Well, my end goal is to find how to stop them transmitting viruses like dengue and Zika...so I’m working on it!

I’ve known older entomologists who have now developed terrible reactions after a career of blood feeding colonies. That’s usually when the grad student takes over.

We entomologists are a special breed of weirdos. But it’s a good group.

I actually really love my job, and enjoy studying and working with mosquitoes. They have a lot of personality, they are very similar to cats. [I realize this sounds soooo strange]

Yeah, I can understand that since they mostly feed on birds in the wild (from what I’ve read). Quinqs are so ubiquitous that if I need them for something, I can call up a lab and have them ship rafts to me. I’ve never tried blood-feeding them.

I’m not an immunologist, so grain of salt. Some people just don’t develop the immune response from them. You may not get bit by them often enough to develop that kind of allergic reaction. Are you mostly allergy free? Maybe you have a parasitic worm: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/404/enemy-cam…

That is a great question. There are some colonies that we can feed defibrinated bovine blood to (we get it from a supply company) and some mosquito species do well on chicken blood. I unfortunately work with a species that really “prefers” fresh warm human blood, so...it’s all for SCIENCE!

I’m an entomologist and I work with that beautiful specimen you have pictured, Ae. aegypti. To maintain a colony in the lab, I will sometimes have to feed them by sticking my arm into a cage and letting them go to town. My best advice to avoid getting a reaction is to NOT SCRATCH no matter how much they itch. Once you…

My husband was a libertarian when we first started dating, but I think I its because he didn’t have any differing viewpoints in his life. He’s a proud democrat now and voted for Hillary. We still get into arguments about welfare, but we’ve been together for 7 years so it’s a long process.

That was a brave thing for Ice to do; to stand up to asshole Maher on his own show. Even though you could see that Maher was completely denying it in his head. And Miss Sanders made some great points that resonated with me.

Fashion houses do this, too.

The Bolt isn’t even available in all 50 states yet.

Damn, poor guy. Why the hell was a 50 lb dog sitting on someone’s lap? That’s absurd. I hope this will force all airlines to make rules to stop this emotional support animal bullshit. Get well, Mr. Jackson.

ABC’s like...can we count downloads as views? Whatever keeps Steve Harvey on the air, I guess

Solar City wants to rival Duquesne Light! It’s an exciting time to be in the ‘burgh.

The JSimp line has cute shoes.

Caity Weaver and Lindy West are the only ones I’d fangirl over irl, but I’m open to fangirling for others in the future.

Gosh, it’s been so long I can’t remember. Probably about a month, though.

As a Yinzer, I know that Rolling Rock was a popular beer back home because it was made in Latrobe and everybody had an uncle or grandpa or cousin who worked at the brewery. One of my first housewarming gifts was a RR green glass Christmas tree ornament and I still regularly drink from my RR coffee mug. But they closed…

I’ve been on retin-A since 2010 and it is a game changer. I hope you have the same success with it as I’ve had.