oh no they found a tick that will single-handedly add 5 years to your life expectancy and save the planet. This is horrible news

    • elpaso [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      8 days ago

      If you don’t have pets, you can put Permethrin on your clothes and let it dry. You will not be fucked with.

      It’s throwing the kitchen sink at the problem though. I’ve accidentally caught a wiff once and was lightheaded for a hot minute.

        • ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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          7 days ago

          We’re so good at making species go extinct. Can’t we use that power for good a couple times?

          Mosquitos aren’t a large portion of any other animal’s diet due to their small size, they don’t pollinate anything that isn’t pollinated by other things (except like a weird niche species of Arctic orchid), they hold no important place in the ecosystem except for spreading misery and disease