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The tiger mosquito your parent mentions, though, is invasive. Ecologists are usually more than happy to target invasive species.
by gascan 8y ago
The tiger mosquito your parent mentions, though, is invasive. Ecologists are usually more than happy to target invasive species.
- GW150914 8y agoTrue, but in the context of a pilot program to target native species elsewhere. In short it wouldn’t meet that criteria, because the Asian Tiger mosquito is a recent invader. In the narrow case of targeting recent (decades rather than centuries, and then ATM qualifies as the former) invaders alone, I agree that few rational people would object.
- MaxBarraclough 8y ago> in the context of a pilot program to target native species elsewhere Isn't this just defining the scope artificially narrowly to deny that it would be a useful experiment? Is there an ecologically significant difference in targeting an invasive species?