Considering all the damage we do to eco systems and how little concern many governments have for the environment how come we are so concerned about potential consequences of fighting mosquitoes with genetically modified bacteria and similiar strategies?
Only a few species are dangerous to humans and none of them are keystone species in their ecosystems so why not just erradicate them?
In: Biology
Because it would be difficult to kill just the mosquitos and not kill other, very important insects. Anything that is effective in killing mosquitos will likely be effective in killing things we don’t necessarily want to kill.
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