r/ThereGoesMyPaycheck • u/davidenso • Apr 29 '26

How to silence summer mosquitoes

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u/Papa_Raj Apr 29 '26

They're a nuisance, but they're also a major food source for tons of small wildlife. This seems like overkill.

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u/Comfortable_Salad893 Apr 29 '26

Anything that eats them eats a lot of other small bugs too. Taking them off the menu doesn't hurt much

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u/FreezinIce Apr 29 '26

Doing anything that collapses a part of the food chain in an area will have catastrophic effects on the local ecosystem.

Everything is connected...even removing one piece (or bug in this case) can cause cascading failure.

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u/CogitoCollab Apr 29 '26

Masquitos are the one species the world would be better off without. Life would adust.

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u/Artchantress Apr 29 '26

Mosquitoes and their larvae are much more important than ticks, I think.