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Cross breed Venus-Fly-Trap plants with a bat or some other biological creature that ingests mesquitoes and get a Venus-Mesquito-Trap plant. Set them out in the evening and enjoy a sultery evening without flying pests...
(?) Mesquite
http://aggie-hortic...ransas/Mesquite.htm
[jutta, Jul 31 2001]
(?) Mosquito
http://eddie.cis.uo...s/pics/mosquito.jpg
[jutta, Jul 31 2001]
Venus Cat Trap
http://www.halfbake.../Venus_20Cat_20Trap
For larger domestic pests. [8th of 7, Oct 17 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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[sp: mosquito, sultry. (Fixed in idea name.)] |
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While we're using poorly understood genetical engineering as a convenient source of miracles, splice in some luminescent jellyfish and earth worms and get a nice chain of party lights in the bargain! |
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Hmmm. Dragonflies are great eaters of mosquitoes, but pretty much daytime hunters. As jutta notes, crossing plants and animals is awfully fanciful stuff; maybe you'd have better luck selectively breeding to get nocturnal, lawn-based dragonflies. |
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Personal observation: even when mosquitoes swarm in the woods, the shores of some lakes here in the wilds of darkest Oregon are blessedly mosquito-free. I think it's because big, beautiful dragonflies are so common along the shorelines. |
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'Should we tell him it's a boy cow?'
"He'll figure it out." |
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Actually, fly eating plants will eat mosquitos if the mosquitos are fed to it. The problem is that such plants do not emit a scent to attract the annoying pests. Therefore, a better idea would be to develop a fly eating plant that gives off a scent that the little blood-suckers find attractive. I would bloody well think this would be much more easily done than crossing plants and animals. |
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Sundews (Drosera) or butterworts (Pinguicula) will catch
mosquitos quite nicely. You just need enough of them
growing nearby (in hanging baskets?) to lower the odds of
a mosquito making it across the garden to your arm to
acceptable levels. |
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With [El Pedanto]'s suggestion, this actually becomes quite viable. |
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//splice in some luminescent jellyfish and earth worms
and get a nice chain of party lights in the bargain!// |
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Actually, with modern techniques this is not very difficult
<g>. The green fluorescent protein from the jellyfish
Aqueora victoria is widely used to make other cells
and even organisms fluoresce. |
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Problem is, you need a blue light of the right wavelength
to excite the fluorescence. They don't just glow in the
dark. |
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