Can we make mosquitoes go extinct?

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asked Sep 30, 2020 in Other-Environment by ChickenSalad (3,390 points)
Can we make mosquitoes go extinct?

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answered Sep 30, 2020 by Shawn (99,990 points)
We can and should kill off most mosquitoes that are around people because they do carry disease but we cannot and should not kill off the entire population of mosquitoes and make them go extinct.

It's impossible to kill off every mosquito because there are millions of mosquitoes on earth and more are being born each day.

Mosquitoes are a food source for fish so by killing off the mosquitoes you reduce the amount of food that the fish have to eat.

Even flies which are annoying cannot be killed off completely and they should not be anyway because they are beneficial to the earth.

Making flies go extinct completely would not be doable.

Although we can kill the flies that are flying around and bothering us there's no way to kill off all the flies in the world because there are billions of flies on earth.

Also flies multiply really faster and faster than you can kill all of them off.

The best thing that you can do is just kill off all the flies that are around you or kill off most of the flies that are around you.

However no matter how many flies you kill there will be more flies the next summer to bother you.

Flies are annoying but they are actually beneficial to the earth.

The purpose of flies is to pollinate plants, consume decomposing bodies, eat the sludge in your drainpipes, damage crops, spread disease, kill spiders, hunt dragonflies.

There are around 17 million flies per each person so it would be impossible to kill off the entire population of flies as there's more flies around than there are humans.
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answered Dec 8, 2021 by Minty (132,850 points)
It would be impossible to make all mosquitoes go extinct because although we kill them and should they also multiply by the millions.

Also mosquitoes are important for aquatic life as they feed on the mosquitoes.

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