Eli5: What benefits are we getting from mosquitoes and cockroaches why cant we just eradicate them/are they that vital to the food chain?

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Eli5: What benefits are we getting from mosquitoes and cockroaches why cant we just eradicate them/are they that vital to the food chain?

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Cockroaches are insanely well adapted to survive. Humans get a VERY high score on the adaptability/survival scale, but they are several levels ahead of us. Almost anything we can throw at them, they can shrug off.

They will absolutely outlive us on this planet. 

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