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Mosquitoes have killed more humans than every disease ever (edit: when you obviously exclude malaria) along with every war ever, combined.

Fuck those little shits. Let them all die, it will literally change nothing on this planet because nothing solely survives off predation on mosquitoes or their larvae.

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But what will happen when the humans lose their natural predators, we might destroy our habita- ah, right. Nevermind

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Mosquitos are just trying to save the planet by murdering as many humans as possible

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Here’s a Venn diagram:

O Humans getting killed by mosquitos

O Humans at fault for habitat destruction

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Yep. I was trying to be funny but the reality is brutally bad.

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If those creatures that also eat mosquitoes cannot eat them anymore, that means they would have to eat other bugs more frequently, and possibly fucking up all the ecosystem.

That said, fuck mosquitoes, they can take blood from other places.

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All of our best data on the impact says that it really wouldn’t matter. Sometimes a species is a linchpin for the ecosystem, and sometimes it isn’t.

Sucks for mosquitoes, but there’s a very real chance that we’ll smallpox them, and the biggest concern will be our confidence that the virus we use doesn’t impact other species unintentionally.

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Hopefully we can do the same for bedbugs. Fuck bedbugs. I can smell the little fuckers

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Haven’t read closely on it, but I’ve seen plenty of articles about the lack of effect we’d see over killing off mosquitoes. I have a feeling that, along with what you said, it’s because they’re tiny.

Consider the dragonfly. They hunt mosquitoes efficiently. But relative to their size, a mosquito is like us eating a candy bar, or even less. Meanwhile, they could snatch about anything else and it would be like a 3-pound steak.

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They’re largely applying this technique to invasive species of mosquitoes, eg Aedes aegypti, which is a potent vector of disease and native of Africa that has spread worldwide only within the past 200 years

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They also eat nectar and are pollinators of various plants.

There’s no way we could simply remove a creature as numerous and widespread as mosquitoes without any consequences.

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If we were to somehow magically remove mosquitos from existence in an instant, we’d better hope something fills their ecological niche quickly

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Nothing eats them exclusively, that I know of. And they’re tiny. Any insectivore is getting far more nutrition out of about anything else.

Maybe I’m wrong, but biologists seem to think eradication is a non-issue.

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I think the purpose of the original genetic modification is to make them unable to bite humans (and spread malaria) but to otherwise leave them capable of feeding, thus not wiping them out and upsetting the ecosystem they’re part of

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That niche being flying bloodsucker? I’m not sure the alternative will be any better

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Found the mosquito.

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I understand what you’re saying here, but the set of people killed by “every disease ever” includes the entire set of people killed by mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquitoes can’t have killed more people than every disease ever because mosquitoes’ kill count is part of every disease ever.

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Edit: when excluding malaria.

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Mosquitoes have killed more humans than every disease ever

How do they kill us outside of spreading disease?

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They manipulate the weather using space lasers from their fake hollow moon above our flat earth.

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Jew mosquitos or mosquito Jews?

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By distracting drivers into causing accidents? Statistically speaking… probably.

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I know it’s not that deep but if you type a whole ass paragraph in all caps I want to beat you with a shoe.

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👏 THANK 👏 YOU 👏

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👟

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what about all lowercase? is that fine to you? do you just want to easily ignore me? am i small potatoes to you?

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nah, ricky, you’re no potatoes at all. 🔫

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Your words may be small, but your place in my life isn’t. i feel you, dog.

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I KNOW. It’s like PICK your BATTLES people

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I would not want to see things like this done to the overwhelming majority of living things. But mosquitoes, I say let them starve.

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  • ticks, too
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Most dangerous animal in our forests

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Isn’t the blood only needed for procreation?

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Yes. Some (not all species) female mosquitoes drink blood for the protein, which they need for egg production. Their actual diet is nectar from flowers.

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This is a crime against nature and god and decency, and mosquitos are probably the only place I’d be absolutely, completely for it.

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There are probably a few handfuls of other parasites that would count too.

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Yeah, do ticks next!

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Then, landlords!

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Fuck bedbugs!

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Animal farming is a crime against nature, god and decency and we’re completely for that too, don’t forget

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Up next on Info Wars: “They’re turning the mosquitoes gay!”

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Sounds more like they are turning them trans than gay. So like a test run of the leftist plan for Republicans. Oh wait, are we allowed to talk about this outside of the secret meetings yet?

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Ha ha! He’s just joking 😁 !

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Which is actually what happened to the frogs

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I think you’re asking for a kind of nuance that most Info Warriors are unable to provide.

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The gay frogs were more trans than gay too, so the impersonation is spot on.

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