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Caption this. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Is this the bottom half of Loss?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Lower two panels of loss meme told with mosquitoes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

average beta male vs sigma lonewolf (me)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week 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.