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[–] EvilFonzy@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

Is this the bottom half of Loss?

[–] hihi24522@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

Lower two panels of loss meme told with mosquitoes

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago

I'll caption it with fire, aedes aegypti should burn in hell

[–] callyral@pawb.social 4 points 11 months ago

average beta male vs sigma lonewolf (me)

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How is this useful? Shouldn't the female be deaf - or is there something about mosquito mating I don't understand.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Doesn't matter if the female is deaf. She still calls for mating and the males will hear her.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think this is useful. Looks like an explanation about why deaf mosquitoes aren't common.

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It could be useful to reduce their numbers, as long as the female passes the mutation to its children.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

The males won't pass the mutation to their children, enforcing that it will disappear in 5 or 6 generations... So, if it does anything, it will last for a couple of months at most.

But also, it doesn't slow down the females at all, and the male mosquito population isn't usually the bottleneck on their reproduction.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

something something autism