Could we eliminate mosquitoes from the planet?

[norseamd]

I think we should give squirrels flyswatters and pay them to kill all the mosquitoes. I hear they will gladly work for peanuts!

fuck

the crows outside my house know i will give them food and they caw at me for some every so often

 

[SMOGZINN]

There already exists a superior mosquito eating predator, the dragonfly. I've seen a huge cloud of mosquitoes quickly taken out by just a handful of dragonflies.

So what you are saying is that we need to uplift dragonflies and train them to serve as our own personal mosquito defense system? I approve of this idea. Get the geneticists on it ASAP!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah that sounds about right. Replace a species that has no trouble surviving and multiplying with one that just dies of starvation a few days after being born. How do you think that's going to go? 🙄

You religious folks really don't understand evolution and natural selection do you? I mean I thought maybe you were just trolling but now I'm starting to be convinced that you actually do lack the mental capacity to understand how it works. Sad really. I want to believe everyone can understand and learn as much as anyone else if they just put the time and effort into it, but it seems as if that might not be so.

WTF it was meant as a joke.

By replacing mosquitoes with a species that can't eat or reproduce, it means they would not be any. It's a paradox. It has NOTHING to do with evolution/atheism or religion and I have no clue WTF you even brought that up. You are trolling.

I like my nanobot idea better anyway, let's just build nano bots controlled by a global defense wireless network called flynet that seek out and destroy them.

Squirrels and chipmunks with fly swatters could work too. Though they are too smart and rather wait till we swat them so they can come eat them after for a meal they don't have to chase around for. They know they still get peanuts from us regardless by giving us "puppy eyes".

At camp we used to wonder how no matter how many flies and mosquitoes we killed, the ground never accumulated with bodies. Then we saw a few chipmunks and squirrels passing by to eat them off the ground. Protein.

 

[JTsyo]

People are already working on it. It's not unprecedented either, quite a few other flying pests have already been eliminated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique

There has already also been another technique used to control them. The males are engineered to produce only male offspring who will also only have male offspring. I would guess that it would half the population of mosquitoes each generation as long as the modified ones can compete with regular ones for mates.

 

[SunnyD]

Given I'm readily allergic to the nasty shit that those fuckers inject into me when taking a drink, yes. Kill them all.

 

[tmc]

saw this on FB the other day:

"what if the mosquitoes sucked the fat from you instead of blood?"

now, that is an idea. engineer a species of mosquitoes that sucked fat (and sell for PROFIT!!!).

 

[takeru]

There has already also been another technique used to control them. The males are engineered to produce only male offspring who will also only have male offspring. I would guess that it would half the population of mosquitoes each generation as long as the modified ones can compete with regular ones for mates.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27765974

In the new mosquitoes, the X-attacking endonuclease is turned on specifically during sperm formation. As a result, the males produce almost no X-containing sperm - or female offspring. More than 95% of their progeny are male.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Show me where the bad mosquito priest touched you.

If mosquitos are catholic, that might explain why they reproduce so much and don't wrap their stingers...

 

[Jeff7]

I just treated a mosquito bite that got all nasty and was oozing. Its really hard not to scratch the bites....

I'm just going to wrap myself in cellophane before I go outside.

That's hot.

"Seals in freshness."

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I like my nanobot idea better anyway, let's just build nano bots controlled by a global defense wireless network called flynet that seek out and destroy them.

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RIP IPv6.

 

[MrColin]

If we wiped out the mosquitos on the entire planet, the human population of Africa would double every 5 minutes until...