Comment on Malaria

• loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You probably couldn’t as the ecosystem is linking into each other

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  • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d take 1 global apocalypse for having all those suckers die. Thank you.

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    • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, too bad. We’ve got several already.

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  • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 😝

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Typical human.

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      • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And you’re not?

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What about bats?

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      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Bats eat tbem, but they won’t go extinct without mosquitos as food. There also aren’t enough bats currently to keep the mosquito populations under control due to other factors preventing abat population boom.

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    • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mosquitoes are pollinators…

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      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There are 3,500 different species of mosquito, and like 10 that are responsible for most disease transmissions.

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      • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        We have enough pollinators

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