Meh, the global ecosystem is fucked anyway. Might as well trim out the especially annoying bits and enjoy some relative comfort on our way to extinction. If doing so accelerates our downfall a bit, that’s a fair trade.
I say it’s worth the risk.
This, we can’t have only the bad parts of mass extinction
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Just a guess… they’re probably a food source low in the chain. Disrupt the food chain and we’re screwed.
https://www.britannica.com/story/what-purposes-do-mosquitoes-serve-in-ecosystems
Well there’s like 30 species and only 4 that hurt humans, so mosquitoes can stay, but those specific 4 can die off.
Even better, there’s thousands of mosquito species, and only 4 that bit humans
Those 4 can fuck right off into extinction
Exactly.
There’s one specific species that causes malaria. Getting rid of that particular one would probably do more good than harm. Their place on the food chain can be filled in by others.
But if they fill in the place in the food chain, that also means they need to be snacking on us.
And I’m not just saying that to be a smart-ass. If humans were a different species, we’d call them horrendously invasive, awful for local ecosystems and that it’s really important that their numbers are kept in check, or whatever other euphemisms there are.
No, I don’t want to suggest that we should leave humans to die, but we should be aware that it’s not as simple as just saving a few lives. We will run into different problems sooner rather than later.
Mosquitos aren’t some special niche. Take out mosquitos and something else moves in to replace them, something that doesn’t bite.
There’s nothing that solely depends on mosquitos, and wouldn’t prefer to eat other things which mosquitos may be suppressing by existing themselves.
It’s impressive that almost every single sentence that you wrote is incorrect.
Their eggs are a rich snack for fish. The reason they’re a rich snack is because their mom sucked blood.
That said, we can probably kill off the one species that causes malaria. Other species will move into the gap.
“But bitey”
If we could we’d try to kill algae and plankton for turning the oceans green and ruining our pictures. We’re not a smart group, us.
Kid named Malaria:
Funny how much (actual scientific) debate is around mosquito extinction event whilst we are well into a mass extinction event we caused (not to mention all the direct and systemic ecosystem eradication such as marshlands of all sorts).
Exactly. If we’re going to kill everything else, why not them?
Because then we will have a few years of being able to sit outside in peace before going outside and melting.
And we as a species are such bastards that we would want them to melt, so it’s all going according to plan.
Just wait for the temperature to melt the mosquitos 👌
If you haven’t seen Puss in Boots 2, do yourself a big favor and go see it.
It’s a great movie, it brought me to tears, I highly recommend it.
I’m also just a sucker for Death depictions
PLEASE do cockroaches next. I refuse to believe those monstrosities are capable of good, even tangentially.
I saw three in the past hour. Two while I was in the shower, and one in the kitchen. I will do anything to have these fuckers extinct
You watch naked cock roaches showering?
As if human care about future consequences.
The mosquito we see around us are invasive species that we humans brought along as we migrate across the continent. Make sense if their extinction bring neglectable impact to the local ecosystem. They aren’t supposed to be there to begin with.
There is a species of mosquito that is a prolific pollinator, one of them for blueberries.
Humans have already caused so many species to go extinct.
Doing it on purpose for self defense seems less bad to me than indiscriminately because we want to be more comfortable but maybe that’s a meaningless distinction.
I thought they just didn’t breed in my habitat last time I moved— turns out they can breed here but they’re quite tightly managed.
Socal?
Nor-cal but close
Mosquitos are pollinators. And in some parts of the world that have extreme seasons that can’t sustain bees, they seem rather important to the ecosystem.
Instead of eradicating them, genetically engineering away the numbing in their saliva that causes the allergic reaction in humans could be a solution.
I’ll trade a couple weeks of itchy bites for a briefly painful bite any day.
Sure, humans would kill them instantly on feeling the bite, but most animals are not capable of that. Their populations would be fine.
You think people want to extinguish mosquitoes because they bite is annoying?!
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Mosquitos kill more humans than any other thing on this planet. Including humans killing humans.
Aww does the wittle baby not want to die of mawaria?
uwu siwwy widdle babies
I want both of you to burn on a pile of burning tires, then I want a furry to nail me to a cross with the other profligates cause I had no problem translating and understanding what you two said.
While your comment is correct, the original goalpost set two comments ago was solely about itchy bites. The person you replied to was replying to that, so
Yeah but they were ignoring the actual reason humans want mosquitos gone.
It’s not just because the bites are annoying it’s because they kill more people than literally any other thing on the planet.
Yes I know that, and that’s what every other comment is about too. This one more as well
What about house flies? Can we kill those too?
Mosquitos feed on apex predators and feed the nearly bottom of the food chain. Imo they’re up there with salmon in terms of nutrient transfer, absolutely would cause chaos at all levels if they were eliminated.
Uninformed take. First of, we are working on killing off only a few, malaria carrying Mosquito species in certain regions. Whatever niche they leave will be filled by another, possibly native species of Mosquito.
2nd, nutrient transfer my butt, they carry like 1ml and that’s mostly water. You definitely transfer more nutrients by having some ants in your compost bin.
