tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525976427330328394.post2455556816527959296..comments2024-03-25T16:48:42.738-04:00Comments on CAVEBEAR'S LAIR: Mosquito ProblemsMark's Mews (Marley, Lori, Loki, and Binq)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11135668126649348317noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525976427330328394.post-19268789127532145872016-08-09T02:47:55.993-04:002016-08-09T02:47:55.993-04:00Well, normally, I would agree with you. Killing w...Well, normally, I would agree with you. Killing wolves leads to too many deer and moose and that leads to saplings being eaten, which reduces the forests. <br /><br />But I think parasites are a different problem. Would the world be diminished by there being fewer fleas? As far as I can find, nothing depends on eating fleas. <br /><br />Similarly, there are many varieties of mosquitos, most of which are not threatening to humans. The few that are would be replaced by more of the non-threatening kind. Small loss if we could eliminate the threatening ones in that case.<br /><br />Could some of the non-threatening kind get adapted to by the disease viruses? Yeah, maybe in a hundred years. Wipe out those too. Maybe even make more varieties of non-threatening mosquitos for a few needs of birds and drangonflies. <br /><br />I think the question is one of ethics. We humans have killed off dangerous animals )and probably some plants) for a few millenia. Been attacked by any Great Auks lately? Did the ecosystem collapse when humans eliminated them?<br /><br />I haven't read of any Giant Wolverine or Saber-Tooth Cats attacks in North America recently. That seems to have worked out well. <br /><br />On the smaller scale. Let's not mourn the elimination of Smallpox in nature, for example. Would eliminating the Malaria parasite be worse? What if we could eliminate Ebola? Would that harm the environment?<br /><br />So eliminating a few species of disease-vector mosquitos does seem worth trying. <br /><br />Just a thought...Mark's Mews (Marley, Lori, Loki, and Binq)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11135668126649348317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525976427330328394.post-36225915172888278672016-08-09T01:54:36.961-04:002016-08-09T01:54:36.961-04:00I hear ya, Mark but ... haven't we learned fro...I hear ya, Mark but ... haven't we learned from past experience that everything in nature is interconnected? That if we kill mosquitoes, then that will put part of the system out of balance and cause unforeseen consequences, the like of which may put the Zika virus in the shade? I'm NOT discounting the horrors of Zika virus or the enormous death toll around the world from mosquito borne diseases - just acknowledging that we humans don't understand the natural world very well.<br /><br />Megan<br />Sydney, AustraliaMeganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03143400920174171516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525976427330328394.post-18009531921982122222016-08-08T10:43:32.726-04:002016-08-08T10:43:32.726-04:00Me and mum support you. She had one buzzing around...Me and mum support you. She had one buzzing around her ear this AM while out walking. We are way far north, but even here they are putting out skeeter traps to check which kinds are around here. Just Duckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03428843507549128138noreply@blogger.com