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name a reason why mosquitoes shouldnt be made extinct
no muh feels

>> No.7743161

>>7743142
we don't have the means to make them extinct

>> No.7743169

huge food source for other animals..

>> No.7743170

>>7743169
This. We would probably lill dozens of other vital species. Dont fish eat their eggs?

>> No.7743172

>>7743161
theres the sterile insect technique, although it would not work well in its current state
what im saying is we should put more resources in getting rid of these insects for ever

>> No.7743174

>>7743169
>>7743170
they can eat something else

>> No.7743175

Animals will feed on other food source anyway.

>> No.7743179

>>7743142
they are an endangered species

>> No.7743180

>>7743142
You ask this as if there is a large number of people who think otherwise.

The reason why mosquitoes are not extinct is a different question.

>> No.7743195

>>7743142
I like mosquitoes they never bite me and they keep all the spiders in my house fed

>> No.7743200

>>7743195
they point of spiders is to kill insects

thats like setting buildings on fire so the firefighters have something to do

>> No.7743217

>>7743174
Bravo, fool-proof scientific theorem.

>> No.7743225

>>7743217
the other guy stated those animals need the mosquitoes as a source of food
he didnt prove it
I stated that their diet is not mosquito specific
prove me wrong

faggot

>> No.7743226

>>7743161
>we don't have the means
What do you mean by "we", Peasant?
Lrn2entomopathogenic-fungus

>> No.7743230

>>7743225
Burden of proof is on you you said they could eat something else. Baby fish might not be able to in lakes howbabout that?

>> No.7743237

>>7743230
burden of proof is on you, lakes are full of many types of insects, you seem to be implying mosquitoes specifically are key to their diet, source?

>> No.7743242

>They pollinate many plants
>They are food for many living things
>They keep human and animal populations under control

>> No.7743243
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7743243

>distrupting an ecosystem with little to no reason to do so.

Mosquitoes are natures living vaccines, maybe no for us but good luck with those chickens after spring. We have animals around us at all times with a myriad of diseases. Plagues come and go, the side effect of this utopia by bubble-boying our entire society will only end in our own extinction.

Go ask those Native Americans and their buffalo herds, oh wait.

>> No.7743246

>>7743242
>>They pollinate many plants
Same as literally every other pollinator
>>They are food for many living things
Same as literally every other insect
>>They keep human and animal populations under control
Get off my planet

>> No.7743264

What incredible use was the Asian Tiger Mosquito in North America BEFORE it was introduced verse now?

>> No.7743583

>>7743142
No spread of Malaria = population boom in west Africa = world collapse

>>7743200
Wrong, the point of spiders is to be bros with humans. Never understood spider hate, they're objectively the best and coolest invertebrates.

>> No.7743610

>>7743142

Apply this to other species.

E.g., pandas. Fuck pandas.

>> No.7743618

>>7743200
>they point of spiders is to kill insects
>implying spiders have a point

All part of God's plan, Anon?

>> No.7743621

>>7743225
>I stated that their diet is not mosquito specific
>prove me wrong

Brilliant logic.
Let's just start pulling parts at random out of the big machine that is our environment, and see where that gets us.

>> No.7743625

>>7743174
that's totally how the food chain works.

>> No.7743648

>>7743618
If u disagre ur a fedora nerd xD.

>> No.7743696

>>7743170
>>7743625
>>7743230
Not the other guy, but I'm surprised you people don't know that the scientific consensus is that they are in fact not essential in any way
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
>Scientists acknowledge that the ecological scar left by a missing mosquito would heal quickly as the niche was filled by other organisms. Life would continue as before — or even better.
>A world without mosquitoes would be “more secure for us”, says medical entomologist Carlos Brisola Marcondes from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. “The elimination of Anopheles would be very significant for mankind.”
Please educate yourselves

>> No.7743697

>>7743142

name a reason why humans shouldn't be made extinct
no muh feels

>> No.7743716

>>7743696

>Mosquitos should be eradicated
>Just ask these scienticians whose job it is to eradicate them

>> No.7744219

They are the primary food source for a massive amount of animals. Simply taking them out will be disastrous.

