A little disappointed that neither the article nor comments have made much of the argument that any species which has made it through billions of years of evolu

A little disappointed that neither the article nor comments have made much of the argument that any species which has made it through billions of years of evolution is intrinsically a thing of value. As for planned extinction, I feel the bar should be set high: we needn't know, right now, what their long-term value must be. Nevertheless, if I try to find some specific value to mosquitoes, it is likely related to the thing that also makes them pernicious. They are evasive, clever, micro-scale hunters some of which have co-evolved with humans for millions of years. Their feeding indicates they might be used for drug delivery, weapons, communications, logistics. Just from one person's point of view, it would be a shame if, ten years after total eradication, Moore's Law delivered a boat-load of potential applications for mosquitoes. And of course if these insects have a say in the matter, we know how they'd likely vote.