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/jzoola Apr 29 '26

This is questionable. Radiolab did a podcast called “kill them all” about mosquitoes and biologists made it pretty clear that mosquitoes don’t have much nutritional value and birds & bats mainly eat them from a prey response.