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.
I gotcha, I thought you were saying that bats would suffer if the mosquitoes were eliminated.
Yes, anything we do to improve bat populations would be good for a variety of reasons. But I doubt that any one bat species would make a dent in the specific mosquitoes that act as vectors for disease. Plus, if you start introducing bat species to non-native habitats, you run the risk of repeating the mosquitofish catastrophe.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 6 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 6 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.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I gotcha, I thought you were saying that bats would suffer if the mosquitoes were eliminated.
Yes, anything we do to improve bat populations would be good for a variety of reasons. But I doubt that any one bat species would make a dent in the specific mosquitoes that act as vectors for disease. Plus, if you start introducing bat species to non-native habitats, you run the risk of repeating the mosquitofish catastrophe.