Could I be a human if I wanted?
0:56.2	Not yet, hon.
0:57.4	Scientists haven't found out a way to turn mosquitoes into humans yet.
1:01.1	But what about the 1986 science fiction movie The Fly,
1:04.3	where brilliant but eccentric Jeff Goldblum turns into a half-man, half-fly hybrid
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