strvgglecity t1_ivgqweu wrote on November 7, 2022 at 9:14 PM

Reply to comment by GimmickNG in English company Oxitec has released a simple, easy to distribute commercial product they say cuts Dengue Fever spreading mosquito populations by 96%. By just adding water, genetically modified mosquito eggs mature into males whose sperm cannot result in viable female larvae. by lughnasadh

If you artificially remove a major component of a local ecosystem food chain, that is what happens. In your scenario, a human can replace the beef with other foods. That's not how nature works. If you walk in and kill half the deer, for instance, then the predator animals have less food. It's not complicated.

GimmickNG t1_ivgt6wu wrote on November 7, 2022 at 9:29 PM

> If you walk in and kill half the deer, for instance, then the predator animals have less food.

deer are far larger, just how many calories do you think this species of mosquito has?

RedditAcctSchfifty5 t1_ivhf0pc wrote on November 8, 2022 at 12:03 AM

Right, it's just that no local ecosystem exists, according to decades of scientific research, in which mosquitoes are a significant beneficial component.