I'm not one of those people who believes that things were "put" on this earth, but rather that they evolved to fill ecological niches. Here are some good things that gnats do: some species are pollinators, some aid in the decomposition of organic matter, most serve as a food source for other creatures, the list goes on.
2006-06-30 10:55:00
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answered by Danaerys 5
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The term gnat is applied as a colloquial name to any of various small insects in the order Diptera and specifically within the suborder Nematocera. This suborder represents the more primitive members of the Dipteran order but still contains several very notable and important families such as the Chironomidae (non-biting midges) and the Culicidae (mosquitoes). Other families include the Tipulidae (crane flies), Bibionidae (hairflies), Ceratopogonidae (biting midges), Cecidomyidae (gall midges), Simuliidae (black flies), and others. The males often assemble together in large mating swarms. Gnat larvae are mostly free-living, many feeding on plants though some are carnivorous. Larval plant feeders, e.g., the Hessian fly larvae, cause root, stem, and leaf galls to be formed by the host plant. Some species of fungus gnats (families Mycetophilidae and Sciaridae) are very common pests of mushrooms and roots of potted plants in homes and greenhouses.
Females need a blood meal in order
to become fertile and once she mates, will lay hundreds
of eggs. Though she will look for moist damp areas
on which to lay her brood, each species will take
advantage of prime locations which can vary from
region to region. One region may find eggs common
throughout salt marshes and streams; another area
may find the eggs on animal droppings or rain
ditches. Flower pots which accumulate standing water,
along with gutters, rain barrels, old tires and buckets
all can hold more then enough water to provide the
needed moisture for gnats to successfully grow and
thrive. Once eggs hatch, larva will feed for 2-3 weeks
and then undergo metamorphosis in a cocoon like stage
called pupa. Once they fully mature, they will hatch
out as adults with males immediately taking to wing to
find a female.
See gnat control in
http://www.bugspray.com/article/gnats.html
2006-06-30 10:48:33
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answered by Anonymous
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The Bible replaced into no longer authored via men. if fact be told, there have been circumstances whilst people who participated interior the actual act of writing the Bible had to circulate back and examine what they wrote via fact they could no longer have faith what replaced into written. God, if fact be told, says interior the Bible, that via observing the universe and all that He has created, this is going to likely be obtrusive that God has created those issues. tell a physics professor which you quite desire to accomplish an test in which you're taking a brilliant number of of mass, warmth it as much as we could say a pair hundred-thousand levels, demonstrate the lump to an explosion able to blasting the whole universe. Now the effect of the explosion would be held in a vacuum. How long till now the 1st complicated organism varieties? the 1st DNA strand? Eco-equipment? in case you autoclave a scientific device and them place it in a vacuum chamber, are you able to assume micro organism to kind, given the terrific suited quantity of time? Why is there no longer even one unmarried residing organism exterior of Earth?
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answered by Anonymous
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For the same reason Jessie Duplantus was, to annoy the hell out of everyone.
2006-06-30 10:46:47
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answered by Anonymous
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they are part of the food chain.. They feed things like spiders, so they can eay the even more problem-causing misquitos
2006-06-30 10:43:15
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answered by Katie Victoria 3
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To trap someone in a spelling bee!!
2006-06-30 10:46:58
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answered by Ilsa 2
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they were put here to grow into flys. which were put on the earth to annoy us.
2006-06-30 10:46:56
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answered by ilovedanze 2
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they were put here to annoy us, just like mosquitoes!
2006-06-30 10:42:40
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answered by lojack 3
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to eat rotten fruit...nothing should go to waste.
2006-06-30 10:42:54
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answered by deerwoman777 6
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WHO THE &*?% SHOULD I KNOW
2006-06-30 10:43:22
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answered by go_irish_34 1
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