The Mosquito That Doesn’t Bite You, Even Though It Could

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If you know one thing about mosquitoes, it’s probably their lust for blood. But there’s actually one species that almost never bites, even though it can. Could finding out why help us combat blood-borne diseases? Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Nazara Growing Violet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Alisa Sherbow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/5/1009 https://www.pnas.org/content/115/5/836.full https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01648.x https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/107/2/181/188441 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00436-015-4586-9 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00367.x Image Sources: https

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