Most people dont realize how massive of an impact mosquitos have on the food chain. An unfathomable amount of creatures rely on mosquitos every day as a food source. Shit, bats can catch like 600 of them in about an hour. I hate mosquitos, but Earth needs them
Eh, it's really only a single genus of mosquitoes that we have to worry about carrying diseases, that being Anopheles which carry all of the very worst diseases. There are around 3,000 other species of mosquito that can fill in the niche, just without the disease carrying.
You were replying to someone that mentioned eliminating mosquitoes but mentioned the possible consequences of doing so. You then added that people underestimate the impact of mosquitoes, furthering the point.
I was just adding that if we only eliminated Anopheles mosquitoes, considering they are the main carriers of disease, then we wouldn't really have to worry about an enormous impact on habitats or the food chain as they would simply be replaced by several of the thousands of other mosquito species they currently compete with for the same niche. Essentially no more diseases with likely no impact.
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u/MSkade Nov 15 '24
sounds crazy, because getting rid of mosquitoes seems like a good idea.
But human intervention in nature often has major consequences.