Tonight on CBC (8pm local time across Canada) The Nature of Things with David Suzuki is showing ZAPPED: The Buzz About Mosquitoes, a documentary all about mosquitoes in Canada, the rising potential for mosquito-vectored disease thanks to climate change, and the ways in which Canadian scientists are working hard to stay ahead of them.
Featuring great macrovideography (which you can learn more about with the behind the scences feature on the ZAPPED website), ZAPPED has great potential to spread information and awareness about mosquitoes in Canada.
I’ll be live-tweeting the program tonight @ 8pm EST using the hashtag #CBCZapped, and I hope that if you live in Canada you’ll join me in learning more about the flies people love to hate!
UPDATE: ZAPPED was an excellent documentary and provided a very good overview of many aspects of mosquito biology, ecology and research. It was filled with stunning videography of mosquitoes in all stages of life, and had engaging researchers sharing their work in a way I believe conveyed both the potential risks posed by mosquitoes as well as the exciting advances being made. At a time when mosquito-vectored diseases are arguably posing a greater threat to humanity than at any other point in our history, ZAPPED provided an excellent primer and jumping off point to get the Canadian public interested in and talking about mosquitoes.
http://storify.com/BioInFocus/zapped-the-buzz-about-mosquitoes