• TheHarpyEagle@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    7 months ago

    Unfortunately, mosquitoes are also pretty important pollinators (they only consume blood when laying eggs), and goodness knows we can’t really afford to lose more of those.

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      7 months ago

      I see 2 possible solutions on this point. 1, most people primarily spray insecticide to control mosquitos which harms bees as a side effect. If we got rid of mosquitoes altogether, spraying would drop significantly and the bees might return

      2, there’s something like 3-6 thousand different mosquito sub species and only a handful suck blood and even fewer of that target humans. We could do away with those few species and replace them with some other sub-species that are either close enough naturally or through further genetic alterations.