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Autumn🦟
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🦟Mosquitoes, I also enjoy football⚽️
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Lots of cool insect pics & facts.
Teach the kids with a hands on approach. Horseshoe crab tagging along the DE Bay last month.
June 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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🧪🦟 Can confirm that the Smithsonian will keep ownership of the 1.5 million specimens and perhaps some limited staff from WRBU however most were either fired or moved to military facilities. With so much happening around us it's hard to focus but expect to hear more from me about this going forward.
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I just heard this from the source today. This had been brewing since last year. It's amazingly short sighted and indicative of decisions made by people who don'tunderstand the value of this group. It will have long lasting negative repurcussions for mosquito borne disease.
FYI. Shuttered, yesterday. I’m ready to start eating the rich now.
March 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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If you're not familiar with the WRBU it was formed by the US Army back in the 1960s to catalog and study mosquitoes from around the world but focused on locations like SE Asia with active theaters. Since then they've published hundreds of papers and amassed a collection of over 1 million mosquitoes.
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I just heard this from the source today. This had been brewing since last year. It's amazingly short sighted and indicative of decisions made by people who don'tunderstand the value of this group. It will have long lasting negative repurcussions for mosquito borne disease.
FYI. Shuttered, yesterday. I’m ready to start eating the rich now.
March 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I just heard this from the source today. This had been brewing since last year. It's amazingly short sighted and indicative of decisions made by people who don'tunderstand the value of this group. It will have long lasting negative repurcussions for mosquito borne disease.
FYI. Shuttered, yesterday. I’m ready to start eating the rich now.
🦟To piggy back, the Walter Reed Biosystematics unit (WRBU), which has it's collections under the SI, also has a page dedicated to mosquitoes info. Lot of really good images there too.
wrbu.si.edu
March 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
FYI. Shuttered, yesterday. I’m ready to start eating the rich now.
🦟To piggy back, the Walter Reed Biosystematics unit (WRBU), which has it's collections under the SI, also has a page dedicated to mosquitoes info. Lot of really good images there too.
wrbu.si.edu
March 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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44 countries and 1 territory are now malaria-free, certified by WHO. 🌍💪

In October, #Egypt 🇪🇬 joined the list — a huge public health win for Africa’s 3rd most populous country!

#EndMalaria
December 17, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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November 21, 2024 at 5:57 PM