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Mosquitoes are a choice: the technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease already exists
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Mosquitoes are a choice: the technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease already exists
worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquitoes-are-a-choice/Replying to @inari@piefed.zip
Wouldn’t that reduce the dragon fly population as well (who eats mosquito larva)?
Replying to @zbyte64@awful.systems
They eat other things as well. Supposedly mosquitoes are pretty much the only living thing that’s completely useless, and can be eradicated with no ill effects.
Replying to @shartgargle@lemmy.zip
If I recall correctly mosquito larve are incredible water filters and are responsible for maintaining water quality in many types of wetlands.
Replying to @zbyte64@awful.systems
They don’t really control mosquito populations that much. Dragon flies prefer fresh permanent bodies of water (I think usually flowing too), whereas mosquito larvae inhabit stagnant pools.
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Only like 3 species out of the something of 3500 mosquito species drink human blood/ carry diesease this way, and they only do this during the females pregnancy not as a primary food source.
And of those 3 species, I think one makes up the majority of mosquitos that are found worldwide and this is the one that would be targeted