if all this AI hacking and shit breaks the internet like totally just turns off the spigot then i guess it was really nice knowing everybody! if you need me i'll be at winco

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The EPG trace allows us to split a bite into five phases: skin piercing, blood-vessel searching, blood ingestion, mouthpart retraction and mouthpart withdrawal. An average An. coluzzii bite lasts 160 s. Finding the vessel takes ~21 s. Drinking takes ~128 s. 9/18

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In our study, the host was a human arm (using our bite box) or a hand (with EPG). Fewer than 15% of Anopheles will probe an artificial membrane feeder on first encounter. On a real human, 100% probed. They are picking up on a myriad of sensory cues that direct them to bite. 8/18

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Below the skin, we used electropenetrography (EPG), originally used with plant-feeding insects and shown to work in Aedes. A gold wire is glued to her thorax, the human host holds an electrode, and the circuit closes when the mosquito pierces the skin. Below-skin activities become voltage. 7/18

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