I tend to be that guy who doesn’t get bit while sitting next to someone (usually my wife) who gets eaten alive. Not sure why or how that works.

Now if these guys can get together with those guys who figured out the mosquito gut microbes, maybe they can design a lure/feeder and solve the problem that way. Get ‘em to go where you want, then feed ‘em microbes to take care of the parasites.

If they can figure out what disrupts the mosquito, they should be able to figure out what really excites it, too. The two strategies could work together, one sending the pest away from us, the other attracting it to where we want, where it gets free food and medicine.

We’ll never be able to wipe out all the mosquitoes, and probably shouldn’t want to. All the things that eat them would be in peril. But if we try to slightly modify their environment by working with nature instead of against it, we might at least be able to coexist.