Banana Bugs Game [UPDATED]
Tristan Ridings
Hey guys! So when I stream I use voicemeter for my audio input device. At times I have to keep restarting the engine and it's annoying doing it every 10 mins or so. Does anyone here use Voicemeter banana and is facing the same issue? If you're can you help or do you know how to fix this? Like sometimes the audio disappears, makes me sound robotic, just sounds terrible.
Get a glass, fill it about 1/4 - 1/2 full of RED wine. Wrap the glass in saran (clear plastic wrap) and use a toothpick to poke about a dozen or so holes in the top of the wrap, which will allow access into the cup for fruit flies. Put the glass with the punctured wrap right next to the bananas, or in any other place in the kitchen that you are seeing the flies. You may want to use multiple cups.
Drape mosquito netting over them, or use some similar fine mesh. That allows air to flow and (if the holes are small enough) will prevent fruit flies from landing on them. Just make sure to "tent" the mesh/netting so that it's not directly touching the bananas; if it's touching the netting, I'd be worried about fruit flies somehow reaching through the holes in the netting and nibbling at the bananas' peels (or laying eggs or whatever they do).
Peel the ripe bananas and store them in the freezer in a ziploc-type bag.It's then really easy to use them as and when you need them, especially if using them in smoothies.Ideally buy them ripe from the store so you can peel them immediately and don't have to leave them to ripen.As Alex says, putting them in the fridge should slow down the ripening process, so I guess you can even store the peeled bananas in the fridge too.
Flair's contention that [putting bananas] in the fridge [...] causes them to ripen quickly is false, though a common misconception. Actually, refrigerating bananas cause their peels (aka skins--the terms are apparently interchangeable) to blacken (as explained here), but the fruit itself keeps quite well (as explained here). Unless you plan on eating (or displaying :-) banana peels, banana fruit ripens more slowly when refrigerated. So if you're only eating the fruit, do what I do:
That being said, note also that banana peels/skins are edible! though they require quite a bit of preparation. Banana-peel cake is apparently popular in Brazil; some English-language recipes are here and here.
The thing that really attracts fruit flies is when the banana tears open and the pulp is exposed.The best way to avoid this is to separate them when they are not yet ripened; that way you won't tear open by grabbing or clasping to tear one away. =kn4p6WnGOmg&t=1s
Experimental design. Experiments were performed with bananas (Cavendish; Musa acuminate (L.)) and green grapes (Thompson; Vitis vinifera L.) purchased from local grocery stores. Bananas varied in degree of ripeness at the time of consumption from green-yellow to yellow with few black spots.
To test whether attractiveness might change following ingestion of a banana, we used a bioassay in which human skin compounds are transferred to a glass vial when rubbed by the subjects. This procedure eliminates the need to expose subjects to mosquito bites [7,22,24,25]. Subjects rolled a capped, clean glass vial (6.4 1.7 cm) between their hands for 2 min. Vials were prefilled with distilled water at 37 C to simulate human body temperature and to increase volatilization of transferred compounds [22]. The vial was rapidly transferred to a 1 gal plastic carton (17.4 cm tall by 17.2 cm diameter) containing 20 naïve, colony-raised female mosquitoes. The warmed vial was placed on the floor of the carton and positioned vertically.
Experiment 3. In 2011, mosquitoes were placed in experimental cages the day before the experiments and the sugar water was replaced with water overnight. Cages were allowed to acclimate to the room for at least 1 h before the trials. We randomized the subjects (N = 20, 9 males, 11 females), so half of the group received grapes and the other half received bananas during the same trial. In a second trial (about one month later), the reciprocal treatment was applied to each individual. The contact assays were performed before and at 1 and 2 h post-ingestion of the fruit.
Experiment 4. In 2011 and 2012, a single student carried out repeated trials to determine the consistency of the banana effect. The student wore disposable gloves to peel the banana and then used a fork for ingestion. Over the course of 15 weeks (15 trials), he measured contact rates at 1 h post-ingestion for A. stephensi. On two occasions, he consumed three bananas to determine whether dose mattered. For these experiments, we controlled for variation in mosquito activity patterns by also testing control vials (vials with warm water only, no human substances) at both the pre- and post-ingestion time points.
