• Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    i know what it would do to ecology and shit and i would still wipe every last one off the planet

    So, a lot of people say this because it makes a lot of logical sense, I thought the same, but if you actually ask people who are qualified, a lot of them are fairly sure that other insects/etc would likely fill the niche. Obviously still theory, but mosquitoes are usually not a cornerstone and likely mostly replacable.

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      5 hours ago

      And it’s only a single species of mosquito that’s response

      I haven’t dug too deep into the results, but there have been eradication campaigns using things like genetically modified mosquitos that would produce sterile offspring.