One of the reasons mosquito populations are out of control is that we’ve killed off a lot of their predators. No mosquito anywhere is a keystone species, and you would only need to wipe out the vector species. Other, less harmful species of mosquito would fill in nicely with less competition.
At least, that’s the theory. Previous theories included introducing mosquitofish to eat the larvae, but that backfired because the moquitofish are aggressive and don’t eat as many mosquitos as local predators driven off by the mosquitofish.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Mosquitos, flies, roaches. I could do with them all gone.
loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
You probably couldn’t as the ecosystem is linking into each other
lowleveldata@programming.dev 2 years ago
I’d take 1 global apocalypse for having all those suckers die. Thank you.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Well, too bad. We’ve got several already.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I don’t know man… So many species died out naturally and unnaturally and things moved along. I’d guess wager we can do without them 😝
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Typical human.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 years ago
One of the reasons mosquito populations are out of control is that we’ve killed off a lot of their predators. No mosquito anywhere is a keystone species, and you would only need to wipe out the vector species. Other, less harmful species of mosquito would fill in nicely with less competition.
At least, that’s the theory. Previous theories included introducing mosquitofish to eat the larvae, but that backfired because the moquitofish are aggressive and don’t eat as many mosquitos as local predators driven off by the mosquitofish.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 years ago
What about bats?
Gabu@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Mosquitoes are pollinators…