Experiment 3. The crossover experiment was completed in two trials. This experimental design provided better control of day-to-day variation in mosquito behavior because the impacts of the ingestion of grapes and of bananas were both tested during the same trial (i.e., the same 2 h time period). The ingestion of bananas was strongly associated with an increase in the number of contacts (F = 4.93(4, 82); P = 0.0013) and the effect was significant at both the 1 h (t = 3.79; df = 86; P = 0.0003) and 2 h (t = 2.34; df = 86; P = 0.0214) time points. The estimates for post-ingestion mosquito contacts compared to pre-ingestion showed an increase of 11 contacts after 1 h and 7 contacts after 2 h. Ingestion of grapes had no effect (Table 1).
Experiment 4. To determine the consistency of the response, repeated trials with a single individual were performed over 15 weeks in 2011 and 2012. Contact counts were similar for the untreated control vials at the starting time and both the 1 and 2 h times (Table 2, Figure 1). However, the average number of contacts on vials that were rubbed at 1 h after banana ingestion was more than twice as high as those measured for the pre-ingestion vials. For two of these trials, this subject ate three bananas but found no evidence that contact counts were higher than those observed following ingestion of one banana.
Analysis of combined dataset. The combined dataset included 493 observations from 75 individual subjects from experiments concluded from 2009 to 2011. The results reveal that 1 h and 2 h after ingestion of bananas, there was an increase of 12.2 and 6.3 mosquito contacts compared to pre-ingestion contacts, respectively. The average pre-ingestion count was 8.0 mosquito contacts. Thus, the increased contacts after banana ingestion represent an increase of 165% at 1 h and 79% increase at 2 h. Conversely, the ingestion of grapes did not result in a significant difference in number of mosquito contacts compared to pre-ingestion levels. Likewise, there was no significant difference between mosquito contacts at any time for individuals who consumed no fruit.
The mechanism underlying the chemical change is also of interest. The data reveal a shift in attractiveness by 1 h post ingestion, which requires a rapidly realized link between digestion and skin secretions. A recent study documented differences in the human plasma metabolome and related these to host attractiveness to Ae. aegypti [28]. Other work has shown changes in the plasma metabolome at 1 h following ingestion of bananas [29]. Thus, we speculate that this could be the connection between digestion and skin odors. How the plasma metabolome affects skin odors is not known. Whether these changes enhance mosquito feeding success or reproductive outcomes is also not known.
I would like to know what is the probability that an insect is hiding inside a banana that I buy at the market? Even if there was just one chance in a million that an insect is hiding inside I would stop eating bananas forever.
I postulate that an insect could lay it's eggs in a banana and then the offsprings would be born inside the banana. Or perhaps an insect tries to eat a small chunk of the banana, it cuts his way out inside the banana, it gets trapped inside, and then someone buys the banana. Both of these ideas are troublesome since I'm not sure if there is air to breathe inside the banana.
However, don't eat that banana just yet! The internet is littered with tales of horror about spiders in fruit. Like this Black Widow in a bunch of grapes. There is no bursting out of the fruit like Alien, but what has happened is the spider has unwittingly found itself being picked from its natural environment and transported with the fruit.
Nematodes, popularly known as roundworms, are of two types: burrowing and spiral. Both types attack the roots, causing great damage. The roots become prone to pathogens once they have been attacked by these nematodes. Ensure you purchase banana plants that have nematode-free roots to control these pests.
Banana weevils are popularly known as banana borers. As this name suggests, they attack the plant by boring through the stem and causing untold damage to the plant tissues. Acute infestations by banana weevils usually lead to weakening of the plant and ultimately its death. Remove plants that have been attacked by banana weevils from the garden to prevent the pests from spreading.
"Banana spiders" are any of several kinds of arachnids, namely the Nephila clavipes of North America and the Phoneutria genus of spiders from South America. These spiders hide in the banana bunches and damage the fruits by sucking their juices. Their bites are also dangerous to human beings.
I recently had a reader say that she was looking for something easier than pecan pie for the upcoming holiday season. My mind instantly jumped to Ina Garten and her pecan squares recipe. But I wanted to give that recipe a bit of a spin, so I added a little bananas foster flavor and created another layered bar cookie.
The dough can sticky; if you need to, lightly flour the dough and your hands to press it into the prepared baking pan. Bake for 10 minutes and allow the crust to cool on a wire rack while you prepare the banana layer and the pecan caramel layer.
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