• @robocall@lemmy.world
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    2210 months ago

    I looked it up once - apparently mosquitos are an important food source for birds, bats, frogs, and the larvae is eaten by fish.

    • @flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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      2010 months ago

      This meme is braindead. Mozzies do suck, but everything has it’s place and we’re waaay to stupid to play God with ecosystems and the food chain

      • TheHarpyEagle
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        810 months ago

        What? It worked perfectly with cane toads. And wild boars. And catfish. And mongoose.

      • Wet Noodle
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        810 months ago

        I do agree we doing way to much to ecosystems but mosquitoes are a problem worth trying to fix, in first world countries they barely spread disease but they kill so many people worldwide with disease. We most likely shouldn’t eradicate them for that but something tio mitigate that spread would be amazing.

        • @alp
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          210 months ago

          Yeah that breed that don’t carry virus idea sounds good. As they reproduce they stop transmitting it and eventually the entire species don’t carry it

  • NightDice
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    2010 months ago

    Honestly, if it weren’t for the itch and the (admittedly somewhat low) chance for transmitting diseases, I wouldn’t mind them.

      • NightDice
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        210 months ago

        Wouldn’t mind them either if it weren’t for the aforementioned factors. And since I can hardly differentiate between male and female mosquitoes when I see one, because don’t know what to look for, they all get the extermination treatment once they enter my flat.

  • uphillbothways
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    1010 months ago

    They’re mostly pollinators. Both males and females eat flower nectar. Females need a small amount of blood in addition to that when reproducing.

  • @nal@lib.lgbt
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    910 months ago

    I used to feel this way until I was bitten by a horsefly. I’d rather have 10 mosquito bites than this

    • @idiomaddict@feddit.de
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      210 months ago

      But horseflies are easy to see, trap, and/or swat. Plus, that ratio might be right, 10:1, but I think my actual historical ratio is more like 400:1, and I’d definitely rather one horsefly bite than 400 mosquito bites