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stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net to solarpunk memes@slrpnk.net ·
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"but they sting/bite/are toxic/are icky" blah blah. nature does not owe you safety

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"but they sting/bite/are toxic/are icky" blah blah. nature does not owe you safety

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stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net to solarpunk memes@slrpnk.net ·
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  • SSJMarx@lemm.ee
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    deleted by creator

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        This is just plain false. Them and their eggs are an important food source for all kinds of aquatic animals and birds. Also, their larva remove contamins for water.

        Even logically this doesn’t make sense. What’s more likely: every insect is extremely important except one, or humans are wrong (as we so often are) about one species of insect?

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          The specific mosquito species that carries malaria isn’t all that important. Other mosquitos will occupy it’s niches. That’s the mosquito people want to eradicate

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        Sounds like massive human bias at play. Any source?

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        Bed bugs?

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          • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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            who is putting their bed in a cave

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              Multiple people in opal mining areas of Australia and at least one dude in a ghost town near death valley and at least one hotel off the top of my head. I’m sure there are more

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            So what you’re saying is they should stay far away from civilization…

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        Ticks can eat shit and die too

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        sources?

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        Don’t bats eat mosquitos?

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        There are fish which are eating the larvae and also adult mosquitos.

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          They don’t feed exclusively on mosquito larvae/eggs. They can easily switch to another source.

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            I wonder how much has been studied about the ability of the other species to proliferate enough to make up and not be eaten out of existence. The mosquitos existing may not be the limiting factor on the population size of other species.

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