| This is great, the first mosquito that I've ever caught alive. I'll go for him, yeah, hold on. It's like the worst camping trip ever, isn't it? These adults will be ground up so their DNA can be extracted. Yeah, this feels a lot like payback, isn't it? I've been bitten by a lot of mosquitoes in various places, and it's really nice to know they're going to grind all these up. That will tell Yvonne which species are here. Must be thousands in here. And how many of these mosquitoes are potential carriers of malaria. I wasn't expecting to spend the day surrounded by mosquitoes, knee-deep in sheep droppings. I couldn't see them in the tunnel, that's ridiculous. That's great, isn't it? It's true that in UK there hasn't been many many studies on mosquitoes over the last 50 years, because we thought that we'd done our job. We need to know our enemy, so we know how to control it and minimise the risk to all of us here in UK. |
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