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Mosquitoes Are Deadly, So Why Not Kill Them All?
- bfuller 10y agoIs this an all or nothing solution? If you could control the population in highly dense areas but leave the rest of the world alone, would it not mitigate some of the risks involved in messing with the ecosystem?
- WheelsAtLarge 10y agoCompletely agree. The way I understand it there are no extras in nature. Ecosystems evolved with all the organisms helping to balance the whole. Getting rid of one will put the system out of balance. Yes, they are dangerous to us but by getting rid of all of them it will effect a whole branch of nature. We are part of that system and ultimately we'll be sorry we got rid of them.
- x1798DE 10y ago> The way I understand it there are no extras in nature. There are no "extras" in the sense if you want nothing at all to change, you need to keep everything, but I don't think ecological niches go unfilled for long. The world would be pretty fragile if the loss of any single species completely destroyed an ecosystem.