>> No.7744228

>>7743142

you think you know better than God?

see the law of unintended consequences, among others

>> No.7744236

>>7744228
>you think you know better than God?
well, yes, I consider myself better than some bronze age fiction character
>unintended consequences
meh, getting rid of mosquitoes is worth any "ecological disaster" that could happen, what? population of frogs or something drops?
over 99% of all species that have existed are already extinct

>> No.7744432

>>7743625
I laughed way too hard at this reaction

>> No.7744445

GASS THE CULICIDAE

SPECIES WAR NOW

>> No.7744455

Mosquitos are one of the better natural predators of black people.
The best natural predator being other black people, but mosquitos still important.

>> No.7744460

instead of "mosquitoes", how about the three or so species that fuck people up

>> No.7744531

we need them
anything that kills lots of people is a good thing right now the earth is overpopulated as fuck and everyone wants an iphone

>> No.7744539

>>7744236

lrn2metaphor

Newton, Leibniz, and Oersted were all religious

Einstein believed in God too, just independent of religion ("Spinoza's God")

>meh, getting rid of mosquitoes is worth any "ecological disaster" that could happen, what?

that's the thing; you don't know. they exist because they were determined, according to the laws of nature and successful evolutionary selection

>> No.7744550

>>7744455
kek
underr8ed post

>> No.7744566

>>7744539
>that's the thing; you don't know
coward, humanity has survived the extinction of stuff that we ourselves ate, there is no possible scenario in which the demise of parasitic insects is a net harm for us
>they exist because they were determined
they exist because they filled that niche
>according to the laws of nature and successful evolutionary selection
we are also part of nature, when we kill something to extinction its part of nature

>> No.7745464
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7745464

>name a reason why mosquitoes shouldnt be made extinct

Is there anything that requires ticks as a food source? Is there one fucking thing these fuckers do to help the ecosystem?

>> No.7745486

>>7743243
This is probably true.

>> No.7745516

>>7743200
>>7743618
>not liking spiders
>the current year
>I shiggy diggy

>> No.7745530

>>7743697
They will. Just wait for the next war.

>> No.7745538

>>7745464
hmm, they have to get off the animal at some point to infest others, during that time theyre exposed to predators

>> No.7745556

kill you're self OP

>>7743243
/thread

>> No.7745569

>>7745538
Yeah, I'm sure some birds eat them. But it's not like any birds would suffer if ticks magically vanished from the earth over night. They really serve no purpose.

>> No.7745577

>>7743583
>No spread of Malaria = population boom in west Africa = world collapse
that's a good point

>> No.7745588

>>7743225
>moving the goalpost
Argument dropped

>> No.7745986

>>7743172
why? they won't kill off much of the worlds population. and give it a couple of million years and they might fill in evolutionary gaps.

>> No.7746373

they are the animal that most kill humans
they are controling our population

>> No.7746383

>>7743583
>>7745577
>>7746373

The birth rate is high because of infectious diseases and infant mortality.

Access to contraceptives and education are also massive determinants of birthrate.

>lrn to demography

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition

>> No.7746389

>>7746383
African birthrates are astronomical in Western Europe.

>> No.7746397

>>7746389
Read the demographic transition model link. Generally, birth rates decline after mortality rates drop. That being said, there are cultural drivers of reproductive tendencies as well (religion, mores, etc.) However, once people move to large cities, birth rates fall due to economic pressures and professional obligations of time.

The claim that infectious disease is a necessary pressure that culls population growth is only made by idiots in the global north who 1) have never had a life threatening infection and 2) have no understanding of health economics.

>> No.7746642

>>7743142

They bring death... lots of deaths... without them there would be a rapid increase in population of animals... they weaken and sicken the young... they are essential in population control... they bring much needed plagues, they spread diseases... destroy them and the ecosystem will be weakened.

>> No.7746643

>>7746642
nurgle pls, youre not fooling anyone

>> No.7747199

With new techniques being developed such as the gene drive, we may be able to engineer mosquitos to not carry various diseases.

