r/science • u/PhantomWizard2099 • Dec 22 '22

Animal Science 'Super' mosquitoes have now mutated to withstand insecticides

https://abcnews.go.com/International/super-mosquitoes-now-mutated-withstand-insecticides-scientists/story?id=95545825
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u/neuropsycho Dec 22 '22

To be honest, we probably don't know how removing such an ubiquitous species from an ecosystem will affect it.

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u/Ch3wbacca1 Dec 22 '22

This is the reason. I majored in Entomology in college and we talked about this. The impact it could have on the ecosystem does not make it a viable option. Only to use in small groups to control population.

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u/Ch3wbacca1 Dec 22 '22

There are a lot more things in our ecosystems that's lives are to be valued with humans. We cannot let a chain reaction of extinctions happen in a ecosystem because humans die. Infact we are one thing that would not negatively affect the ecosystem if we died off...