Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes

Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by speleding on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @04:44PM (#11537599)

There are places where mosquitos are an invasive species. Hawaii apparently did not have mosquitos until they were introduced there by humans. So that might be a good place to experiment with eradicating them, the "it's not natural" argument would carry less weight there.

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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by bduerst on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:52PM (#11538021)

Precisely. To be clear, eradication of invasive mosquito species where they aren't native is a great idea. Thinking that removing mosquitoes from the ecosystems everywhere won't have a negative impact on the environment is less so.

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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by funkyy on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @06:22PM (#11538176)

There will be obviously an impact. Question is how big.

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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday April 21, 2016 @02:52AM (#11540123)

I don't really understand why we're arguing about this. How many species have we lost as a result of human activity? What's one more.

Here's a list[1].

Fuck the mosquito.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_extinct_animals 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine

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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by azazqadir on Thursday April 21, 2016 @07:02AM (#11541011)

The point is we are deliberately trying to eliminate their existence and we will be directly responsible for that.

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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday April 21, 2016 @03:20PM (#11544685)

See my second reference to the Thylacine. We deliberately tried to eliminate that creature and succeeded.

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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes by u_me_him on Thursday April 21, 2016 @08:44AM (#11541616)

I can live with that

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