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by Brenhden on November 17th, 2008
Have you never heard the DDT story?
by Ms.A on November 17th, 2008
Food for fish, birds and bats.For humans,they cause more problems than anything.
by chuck on November 24th, 2008
There primary purpose is to be fast and nourishing food for birds and other animals. They are one of the most imoportan species in the Circumpolar North, for the feed and multiply so fast as to feed the migratory foul that has flown north to mate and rear their offspring. IF the mosquito link in the food chain would have detrimental far reaching effects on the animal species. Now their purpose in the tropical countries is a bit out of my jurisdiction but I can say with any degree of accuracy that mosquitos play a similar role . Mind you they are pests and can be regulated with spring spraying and personal deet enriched mosquito dope, but it would be little but impossible to remove the mosquito from out planet
by Peregrine on November 17th, 2008
To give us something else to worry about.
by maS elcnU on November 17th, 2008
Spread deceases.
My 2 cents.
by NotAnonymous on November 17th, 2008
Population control. They spread disease to keep the human population from becoming over populated.
by -O-uknow on November 24th, 2008
.. to justify spell check.
by Bull wears a COAT of many colours on November 17th, 2008
They feed fish, bats, spiders. They are part of the ecosystem. Oh, yeah, and they help control the human population by spreading malaria and who knows what else.
by luna y sol on November 17th, 2008
I'm sure people who enjoy scratching themselves think that mosquitoes are wonderfully useful...!
Personally, I'm not convinced...!
by Blackberry. on November 17th, 2008
As far as their place in the ecosystem, it is either very small or so detrimental that they should really have no purpose. Not all organisms in the ecosystem have a beneficial purpose.
If anything, they serve as lab subjects for scienstist to find cures for the diseases they spread, killing humans, at least now they do. Just like rats used to be free, some are now born just for research.
Or they could just be another life force living to just live, like us, we eat, sleep, procreate, and repeat the cycle. They are just lower on the chain.
by 773491 on November 17th, 2008
Why should they be of any use? The earth is not an organism (unlike some Gaia fanatics might think), every organism lives for its own benefit. If mosquitoes happen to indirectly benefit some other animals, well that's great, but they weren't made for that (they weren't made at all) and they don't need to do that.
by Your sisters cute friend on November 24th, 2008
No purpose. They just are. They're not God's Master's Thesis, they're just a convenience of evolution.
by Don Gorgeous George on November 25th, 2008
Their purpose is food for bats.
by holeinthewoods on November 24th, 2008
I'd say food for certain other living creatures.
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enlighten me...
by Alias xsicajess on November 17th, 2008
My biology teacher taught us at school to explain food chains...
There was a great fishing lake that was infested with mosquitos somewhere in the US. So they got this new chemical (this was in the 50s I think) called DDT. All the mosquitos vanished and everyone rejoiced, hooray, and they fished until the season ended. The following year they went back to the lake for more ace fishing but, alas, all the fish were gone. But where? Well it turns out the young fish ate the mosquito lavae and without it they all starved to death.
by Brenhden on November 17th, 2008
Wow, and yech all at once, thank you
by Alias xsicajess on November 17th, 2008