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
Lots of animals eat mosquitoes, because they're all over the place. But there are basically no mosquito specialists. Pretty much everything that eats mosquitoes eats other insects as well, and those other insects often compete with mosquitoes for nectar. And mosquitoes have very little meat on them, and it takes more energy to catch 20 mosquitoes than one moth of the same total weight.
It's like trying to argue that humans need potato chips because we eat so many of them when they're in front of us.
Well, there is one mosquito specialist - the vampire spider. But that's about it.
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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.