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You should lie out here and take a nap (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 5 months ago (41 children)

If we could engineer and exterminate all ticks and mosquitos we'd all be so happy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Mosquitos are pollinators.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Not all mosquitoes bite humans. If you exterminated the biting ones, the non-biting ones would just fill that same ecological niche.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The males don't bite, but the females need that sweet protein from blood to grow the next generation. Exterminating all the females (the biting ones) would end the whole population.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The non-biting variety are called "blind mosquitoes" or "midges". Their females don't suck blood.

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