Mosquitoes in the ecosystem

[Lino249]

Hi there, I thought that this would be an interesting topic to discuss with some other minds as I came across the idea on holiday when there were a lot of them.

Mosquitoes are to me the most annoying insect in the world as they only seem to be keen on biting humans, if we were to have the means to completely eradicate them from the planet how would the ecosystem be affected by the change, surely whatever the mosquitoes predator is can easily find another main meal to survive on. I hope this is a good topic to discuss

[dimreepr]

There is no simple answer, it may be our salvation or our destruction there's no way of knowing the future; the one thing we can be sure of is they will be replaced by something that evolves to fill the niche they inhabited.

[Manticore]

In fact, it is only the females that bite humans. Only the anopheles mosquito carries malaria.

How do I know: in 30+ years in Africa I've long ago lost count of the number of times I've had malaria - it gets to be just one of those annoying things...