2y ago

Millions of fruit flies will be dropped on Los Angeles

thehill.com

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Now officials plan to release sterile male fruit flies in the area, to reduce the population of the invaders.
The sterile males mate with the females, which fail to produce offspring, reducing the population over time.
- Henry Wu : Actually they can't breed in the wild. Population control is one of our security precautions. There's no unauthorized breeding in Jurassic Park.
  Dr. Ian Malcolm : How do you know they can't breed?
  Henry Wu : Well, because all the animals in Jurassic Park are female. We've engineered them that way.
  
  But again, how do you know they're all female? Does someone go into the park and, uh... pull up the dinosaurs' skirts?
They should be introducing millions of frogs to combat the fruit flies.
- But then what about the frogs?
  
  Snakes
I'm Hungry. I saw this before reading the title. It looks like a top view of a taco. That looks really tasty. Then I realized this was not a taco and I have brought much shame upon my family.
- That taco is all shell. Likely to trigger chitin allergies if you eat too much. Don't recommend.
  
  Dude. It looked delicious. Like an open taco bell 7 layer burrito or something.
Now do mosquitos
Earlier this month, the California Department of Food and Agriculture quarantined 69 square miles of metro L.A. after invasive and destructive Mediterranean fruit flies were found at a home in the Leimert Park neighborhood.
Now, officials are planning to use small planes to drop millions of the insects in an effort to eradicate them, SFGATE reports.
- Now officials plan to release sterile male fruit flies in the area, to reduce the population of the invaders.
  Important point you missed in your comment.
  
  Life finds a way.
  
  Lmao just saw ppl downvoting me. I was providing MORE context than the title because I was curious. What I pasted wasn't "scary" to me and of course they aren't going to just going to release a fuckton of fertile bugs to "eradicate" another bug.
  Yall are daft.
- What what what what

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