My go is for the Buzzard, it would sure as hell make desert trips and heat waves seem a lot less worrying and paranoiac.

  • Foreigner@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    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/