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My understanding is that, while many species will happily eat mosquitoes, there's no species where mosquitoes are their primary food source. That doesn't mean
by PhasmaFelis 7y ago
My understanding is that, while many species will happily eat mosquitoes, there's no species where mosquitoes are their primary food source.
That doesn't mean that eliminating mosquitoes would be consequence-free, of course. It could definitely cause problems for the species who lose a part of their diet, and/or the other prey they eat more of to compensate. But they're not a keystone of the ecosystem like, say, bees are.
Also, apparently all of the really dangerous, disease-carrying mosquitoes are invasive.
- godelski 7y agoThe other question is: those predators that (might) actually depend on mosquito, do they depend on the ones were talking about eradicating (which is only a small subset)?
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoAlso true. I'm not sure.