Who will win?

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You always read about how many billions of people mosquitoes have killed, but you never read about how many mosquitoes people have killed!

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• terminhell@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s scary to think, if all insects united and turned on us in any kind of organized capacity we’re doomed. Just by sheer numbers.

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• HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a toss up.

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• untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  we could probably drive mosquitoes to extinction if we were motivated enough

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  • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And we would soon follow.

    There’s a difference between “okay, Aedes and Anopheles do not belong here and can be exterminated from this local environment because we inadvertently introduced them here” versus “let’s just exterminate all mosquitos, you know, some of the most important biomass that feeds uncountable species in a deeply interconnected network of ecological interactions that directly affects us”

    It’s a significantly better idea to come up with solutions to the actual diseases.

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Killing Anopheles is easy and smart, because no more malaria, and there are many other options to fill the niche.

      Killing Anopheles while not also wiping out all those other insects is really really really hard

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  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Interesting ethical dilemma: everyone loses someone they love to a mosquito borne illness, thus motivating the human race to quickly eliminate them, ultimately saving more people than if we didn’t all lose a loved one at once.

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