Dear friends,
I wonder if anti-mosquito vaporizers kill them?
It seems that mosquito coils do, as they contain an insecticide:
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Do vaporizers kill mosquitoes?
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Anyone wondered about that?
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Do they vaporize the mosquito, or vaporize some other substance, which is either a repellent (non-lethal), or poison (lethal)?
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There are different sorts. I have come across sandalwood sticks and lavender oil ones which are natural repellents.
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This is a range of products including incenses called Colibri ( I think) which smell nice...lemony....and which repel insects.Dan74 wrote:There are different sorts. I have come across sandalwood sticks and lavender oil ones which are natural repellents.
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I will never understand why making insects be homeless and starve to death is more compassionate than a brief swat.
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Hey, Individual!
When I don't get food in one shop, it doesn't make me homeless, nor will I starve. I'll just go to another one.
Mosquitos too.
When I don't get food in one shop, it doesn't make me homeless, nor will I starve. I'll just go to another one.
Mosquitos too.
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So it's OK to force insects to leave your home, because they will just go and bother somebody else.Annapurna wrote:Hey, Individual!
When I don't get food in one shop, it doesn't make me homeless, nor will I starve. I'll just go to another one.
Mosquitos too.
If the shoplifter doesn't learn his lesson or go to jail, there's no long-term gain if he leaves your store without stealing anything.
On top of this, it is disputable whether insects should be regarded as "sentient beings," or if they are something more like plants or bacteria. Because invertebrates (creatures without a spine) have less advanced nervous systems, so they may not have a capacity for suffering.
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Individual wrote:So it's OK to force insects to leave your home, because they will just go and bother somebody else.Annapurna wrote:Hey, Individual!
When I don't get food in one shop, it doesn't make me homeless, nor will I starve. I'll just go to another one.
Mosquitos too.
If the shoplifter doesn't learn his lesson or go to jail, there's no long-term gain if he leaves your store without stealing anything.
On top of this, it is disputable whether insects should be regarded as "sentient beings," or if they are something more like plants or bacteria. Because invertebrates (creatures without a spine) have less advanced nervous systems, so they may not have a capacity for suffering.
Sure. I solve my problems, and they solve theirs.So it's OK to force insects to leave your home, because they will just go and bother somebody else.
I catch mine and carry them out. I talk to them: "Don't be scared, its just a free ride in a glass." I even think they understand because then they sit down and don't want to come out.
I'm a 100 % sure they are sentient. Think of eyes. Eyes are a sense faculty. They have big eyes and see you coming. They fear you kill them and try to fly away.On top of this, it is disputable whether insects should be regarded as "sentient beings," or if they are something more like plants or bacteria. Because invertebrates (creatures without a spine) have less advanced nervous systems, so they may not have a capacity for suffering
All this constitutes sentience.
But you definitely have more sentience than a mosquito. Your nervous system is far more evolved than a mosquitos.
Still, we shouldn't think of our own suffering too highly, and too lowly of theirs.
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Individual wrote:starve to death
Both male and female mosquitoes are nectar feeders, but the females of many species are also capable of drinking blood from many mammals. Females do not require blood for their own survival, but they do need supplemental substances such as protein and iron to develop eggs.
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What is the reason for the question?Oleksandr wrote:Dear friends,
I wonder if anti-mosquito vaporizers kill them?
It seems that mosquito coils do, as they contain an insecticide:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_coil" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Just that! *smile*
...We Buddhists must find the courage to leave our temples and enter the temples of human experience, temples that are filled with suffering. If we listen to Buddha, Christ, or Gandhi, we can do nothing else. The refugee camps, the prisons, the ghettos, and the battlefields will become our temples. We have so much work to do. ... Peace is Possible! Step by Step. - Samtach Preah Maha Ghosananda "Step by Step" http://www.ghosananda.org/bio_book.html
BUT! it is important to become a real Buddhist first. Like Punna did: Punna Sutta Nate sante baram sokham _()_
...We Buddhists must find the courage to leave our temples and enter the temples of human experience, temples that are filled with suffering. If we listen to Buddha, Christ, or Gandhi, we can do nothing else. The refugee camps, the prisons, the ghettos, and the battlefields will become our temples. We have so much work to do. ... Peace is Possible! Step by Step. - Samtach Preah Maha Ghosananda "Step by Step" http://www.ghosananda.org/bio_book.html
BUT! it is important to become a real Buddhist first. Like Punna did: Punna Sutta Nate sante baram sokham _()_
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It is obvious: I don't want to be bitten by mosquitoes and don't want to kill them.Hanzze wrote:What is the reason for the question?
Anyway, I haven't yet found an answer to my question.
And if we talk about repellents, what will they do to a mosquito if he's not able to escape from the room and have to breath this repellent?
It seems that I need to find a biologist to ask him
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Hi Oleksandr
A repellant repels. It doesn't kill. It just causes discomfort if the insect gets close to the repellant agent.
kind regards
Ben
A repellant repels. It doesn't kill. It just causes discomfort if the insect gets close to the repellant agent.
kind regards
Ben
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why do you like to be not bitten?Oleksandr wrote:Hanzze wrote:What is the reason for the question? [/quote
It is obvious: I don't want to be bitten by mosquitoes and don't want to kill them.
Just that! *smile*
...We Buddhists must find the courage to leave our temples and enter the temples of human experience, temples that are filled with suffering. If we listen to Buddha, Christ, or Gandhi, we can do nothing else. The refugee camps, the prisons, the ghettos, and the battlefields will become our temples. We have so much work to do. ... Peace is Possible! Step by Step. - Samtach Preah Maha Ghosananda "Step by Step" http://www.ghosananda.org/bio_book.html
BUT! it is important to become a real Buddhist first. Like Punna did: Punna Sutta Nate sante baram sokham _()_
...We Buddhists must find the courage to leave our temples and enter the temples of human experience, temples that are filled with suffering. If we listen to Buddha, Christ, or Gandhi, we can do nothing else. The refugee camps, the prisons, the ghettos, and the battlefields will become our temples. We have so much work to do. ... Peace is Possible! Step by Step. - Samtach Preah Maha Ghosananda "Step by Step" http://www.ghosananda.org/bio_book.html
BUT! it is important to become a real Buddhist first. Like Punna did: Punna Sutta Nate sante baram sokham _()_
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As you have it already and all to run it. But its producing, its refilling the energy for it, its transport and so on even blogging the answers and questions here kills. Therefor, why do you like to be not bitten? What is the root of the problem? Solving in the thought way does not work.Ben wrote: It doesn't kill.
Ben
Just that! *smile*
...We Buddhists must find the courage to leave our temples and enter the temples of human experience, temples that are filled with suffering. If we listen to Buddha, Christ, or Gandhi, we can do nothing else. The refugee camps, the prisons, the ghettos, and the battlefields will become our temples. We have so much work to do. ... Peace is Possible! Step by Step. - Samtach Preah Maha Ghosananda "Step by Step" http://www.ghosananda.org/bio_book.html
BUT! it is important to become a real Buddhist first. Like Punna did: Punna Sutta Nate sante baram sokham _()_
...We Buddhists must find the courage to leave our temples and enter the temples of human experience, temples that are filled with suffering. If we listen to Buddha, Christ, or Gandhi, we can do nothing else. The refugee camps, the prisons, the ghettos, and the battlefields will become our temples. We have so much work to do. ... Peace is Possible! Step by Step. - Samtach Preah Maha Ghosananda "Step by Step" http://www.ghosananda.org/bio_book.html
BUT! it is important to become a real Buddhist first. Like Punna did: Punna Sutta Nate sante baram sokham _()_