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And we would soon follow.

There’s a difference between “okay, Aedes and Anopheles do not belong here and can be exterminated from this local environment because we inadvertently introduced them here” versus “let’s just exterminate all mosquitos, you know, some of the most important biomass that feeds uncountable species in a deeply interconnected network of ecological interactions that directly affects us”

It’s a significantly better idea to come up with solutions to the actual diseases.

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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Killing Anopheles is easy and smart, because no more malaria, and there are many other options to fill the niche.

Killing Anopheles while not also wiping out all those other insects is really really really hard

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- teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  what will happen to the bats and small birds once mosquitoes are gone?
  
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  - Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    There are some 30 species of mosquitos that can transmit Malaria. There are about 3470 species of mosquitoes that don’t.
    
    So, if you get rid of those 30, some of the other will probably be a decent food source.
    
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    teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    aren’t those 30 species also the only 30 species that live in a certain area?
    
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