Could locusts spread COVID19?

Damn, I feel like GLP's version of Sandman just drug me off to no post land.

Its worthy of research..... What is proven...Mosquitoes are a vector for pathogens including Viruses.

I would look if theres a correlation regarding Locusts and mosquitoes.

flies landing on dead bodies, now thats a real worry

Yeah. Flies.... but also cockroaches.

Flies at least go dormant half the year!

Put the BIBLE down homie.

Haha, I hear ya BitofReason.

Some days are like that. Get sucked into one, two, maybe three threads and then don't check the main page for an hour.

I'm guilty of that myself sometimes

But yes, Mosquitos, Ticks....

Good lord, if this thing becomes insect-carryable, it's goodnight nurse!

Well dont laugh.... Mosquitoes ARE a vector for viruses.... My feeling with some of the machines they are using is about Insect fogging!!.... They are NOT just spraying to kill the virus. They want to contain ALL things that are a vector....

Food for thought...

Locusts do not bite or sting, but they can pierce your skin and suck your blood like a mosquito. They do this not because they are biting or stinging you, but because they think you are a tree and want to eat.

I Think there will be many WOES and plagues and Pestilences coming.....

Lets look at it this way..... Each mosquito Is a `fling hypodermic needle....

This is going to be a MAJOR vector of the virus.

Yea, wasn't really worried about them biting. My concern is the physical contact carrier then dispersal into aerosols as they fly. So imagine they fly to an area that has it. Imagine they fly in and land on infected areas. Carry the particles physically away with them until they fall off as a now aerosol cloud that follows them or when they malt. So either way, they could be a huge, unseen factor in this.

Agreed.....its yet another thing unproven... but has the potential.

Something to look at.... Spanish flu... It reached christmas Isalnd and also Antartica. How and why??

Reading something recently, (locution) which told of insect becoming aware of manz unkindness of nature of sort. Insect it would seem from my reading has become aware and has a special hate for mankind...

Oh dear...

Holy sheep shit.

Hey Trinity, are you becoming a believer yet?

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Remembering way back in youth as horse-fly/gad bit into animal. You had no notion of such fly until you killed the cur after they bit you. Way back then of course we had no Gatez or such ilk...

Just who noze, who noze...

Just what happened you American sniper.

Oh, you writ a novel, Virginia, American picker, Walton mountain...

Grab this before “they” “pull it”

[link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (secure)]

CRISPR/Cas9 in locusts:
Successful establishment of an olfactory deficiency line by targeting the mutagenesis of an odorant receptor co-receptor (Orco).


Li Y, et al. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2016.
Authors
Li Y1, Zhang J1, Chen D2, Yang P1, Jiang F1, Wang X3, Kang L4.
Author information
1
Beijing Institute of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
2
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
3
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
4
Beijing Institute of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. Electronic address: [email protected].
Citation
Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2016 Dec;79:27-35. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2016.10.003. Epub 2016 Oct 12.
Abstract
Locusts are important agricultural pests worldwide and regarded as study models for entomology. However, the absence of targeted gene manipulation systems for locusts has restricted their applications for research. Herein, we report the successful use of the CRISPR/Cas9 system to induce a targeted heritable mutagenesis of the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria.

What does it matter dude? Someone can cough in China and the virus can travel on the wind around the world and someone can catch it. Locusts are the least of your worries.

Well, I don't think locusts but certainly mosquitoes and fleas

Butterfly effect...

Sure. I don't see why not. Doom on

Well they certainly can’t be infected by it

The thing about the Biological Weapon COVID19 is that it contains a "sticky" material that makes it cling to people so it insures death. This is why the concern about it being on surfaces for 28-90 days.

So if COVID19 sticks to locusts as they swarm China, well maybe it could be carried on the wind to other places since the locusts move fast in the environment.

jmho.

The coughing locusts with flying pneumonia.

We are doomed.

Erm.... COVID-19 is the disease, SARS-CoV-2 is the virus.... Just sayin ;)

If this is a chemical weapon, as admitted by the Chinese government, technically it's a chemical. Was grown and placed in a vial. Didn't grow naturally in a person or animal. So like VX it can be transported from one surface to another.

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So... you know the difference between the two descriptions...Right??

Last Edited by Cynical Realist on 02/17/2020 07:24 PM

no just cook and 350 degrees or higher

I suppose we'll find out.

they spread tape worms so why not corona virus.

how about mosquitoes?

just considering the locust angle. Not into arguing virology, thanks tho.