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.
Mosquitos, flies, roaches. I could do with them all gone.
You probably couldn’t as the ecosystem is linking into each other
I’d take 1 global apocalypse for having all those suckers die. Thank you.
Well, too bad. We’ve got several already.
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 😝
Typical human.
And you’re not?
I sure am. Maybe just not as nonchalant about the whole “meh, so we killed off species” part
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.
Mosquitoes are pollinators…
There are 3,500 different species of mosquito, and like 10 that are responsible for most disease transmissions.
We have enough pollinators
Idk man, unless someone can prove their vitality to the ecosystem I say we kill them and see where the chips fall.