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Horrors We've Unleashed (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 230 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (28 children)

Mosquitoes have killed more humans than every disease ever (edit: when you obviously exclude malaria) along with every war ever, combined.

Fuck those little shits. Let them all die, it will literally change nothing on this planet because nothing solely survives off predation on mosquitoes or their larvae.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)

If those creatures that also eat mosquitoes cannot eat them anymore, that means they would have to eat other bugs more frequently, and possibly fucking up all the ecosystem.

That said, fuck mosquitoes, they can take blood from other places.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If we were to somehow magically remove mosquitos from existence in an instant, we'd better hope something fills their ecological niche quickly

[–] MelastSB 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That niche being flying bloodsucker? I'm not sure the alternative will be any better

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The niche being food for fish that share their ecosystem in larval stages, and birds/bats/frogs that share their ecosystem in their adult stage.

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