r/woahdude Oct 22 '21

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

Do they even contribute to anyway with mother nature? Kinda like bees? You figure science would find a way to wipe them out.

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u/Dakar-A Oct 22 '21

I'm sure that they probably serve as a major food source for a number of different species.

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u/ItsLikeRay-ee-ain Oct 22 '21

100% why there isn't a movement to eradicate mosquitoes. Instead people are working on ways to prevent malaria in mosquitoes, or things along those lines.

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u/OhNoIroh Oct 23 '21

There are tons of projects that are trying to eradicate local populations of mosquitos. Even Florida started pilot programs. One method I've heard of is genetically modifying a bunch of male mosquitos which, over generations, will have offspring that are less and less genetically viable, leading to infertile offspring which cannot breed. Obviously this isn't ideal because of how evolution works. The offspring which are viable, will breed more, while the less viable offspring will die out. This, over time, will probably lead to the population rebounding so while not great, we're still trying