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Vooduud616
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Carnivorous Plants and Yeast to Combat Mosquitoes?
#21859061 - 06/26/15 09:15 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Since genetic engineering has advanced so rapidly in the past few years, we've had yeast that can create insulin and morphine. Would it be possible to tweak yeast to produce human odorants? After that we could place yeast inside of pitcher plants that can feed off nectar and attract mosquitoes. It would probably require excess sugar and possibly water changes every once in a while. What do you all think?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11030562
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/yeast-tweaked-brew-batch-morphine-n360711
http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/december2013/12162013mosquitoes.htm
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cowsRmeat
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Re: Carnivorous Plants and Yeast to Combat Mosquitoes? [Re: Vooduud616]
#21859363 - 06/26/15 10:25 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Interesting. I knew mosquitoes were attracted to carbon dioxide, but didn't know they could still smell your skin too...
I think in this day and age, it could be possible to do something like that, no doubt. But it won't...
These companies are driven by money. They would just as soon place an attractant on an electric bug zapper than they would put it in a carnivorous plant. The vast majority of the public wouldn't want to have to take care of a plant as a pest control method, much less a type of plant that is known to be finicky. They'd just rather plug something in, or spray something out of a can. Also, don't most carnivorous plants already produce scents and chemicals that attract insects?
Annyyywaaaayyy... not trying to shoot down a neat idea like that. I do like your idea, I just don't see it actually happening. Not enough profit and limited market.
By the way, Welcome to the Shroomery and to the Ethnobotanical Garden!
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Toadstool5
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Re: Carnivorous Plants and Yeast to Combat Mosquitoes? [Re: cowsRmeat]
#21860452 - 06/26/15 02:47 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Its easier and cheaper to target the non-mobile larvae while they are in bodies of water. The california buckeye is extremely effective. One nut will kill all larvae in about a 1mile radius of where you dropped it into the water.
They even have a concentrate now because it works so well.
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