When mosquitoes drink blood that contains nitisinone, the drug also blocks this crucial HPPD enzyme in their bodies. This prevents the mosquitoes from properly digesting the blood, causing them to quickly die.

This is starving not poisoning.

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This has the same vibe as "the bullet didn't kill them, it was the blood loss that got them"

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What if the mosquito can’t drink so it goes for a protein bar instead?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

a mosquito walks into a protein bar...

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

The bartender says "why the long nose?x

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