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[–] loudWaterEnjoyer 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You probably couldn't as the ecosystem is linking into each other

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd take 1 global apocalypse for having all those suckers die. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Well, too bad. We've got several already.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know man... So many species died out naturally and unnaturally and things moved along. I'd guess wager we can do without them 😝

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I sure am. Maybe just not as nonchalant about the whole "meh, so we killed off species" part

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of the reasons mosquito populations are out of control is that we've killed off a lot of their predators. No mosquito anywhere is a keystone species, and you would only need to wipe out the vector species. Other, less harmful species of mosquito would fill in nicely with less competition.

At least, that's the theory. Previous theories included introducing mosquitofish to eat the larvae, but that backfired because the moquitofish are aggressive and don't eat as many mosquitos as local predators driven off by the mosquitofish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mosquitoes are pollinators...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There are 3,500 different species of mosquito, and like 10 that are responsible for most disease transmissions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We have enough pollinators

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Idk man, unless someone can prove their vitality to the ecosystem I say we kill them and see where the chips fall.