I mean that certainly sounds unequivocally true. But "collapse" is not what I'm saying. If you were to remove mosquitos in a localized region and observe the e

I mean that certainly sounds unequivocally true. But "collapse" is not what I'm saying. If you were to remove mosquitos in a localized region and observe the effects on the region's ecology, you could witness the problems, reintroduce the bugs, and revitalize the region (probably it'd recover anyway). Mosquitos are fairly localized. Their range upperbound is 7 miles. Some just fly 300 feet and breed around your house. There are plenty of ecological phenomena that are managed in "a few miles" ranges, like fish populations, forests, etc. I haven't heard a compelling reason in any of these threads to believe that it's actually dangerous to remove them from a few sq mile area. There's no reason to be absolutist about problems we can manage, just based on unobserved worst case solutions with no risk profile attached.