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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loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months agoYou probably couldn’t as the ecosystem is linking into each other
madcaesar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Typical human.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And you’re not?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I sure am. Maybe just not as nonchalant about the whole “meh, so we killed off species” part
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 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.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
What about bats?
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 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.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 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.
Gabu@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mosquitoes are pollinators…
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There are 3,500 different species of mosquito, and like 10 that are responsible for most disease transmissions.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We have enough pollinators
lowleveldata@programming.dev 10 months ago
I’d take 1 global apocalypse for having all those suckers die. Thank you.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, too bad. We’ve got several already.