What would happen if mosquitoes went extinct?

As you sit comfortably on your chair trying to get a little quiet, you hear a sound coming from afar and then this sound is slowly approaching to discover after a while it is a mosquito, and not to notice of course put her legs on your skin, and then absorb some blood to find yourself involuntarily trying Struggling with dimensions or elimination… But unfortunately, the time is over and hit you with some bruises that will certainly bother you a lot! To ponder a little and then wonder what if all kinds of mosquitoes are extinct from this planet?! What if the entire mosquito flocks wiped out and the world was completely free of them?!

Mosquitoes are a family of winged insects whose females absorb human blood and are the most common blood-sucking insects.

In the beginning we will tell you that the extinction of mosquitoes in a comprehensive way to eliminate about 3500 species of mosquitoes, and this number, of course, is the number of mosquito species we currently know, and of those thousands of mosquito species there are only a few hundred species attack and bite humans, including three species We can add yellow fever, dengue, Japanese encephalitis, Rift Valley fever, Chikungunya virus, and West Nile virus.

Mosquitoes have positive and negative effects on the ecosystem. If we talk about the useful part of its role, mosquito larvae live in the water and provide food to fish and other animals, and the larvae themselves eat microorganisms in the water, which helps to recycle, and adult mosquitoes are part of the diet of some insect-eating animals, Like birds, bats, dragonflies and spiders. They also help to pollinate some flowers, when they consume nectar.

But mosquitoes also have a destructive role. Mosquitoes do not cause disease; they act as carriers and carriers. They feed on a person or animal that is already infected, and then when they bite another healthy person or animal, they pass it on.

Let's go back to our main topic about mosquito extinction or complete eradication. To answer this question we will go a little to some scientists who have studied a number of possible ways to kill mosquitoes, and suggested among these possible ways genetic method; Making mosquitoes produce more males than females, and by continuing that process with each new generation that emerges, which is primarily by the majority of males, those species will eventually become self-limiting. Only males do not reproduce, eventually leading to their extinction. To create a genetically modified mosquito, the researchers used the enzyme that affects the X chromosome during sperm production.

But is this really the solution?! Mosquitoes have been living on this planet for more than 100 million years and have become an important part of the food chain.

Scientists have found that if there is a way or way to eliminate mosquitoes once and for all, it will create a clear absence in the environment. Let us take, for example the Arctic tundra. Many of the mosquito species found there are very abundant and in turn, provide food for migratory birds. If these mosquitoes are eliminated, some birds in that area will drop by more than half says entomologist Bruce Harrison. Some scientists also predict that a similar fate awaits many fish species around the world, and most animals need to adapt to the new diet to survive, but this scenario will be particularly difficult for fish such as Mosquitofish.

In fact, if mosquitoes disappear, the insects and fish they feed on will dwindle and can have a multiplier effect throughout the food chain. Mosquito larvae are very important in the aquatic environment. The loss of this food source causes their numbers to decline and is a major source of spiders, salamanders, lizards, and frogs.

Humans overestimate the Arctic bargains as a more important source of nutrients, and some other scientists also predict that while some animals will starve, this will not cause disaster and most will eventually adapt. The other prey will take its place quickly and other organisms will take over and life will continue without mosquito-borne diseases. Malaria, for example, kills about one million people a year and makes another 246 million sick every year.

The disappearance of mosquitoes will put an end to 246 million cases of the disease every year. It will also end the killing of one million people a year on the planet, but on the other hand, when it disappears, it will kill a huge number of birds and insects, then fish, and then animals, and eventually it will affect us. One way or another, what do you think would you agree to eliminate the annoying mosquitoes once and for all.