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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All those delicious farm fresh eggs with the yolks so orange they dye your pancakes orange that you get from your friend out in the country?
Yeah, those chickens love roaches.
But in addition to the chickens eating the bugs, it would be hard to “take out” mosquitos and roaches because anything that kills them will likely kill other similar insects and not only affect the parts of the food web based on roaches and mosquitos, but the parts that depend on water striders, flour beetles, springtails, isopods, etc.
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