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inari@inari@piefed.zip
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Mosquitoes are a choice: the technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease already exists

worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquitoes-are-a-choice/
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zbyte64@zbyte64@awful.systems
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Wouldn’t that reduce the dragon fly population as well (who eats mosquito larva)?

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shartgargle@shartgargle@lemmy.zip
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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.

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King_Bob_IV@King_Bob_IV@startrek.website
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If I recall correctly mosquito larve are incredible water filters and are responsible for maintaining water quality in many types of wetlands.

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Sasha [They/Them]@Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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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Kalothar@Kalothar@lemmy.ca
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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

askabiologist.asu.edu/mosquito-species

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