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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by robert_nsu on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @02:24PM (#11536578)
Dragonflies eat mosquitos. I happen to like dragonflies. The are one of the non-annoying insects I actually like to have in my (non) backyard.

edit: http://www.chron.com/life/gardening/article/Dragonflies-Moth...

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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by mark-r on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @11:26PM (#11539462)
When I was young, people were encouraged to build homes for Purple Martins, because it was believed that these birds ate a substantial quantity of mosquitos. Later it was discovered that they actually prefer to eat dragonflies. Oops!
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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by lucaspiller on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @03:53PM (#11537247)
In the UK we don't have human-biting mosquitos, yet we still have plenty of dragonflies.
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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by paulmlewis on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:12PM (#11537795)
We have plenty of human biting mosquitos in the UK, I'm quite allergic to some of them.
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