I think it is probably a safe assumption that the mosquito is one of the most loathed creatures on the planet. They can cause deadly diseases like malaria and they can make life nearly unbearable with their itchy bites.
Having said that, they are interesting critters and I know that there are laboratories where people raise them.
I'm curious if any zoos or natural history museums have ever put together a live mosquito exhibit and what the message of such an exhibit would be.
In another thread on rain forest exhibit design Zooplantman once wrote about a plan for a simulated swarm of mosquitoes following visitors through a rain forest exhibit via recordings of their sounds surrounding you.
That brings up an interesting aspect of zoo rainforest exhibits that is usually missing, which is that they are authentic biodiversity wonder lands but they are also hellholes of disease and decay. I think that there is a really fascinating and entertaining rain forest exhibit waiting to be built out there featuring mosquitoes, botflies, a simulated leech attack and some kind of display on all of the fun diseases bopping around the forests like Ebola viruses and dengue fever. Has anybody ever seen a forest exhibit display anything like this?
Having said that, they are interesting critters and I know that there are laboratories where people raise them.
I'm curious if any zoos or natural history museums have ever put together a live mosquito exhibit and what the message of such an exhibit would be.
In another thread on rain forest exhibit design Zooplantman once wrote about a plan for a simulated swarm of mosquitoes following visitors through a rain forest exhibit via recordings of their sounds surrounding you.
That brings up an interesting aspect of zoo rainforest exhibits that is usually missing, which is that they are authentic biodiversity wonder lands but they are also hellholes of disease and decay. I think that there is a really fascinating and entertaining rain forest exhibit waiting to be built out there featuring mosquitoes, botflies, a simulated leech attack and some kind of display on all of the fun diseases bopping around the forests like Ebola viruses and dengue fever. Has anybody ever seen a forest exhibit display anything like this?
