Would it be right to say that a healthy rainforest with an intact econsystem has far less insects ............

Question

Would it be fair to say that mosquitoes causing Malaria and Dengue fever and other disease are naturally reduced in a healthy rainforest because of the presence of natural enemies like: bats,birds,fish and reptiles?

Answer 1

The rain forest is fine ,I lined in Ecuador 12 years . the co I worked for spent $1 million trying to keep the roads open. The insects were huge and bite ,but there was a study about yellow fever trapped in the deep jungle did not carry but a few infections. Some other info indicate that the mosquito may be living in our sewers and when they come out and bite u . Get the picture we need to fight the mosquitoes in the sewers.

Answer 2

An eco-system is always in a dynamic state. For example: Assuming the food supply for the bats, birds, fish and reptiles has deminished greatly, then what will they eat to survive? With reduced/less/no food for them, there will be much fewer of them. Then, will less predators, the mosquitoes will flurish ... assuming they have adequate food supply. Then, with many mosquitoes, the bats, birds, fish and reptiles will have an opportunity to flurish ... thus starting the cycle all over.

Answer 3

Not necisseraly. What you will find is that the predator and prey live in close harmony. As they prey is eaten there numbers reduce. Therefore there is less to go around for the predators. As the weakest predators die out there numbers decline. There are now less predators so you get a rise in the prey numbers. As the prey numbers increase there is more food and the predator numbers rise again. This will repeat endlessly unlesss another factor enters such as Man.

Answer 4

I would say no. The only way to reduce the mosquito population is to destroy the places where they breed, stagnant water.