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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Not to sound cruel, but isn't this part of the natural balance of things?
Yes its tragic that they're killing people by carrying this disease, but isn't this part of the whole circle of life thing.
Plus who knows what will happen if you wipe them out, you might wipe out an untold number of other species, or worse something will evolve to take its place as an effective disease carrier, like an immune dog with bee's in its mouth that carry the virus.
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The idea is to kill off only certain species of mosquitos that carry human pathogens. Theoretically those species would be replaced by similar species of mosquitos that aren't dangerous to humans.
You're right though, even that plan could have lots of unforeseen effects on the ecosystem, which is why it hasn't actually gone ahead.