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Wolbachia is "healthy gut microbiota" but for mosquitoes. It prevents their infection by many viruses.
by henearkr 3y ago
Wolbachia is "healthy gut microbiota" but for mosquitoes.
It prevents their infection by many viruses.
- smt88 3y agoIt seems that it shortens their lives, so it's not healthy for them.
- gehwartzen 3y agolong life riddled with parasites or somewhat shorter life sans parasites. I feel like they would be cool with it
- smt88 3y agoMosquitoes aren't affected by dengue. It's a human disease. Even if they were affected by it, they don't feel pain or have emotions, so they'd "choose" to live longer.
- lisper 3y agoThey would choose to live longer in the same sense that water chooses to flow downhill.
- Smoosh 3y ago> they don't feel pain Really? > We found “strong evidence” for pain experiences in adults of two orders, Diptera (flies and mosquitoes) and Blattodea (cockroaches and termites). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0065280622000170 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00652...
- smt88 3y agoReacting to harm is not the same as suffering. As far as we know, suffering requires nerves and cognition that mosquitoes don't have (not even close).
- deadbeeves 3y agoInsects have nervous systems. Nearly all animals do.
- arapacana 3y agoyes, as far as you know from your 1-sample subjective experience of being a human being, that other beings with nervous systems don't suffer.
- henearkr 3y agoAh you're right. Somehow I had in my head that it was the contrary. Probably because [I also thought that] W. increases their reproductive fitness (but yeah shortens their lifespan). And even the reproductive fitness thing, it seems I've hallucinated it after all...
- miked85 3y agoHealthy for everything else though
- tumsfestival 3y agoFine with me, they can be as unhealthy as possible for all I care. Little bastards deserve the worst in life.