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but mosquitoes though

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They have actually exhaustively studied this, and they offer zero benefit, they aren’t even a good food source for any known animal.

The risks associated with mosquito eradication are extremely low.

That’s like the only bug that’s like that. The rest are crazy important to their ecosystems.

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Don’t bats eat mosquitos?

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Ticks can eat shit and die too

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Sounds like massive human bias at play. Any source?

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This is just plain false. Them and their eggs are an important food source for all kinds of aquatic animals and birds. Also, their larva remove contamins for water.

Even logically this doesn’t make sense. What’s more likely: every insect is extremely important except one, or humans are wrong (as we so often are) about one species of insect?

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The specific mosquito species that carries malaria isn’t all that important. Other mosquitos will occupy it’s niches. That’s the mosquito people want to eradicate

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sources?

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Bed bugs?

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Huge food source for cockroaches, which are in turn a huge food source for birds and small mammals.

They live fucking everywhere too, including in caves and drainage systems.

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There are fish which are eating the larvae and also adult mosquitos.

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They don’t feed exclusively on mosquito larvae/eggs. They can easily switch to another source.

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