Let’s face it mosquitos are fuc*ing irritating and they Suck (literally). I want to know what would happen if mosquitoes went extinct, how would it change the nature.
PS: If you have any LiFe HaCk to getting invisible to mosquitos please share (in a group of 10 people and 10 mosquitos, I’ll get 10 bites and others none)
In: Biology
Mosquitos nymphs or young are an especially important food source in wetland ecosystems. Fish, turtles, and dragonfly nymphs are some major predators that feed on mosquito nymphs.
Mosquitos are also pollinators like bees. Both males and females actively feed on plant products and pollinate specific plants.
That being said, the bigger problem with any kind of extermination is the accidental killing of similar creatures in the area (mosquito insecticides are known to be better killers of other similarly sized insects, so trying to wipe them out could exterminate an endemic species of insect) and biomagnification, where the concentration of toxins in living tissue increases with each step up the food chain. Finally, insecticide-resistant mosquitos are a huge threat from poorly executed extermination efforts that fail to fully exterminate the mosquito population. This becomes an issue over time as we need to continue to develop new insecticides with unknown side effects.
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