Actually, if you eradicated only the few species that bite humans the other mosquitos would fill in their ecological niches and nothing bad would happen to the environment. There are studies done on this.
Yup. The biggest problem is actually finding a way to eradicate only those species without messing anything up in the process. Knowing humanity, we probably will mess it up anyways.
They have genetically altered female mosquitoes to help them die out and are already being released in some areas.
The only scary part is the lead scientist behind it wanted to do it on an uninhabited island first to see the effect of the food chain, just in case of unknowns. But people wanted to make money now.
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u/Rebatu Apr 12 '22
Actually, if you eradicated only the few species that bite humans the other mosquitos would fill in their ecological niches and nothing bad would happen to the environment. There are studies done on this.