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how did you not grow up with an instinctual hatred of mosquitos? i know what it would do to ecology and shit and i would still wipe every last one off the planet
I'll deal with mosquitoes if we can wipe out bedbugs. I can smell those fuckers.
see i don't get why people get mad at other people when we got a full on bug genocide we got to perpetrate
So, a lot of people say this because it makes a lot of logical sense, I thought the same, but if you actually ask people who are qualified, a lot of them are fairly sure that other insects/etc would likely fill the niche. Obviously still theory, but mosquitoes are usually not a cornerstone and likely mostly replacable.
And it's only a single species of mosquito that's response
I haven't dug too deep into the results, but there have been eradication campaigns using things like genetically modified mosquitos that would produce sterile offspring.