You are forgetting that mosquitos are literaly the animal to cause the most deaths in humans. This isn’t anything like sharks.
I do agree that any effort put to reducing their impact would be extremely costly
Now I think we all could agree that internal parasites don’t have any values backing them up
I was just reading about the genus Toxorhynchites, and wow, some mosquitoes are useful and look beautiful. Like Toxorhynchites (Toxorhynchites) splendens. Why does this have a possible trinomial name?
This is a non-blood-eating species which could be used to fill in some gaps left behind by the hemophagous kinds if we ever manage to eliminate them.
The main cause is actually terrible medical institutions. Malaria is treatable, you can literally fix an outbreak, but the funding isn’t there for third-world (/developing/underdeveloped, if there’s anything I dislike about being a leftist, it’s the annoyingly specific words for things) countries. This is reason #11353 why all billionaires are monsters. Imagine is there were billions in funding to fix this and also TB and a few other preventable diseases killing loads of people. Yes, a lot of billionaires do spend their money on this, but, without getting in the (true) conspiracy theory that they only donate just enough to never pay taxes, very few stop being billionaires by doing this. The few examples of billionaires donating enough to stop being billionaires (towards anything) often fall into the J. K. Rowling trap, (Not to be confused with the J. K Rowling Trap, which I just made up but it’s a great pun) of immediately thereafter making it really hard to get reliable information on your net worth right after. Who knows how much she’s worth, probably more than one billion, but no one knows with enough confidence that we remember that she’s a billionaire again, just that once she stopped being one. Great trick and all, but really someone should have noticed and made a huge fuss about it, maybe would’ve reigned her in before the transphobia stuff or softened the blow.
On the topic of mosquitos though, only female mosquito’s drink blood. Invent a way for male mosquitos to reproduce asexually and you’re good to leave the ecosystem alone. By the time something evolves to drink blood and diseases take advantage, it’s been a few million years, I assume space people who rule half of orion’s arm can handle some belgiuming bugs
You know what perhaps we should end this discussion before it gets even more political. We don’t want to make the big blue eye angry.
I have been exposed to Thrive for too long, now I’m having sympathies towards all living organisms so I can’t say I’m into eradicating entire species or subspecies
Even internal parasites like tapeworms?
Yes I’m crazy
(limit)
What do they give you back for you to appreciate them?
i remember reading some time ago about an research that was trying to do something similar to what this discussion was suggesting, they made genetically modified male mosquitoes that acasalated with female ones, the female larvaes dies, but having the male ones surviving, therefore making the population of mosquitoes to decrease. Well, and we have all rights to exterminate them, because theses mosquitoes are an invader species from Africa, so no ecossystem impact!
But it worked?
No. People stole the boxes where the male larvae stayed. And we got an vaccine for one of the four diseases that it transmits, soooooo yeah.
What would they get from bug larvae?
If any, what is the one species to deserve to be extinct’d the most?
Depends, if we’re giving score depending on how much, for example, planet has been polluted, then humans hehe
Maybe the only way to fix human problems is to end humanity itself…
-Said the advanced artificial intelligence computer right before it started a world war
Looks like we came the full circle.
This one effing cyanobacterium that filled the whole planet with this useless, corrosive chemical is great qualities, this was a while back if you don’t remember. Should’ve stopped that when we had the chance.
Yeah that dioxygen gas is nasty stuff, it’s one step removed from chlorine and corrodes through most metals, I heard if you submerge materials in it they can undergoe a really dangerous exothermic reaction, doesn’t stop going ‘til the things all a bunch of useless oxide compounds.
Are you challenging Oxygen the Compound??? You know very clear that without it humans couldn’t exist 
. While I’m feeling bad for those who couldn’t adapt to it (RIP surfaced prokaryotes), I can’t disagree that it gave life to more powerful metabolism processes such as breathing
