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.
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.
You probably couldn’t as the ecosystem is linking into each other
I’d take 1 global apocalypse for having all those suckers die. Thank you.
Well, too bad. We’ve got several already.
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.
What about bats?
Also I’ve seen crop treatments with sterile mates be successful. Not sure if I’m using the right words but they essentially airdrop sterile insects.
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.
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.
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 😝
Typical human.
And you’re not?
I sure am. Maybe just not as nonchalant about the whole “meh, so we killed off species” part
Idk man, unless someone can prove their vitality to the ecosystem I say we kill them and see where the chips fall.