Talk:Ceratopogonidae
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[edit] Ceratopogonidae Information Exchange
This link is probably just temporarily disabled, not permanently disabled.
--Squamate 16:32, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- Google has
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- 25 for "Ceratopogonidae Information Exchange".
- The first of them is
- which lks to what i take to be a decade of the informal journal.
--Jerzy•t 06:32, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup?
Does every other word [or every third] need to be a link? I'm all for clearing up confusion by linking to other articles, but links to words like "Blood" "Compost" "Predator" and "Mountain" seem redundant. Makes the article hard to read. Ghostalker 06:10, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
- I agree --WaterWolf 15:09, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Itchy Bite
Culicoides Impunctatus, the Highland midge, has an itchy bite in all animals, not just horses as far as I'm aware. That's why it's such a pest. I'm not an expert so can anyone explain to me why the bite is itchy and is it something that should be mentioned in this article ? --WaterWolf 15:09, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
- Follow the link to sweet itch and you'll find out why the bite is itchy. Sweet itch is a serious veterinary problem. See page 181 in Mullen, G. & L. Durden, eds. (2002). Medical and Veterinary Entomology. London: Academic Press (Elsevier Science). It is definitely "something that should be mentioned in this article". Squamate 19:16, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Restoration of forensic-midgery sentence
The summary
- That sentence is utterly insane...how would a lawyer ever find one little bug that bit one person and then use that as DNA evidence? And bugs fly, that evidence would be laughed at in court
was given as justification for the removal of
- Blood ingested by biting midges captured in an area of interest can provide legally admissible DNA identification of persons present there.{{Fact|date=May 2008}}
which had been added at 03:33, 29 March 2008 by Runwild2006 (talk · contribs), who edited from 28 March to 16 April, and is likely to have been a participant in a 400-level forensic entomology course at a highly respected university. No doubt that editor could tell you off the top of their head what i thot i knew and found confirmed (not about midges, but about a hematophagous insect of another family): that there may be nothing nicer, after sucking some blood, than a day or three of rest.
Even if those specifics were not at hand as reasons, i would restore the sentence in light of the piss-poor argumentation in the summary: we are asked to regard the contribution as "utterly insane" because "bugs fly" (irrelevant: midges ain't bugs; also false: nothing simply "flies", some insects can fly, but those who can do so only with a good reason, i.e. under circumstances where flying gave their ancestors a wing up on their cousins who didn't fly under those circumstances). Or, for that matter, i hadn't seen a mosquito near home yet this season, but i hiked on an overgrown floodplain along a turbid river earlier this week, and 24 hours later there was a mosquito who hadn't even flown out of my car -- something about the windows being up, i think. Suppose the vehicle belonged to the crime victim?
As to the lawyer part, she would probably find that crucial midge by asking for it from the police forensic entomologist who, depending on various circumstances, would have spread out cloth or netting and released something that would stun or kill all the insects of interest, causing them to drop onto that collection material, and would have saved all that had had a recent blood meal.
Such evidence may actually provoke laughter, but would such laughter last all the way to the execution gurney?
(BTW, you don't need to study such courses as i suggested the contributor may have, to see that; i don't think any of my two-day first-aid courses have covered what i've said here, so it's fair in substance to summarize: i haven't taken any life-sciences courses since the 8th grade, more decades ago than you want to think about. Humility about one's knowledge is much more important than the knowledge itself.)
--Jerzy•t 05:43, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
