Since humans are the most advanced species in the history of Earth would we be justified in completely exterminating Mosquitos?
Since humans are the most advanced species in the history of Earth would we be justified in completely exterminating...
Liam Taylor
Cameron Powell
No. But we should do it anyway because mosquitoes kill the most humans out of all animals.
Jason Nelson
>Since humans are the most advanced species in the history of Earth
not true
>justified in completely exterminating Mosquitos
This has nothing to do with justification and everything to do with what the effects on the environment would be.
Robert Reed
>not true
How?
>This has nothing to do with justification and everything to do with what the effects on the environment would be.
Mosquitoes don't have much of an effect on the environment except for killing humans.
Carson Carter
No that's stupid, mosquitos could be really useful since they're able to spread things to large populations of people, we should figure out ways to use them like to distribute vaccines in epidemic regions, or sterilants in regions where overpopulation is a problem.
Christian Bennett
>since they're able to spread things to large populations of people
yeah, like deadly diseases
Elijah Cruz
What makes us the most advanced species in the history of the Earth? We have only have one hole for both eating and breathing, which kills a lot of people. We can't fly.
>Mosquitoes don't have much of an effect on the environment except for killing humans.
Yeah but think about how big this impact is. They have a major effect on microbial communities in this way because of all the organisms and parasites they carry. They spread them through different vertebrates and some of them are parasites and those need a way of spreading. They're more of a generalist food item but are still a food item for many insect eating animals. They feed on nectar so they can be considered incidental pollinators (kind of a stretch desu). The aquatic larvae filter feed, having impacts on aquatic ecosystems.
Dylan Williams
Check out Utopia by Channel 4 UK. First episode of season 2 mentions this.
Ian Price
>Mosquitoes don't have much of an effect on the environment except for killing humans.
Uhh... pollination is huge (the males are vegetarian), forage food as but larvae and adults for other fauna (fish, birds, bats, other insects...)
Aaron Baker
>not true
speak for yourself ploob