>> No.7747840

Name a reason why mosquitoes shouldn't be made into a bomb

Oh wait

http://www.highlandstoday.com/hi/local-news/what-happened-in-the-1950s-at-avon-park-air-force-range-20140406/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States

>During the 1950s the United States conducted a series of field tests using entomological weapons. Operation Big Itch, in 1954, was designed to test munitions loaded with uninfected fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis). In May 1955 over 300,000 uninfected mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) were dropped over parts of the U.S. state of Georgia to determine if the air-dropped mosquitoes could survive to take meals from humans. The mosquito tests were known as Operation Big Buzz. The U.S. engaged in at least two other EW testing programs, Operation Drop Kick and Operation May Day

>> No.7748206

>>7743174
Top kek

>> No.7749089

>>7743169
There is a study done on the effects of eradicating mosquitoes and it was found that the effect on ecosystems would be small. Of course, historically people have been terrible at predicting the effects of removing something from an ecosystem. It should be said that I am in the "eradicate them all" camp; I don't care about the consequences, just kill them pls.

>> No.7749714
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7749714

>living somewhere without a long winter
Plebs.

>> No.7749729

>>7749714
I live in the southern hemisphere, mosquitoes are only an annoyance during summer, which is now.

>> No.7749836

>>7749714
Pretty much this.

>not living where it never stays warm enough long enough for mosquitos to be a nuissance

based denmark

>> No.7749845

>>7743246
Most pollinator/plant relationships have evolved to be very specific for individual species. Killing off a pollinator or type of plant can kill the species on the other end of this relationship.

'Insects' aren't just one category of edibles either. Anteaters aren't just going to up and try eating bees, or dragonflys, or caterpillars you stupid fuck. Things rely on eating mosquitoes, these things in turn are relied on my other species.

Get your pleb thought process out of my environment. I'd remove dysfunctional retards before I remove mosquitoes.

>> No.7749904

>>7749845
>Things rely on eating mosquitoes
[citation needed]

>> No.7751277
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7751277

>>7749714
I live in Lapland and during the short summers it is impossible to go outside and stay in place without mosquito repellant.

>> No.7751287

>>7743696
>mankind
Instantly dropped.

>> No.7751296

>>7746373
Nope, that would be humans themselves.

>> No.7751302

>>7743583
Das racist
Reported

>> No.7751303

>>7751277
Fuckken this. The winter wont do anything to those fuckers. They only need water to survive.

>> No.7751381

>>7743142

god damn i have been saying this for years
long before it was ever a meme
and long before that female scientist made it into a meme

>> No.7751396

>>7744445
underrated post

>> No.7752457

>>7743200
I like this analogy

>> No.7752458

>>7743170

Well they're doing a bad job at it

>> No.7752459

>>7744432
Clearly you are a 12 year old. Go back to 9gag.

>> No.7753420

Can't wait to have a photonic fence on my house.

>> No.7753449
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7753449

>>7751277
Will never get rid of parasites, they drive evolution. Parasites infest every aspect of life, from this thing here you pick up wandering through the bush to the parasites of society, priests, lawyers and financial advisers.

At least you can see them, sorta deal with them, DEET and clothing, equatorial zones are so bad they have retarded the human evolution. It wasn't until the early 20th century scientists discovered a brain hookworm living in the southern US, it populated ditch water where the heathens bathed, actually made them retarded! It was eventually eradicated through education and pesticides but the reputation lives on.

>> No.7753460

>>7743142
name a reason why mosquitoes should be made extinct
no muh feels

>> No.7753466

>>7753449
Found one of these fucker sucking literally my balls. Luckily it hadn't any diseases. I didn't even walk at forest, just at grass.

>> No.7753492

>>7743142
Jamaican here. Fuck mosquitoes, I still have the scars all over my legs

>> No.7753500

>>7749845
I'll be real here. I'm totally willing to sacrifice anteaters so I can eradicate mosquitos. 100% worth it every time. Not like anteaters contribute much to the ecosystem anyway. Why don't they just eat some ants if they're hungry?

>> No.7753503

>>7753466
sounds pretty hot senpai

>> No.7753643

>>7743169
Nigger

>> No.7753888
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7753888

>>7745464

>> No.7754638

>>7743142
because they help spread:
Malaria
Chikungunya
Dog Heartworm
Dengue
Yellow Fever
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
St. Louis Encephalitis
LaCrosse Encephalitis
Western Equine Encephalitis
West Nile Virus

>> No.7754926

>>7749089
>I support x but not because of what x does
Then why the hell do you support it nerd

>> No.7755134

A majority of the world's freshwater fish eat mosquitoe larva at one point or other in their life cycle.