True, but from what I’ve read, virtually all mosquitoes don’t bite people. You can wipe out the 1% or less of the ones that do without significant environmental impact since the things that eat mosquitoes aren’t choosy about which ones so you really are just reducing their available food by like 1%, and even some of that will probably be backfilled by other species of mosquitoes since the ones that bite people don’t only bite people.
I partly covered this in my response below. If we’re talking about eradicating disease-carrying mosquitoes from populated areas (and or invasive), then sure that makes sense. But studies that say eradication (even of the harmful ones) would have no negative consequence are very much debated by researchers. It’s reddit, but here’s a well cited comment from a researcher who works with mosquitoes that does a better job of explaining why it’s not that simple: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entomology/comments/1icgbrg/comment/m9qxizu/
True, but from what I’ve read, virtually all mosquitoes don’t bite people. You can wipe out the 1% or less of the ones that do without significant environmental impact since the things that eat mosquitoes aren’t choosy about which ones so you really are just reducing their available food by like 1%, and even some of that will probably be backfilled by other species of mosquitoes since the ones that bite people don’t only bite people.
I partly covered this in my response below. If we’re talking about eradicating disease-carrying mosquitoes from populated areas (and or invasive), then sure that makes sense. But studies that say eradication (even of the harmful ones) would have no negative consequence are very much debated by researchers. It’s reddit, but here’s a well cited comment from a researcher who works with mosquitoes that does a better job of explaining why it’s not that simple: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entomology/comments/1icgbrg/comment/m9qxizu/