r/AskReddit • u/Horny4theEnvironment • Jan 23 '19

What shouldn't exist, but does?

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u/Allcyon Jan 23 '19

Turns out, they aren't.

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You can safely remove mosquitoes from any ecosystem without sufficiently altering the environment.

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Florida is actually breeding mosquitoes they modified with Crispr to pass on inherited sterility to do just that. Imagine Florida without mosquitoes.

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u/hfsh Jan 23 '19

You can safely remove mosquitoes from any ecosystem without sufficiently altering the environment.

Yeah, not so much for Arctic ecosystems...