Comment on Malaria

• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Typical human.

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    • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And you’re not?

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I sure am. Maybe just not as nonchalant about the whole “meh, so we killed off species” part

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What about bats?

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    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah I mean that’s kinda my point. Improve the bat population and you improve the mosquito situation.

        BTW I realize what I’m saying sounds trivial and I am not arrogant enough to think I just invented a solution, moreso just asking out of curiosity.

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  • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mosquitoes are pollinators…

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    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We have enough pollinators

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