The characters if you gave them flowers

Since I have nothing in here, why not just make stuff about them and react to you! :D (If you want to know how they would react or what would they do in some case scenarios, you can just send an ask, the box is open! :D)

Though, you should be wary with all of them over what kind of flowers you give them-

City Slickers

With 94% of the estimated 229 million cases reported worldwide in 2019, Africa bears the brunt of global malaria infections. Local mosquito vectors, particularly species in the Anopheles gambiae cluster, are already highly effective transmitters of the Plasmodium parasites responsible for the disease, but a new arrival could pose an even greater threat. A mosquito native to India and the Middle East, Anopheles stephensi (pictured, with eggs), is moving in, causing a major malaria outbreak in Djibouti City in 2012, then reaching Ethiopia in 2016, and Sudan in 2019. Unlike native mosquitoes, largely restricted to rural locations, this species thrives in the polluted waters of urban environments, while recent research has confirmed its capacity to efficiently transmit local Plasmodium parasites. Whereas malaria in Africa has traditionally been a largely rural problem, this invasive species puts the continent’s increasingly urban population at greater risk, prompting urgent calls for action.

Written Emmanuelle Briolat

Image from Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Research by Fitsum G. Tadesse and Temesgen Ashine and colleagues

Image copyright held by Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Research published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, February 2021

Some mosquitos…. GIANT mosquitos They can infect you with dengue, zika and malaría Many years ago I suffered from dengue, it is a horrible experience.

The Anopheles gambiae complex contains a number of mosquito species that display an exceptional ability to thrive in complex human habitats. However, new research suggests that the introduction of pesticides by humans and other recent environmental pollutants have caused population differentiation in local mosquito populations. Looking at 941 mosquitos across Cameroon, a new study explores the reasons behind these adaptations, and the potentially significant consequences this could have for malaria epidemiology.

One of the many species of Anopheles mosquito - many of whom are notorious vectors of malaria, and various other parasites such as canine heartworm Dirofilaria immitis, the filarial parasites Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi, and viruses such as one that causes O'nyong'nyong fever. There’s also a suspicion that some species carry a virus that causes brain tumours.

As for A. amictus itself, which breeds in groundpools across much of northern Australia (so what it’s doing down here in Perth is another question entirely) it’s suspected to be a malaria vector, and various viruses including Ross River Virus have been found in them. This one was down at the Peel Inlet, which is an increasingly infamous source of RRV infections. I was bedridden for a week with suspected RRV last month, after a visit to the inlet where I got eaten alive by mosquitoes. On the other hand, Aedes camptorhynchus, the southern saltmarsh mosquito, is a known vector and much more common around the estuary, so maybe these guys were entirely innocent. 

I needed some drawings on the playlist for them at the time being (since it usually helps me develop the story further) and I feel like it is a nice way to start of the showing of the characters