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The honest answer is that no one really knows for sure. There’s little evidence, though, that mosquitoes form a crucial link in any food chain, or that their niche could not be filled by something else. When science journalist Janet Fang spun out this thought experiment for Nature in 2010, she concluded that “life would continue as before—or even better.” I arrived at the same answer when I looked into the same question for a piece published three years later. “There’s no food chain that we know of where mosquitoes are an inevitable link in a crucial process,” one mosquito-control expert told me.
thenewgreen's post got me thinking, and started a spirited debate started on my floor about eradicating mosquitoes. What do you guys think? Too extreme? A reasonable response?
Skrew mosquitoes !
Malaria and dengue really sucks and being in se Asia right now, I get paranoid at every bite. Deet does not work great and I think we ll skip visiting Laos for long because of the mosquito illnesses. (Bouhou first world problem but i didn't realize how widespread these are until I started planning the trip). If the ecosystem will be mostly fine, I dont see why not :)