• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Yeah I’m hoping it does well. That is what they were looking into in other countries to use for mosquitos and such.

    It’s a much better plan than when Florida bred love-bugs and released them hoping they would eat the mosquitoes. The mosquitos stayed, and then they had love bugs splattered everywhere twice a year for probably 2 decades now. (I think they are slowly dying out though)

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      2 days ago

      Thought I found a cool new fact, turns out to be a myth. :(

      In yet another sign of collapse, there were hardly any this past September.

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        2 days ago

        I thought they bred them to increase populations, that’s funny though when I looked up the myths, DNA splicing to create new bugs haha, yeah that’s a bit beyond the times

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          2 days ago

          They were so thick in past years that would have made sense! And yet no one has noticed that their populations have crashed.