They are useless and annoying to all mammals.. At least worms help decompose dead matter.
2006-09-01 16:58:59 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
birds and bats would miss the FOOD ! plus who knows what else it's all interconnected you know !
2006-09-01 17:00:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Nooo!!! They are useless and annoying to SOME mammals... If these things went extinct there would be huge repercussions in the ecological web. 1) Some insectivores consume those things, so they are not useless to all mammals... 2) Many invertebrates such as spiders, mantids, and raptorial insects use mosquitoes as a major food source. (Spiders are super important for pest control!) 3) Many of these organisms are parasites and control mammal populations via diseases... 4) Many smaller bacteria and protozoa live inside mosquitoes and ticks.. destroying their hosts would have tons of consequences that we have no idea about...
So.... No!
2006-09-01 17:03:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are a few other annoying things I'd like to see go first before I'd consent to getting rid of ticks, fleas, and mosquitos.... namely "useless" people to society... at least an insect has some purpose in the world... it seems to me that some people have only one purpose.. and that's to annoy you and some how take your hard earned money...
2006-09-01 18:20:54 · answer #3 · answered by K3vag 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While my skin would probably disagree, I am going to say No. We shouldn't wish for mosquitoes to go extinct....but I am not so sure about fleas and ticks. Small fish, tadpoles and other insect larvae feed off of mosquito larvae making them part of the food chain we depend on for survival. Perhaps without mosquito larvae, the fish upon which larger fish, etc fail to develop and one whole segment of our food would become extinct.
Now, what to do about fleas and ticks. Something has to like to eat them but what?
2006-09-05 06:04:30 · answer #4 · answered by Art 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! Lousy parasites. There are enough other types of bugs to maintain the food chain. Bugs that don't solely exist by feeding off of others.
2006-09-01 17:03:30 · answer #5 · answered by Kami 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is where you are wrong, they indirectly help control and mantain animal population. every singe species of everything that you don't like or think contribute to the ecosystem do, in there own way. humans contribute less that ticks and fleas by the way. think about it, what other animal/reptile/insect has done to the earth what we have, we have polutied it, we have sped up global warming, we have taken other species habitats and so on. but dont think i am one of those weird liberal whackjobs that think deodorant is evil
2006-09-01 17:03:10 · answer #6 · answered by bigbob33 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nope, because nature requires them to be present.
You can't just get rid of a single species without affecting many other species in some fashion.
2006-09-01 17:00:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
THese insects feed other animals.
If you lose a single link in the chain, you have big problems.
2006-09-01 17:05:03 · answer #8 · answered by mnm75932 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take just one course in Ecology and you would find that all relationships are interconnected. We cannot have one without the other.
2006-09-01 17:54:32 · answer #9 · answered by kriend 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If somebody gives me a button to press to kill them all, they are all dead meat. There are some other pests that I would happily add to the list.
2006-09-01 17:02:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO!
Learn a little more about what these insects do. Then think about how horrible life would be.
2006-09-01 17:15:04 · answer #11 · answered by boter_99 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