Are you serious about eradicating all mosquitoes? If it can be achieved, what will be the outcome?
Summer has passed and the weather is getting cooler, and the number of mosquitoes is getting less and less, of course, it can be said that they have become less active. Mosquitoes are a nuisance to most people, and listening to their humming as they approach is torture on a hot summer day. In some developing countries, the harm that mosquitoes bring to humans is not just as simple as biting a small red envelope that is not necessary. No matter from which point of view, the existence of mosquitoes is a vector organism with no benefit to us. Everyone can’t wait to get rid of them. Recently, a representative of the National People’s Congress put forward the “Proposal on Carrying out the Comprehensive Elimination of Mosquitoes”, to put it bluntly. The goal is to make the mosquito species completely disappear from the earth. About mosquitoes
Here is an important concept of "vector organisms". Common vector organisms include mosquitoes, cockroaches and mice, and folks always like to call mice, mosquitoes, cockroaches and flies the four major pests. Mosquito is a general term for species under the Mosquito family in terms of biological classification, including more than 3,600 species in 35 genera, and more than 370 species are distributed in China alone. Among them, there are more members of the three genera Anopheles, Culex and Aedes. , accounting for more than 50%. These insects have been developing and evolving on the earth for a very long time. They existed in the age of dinosaurs. Among them, female mosquitoes mainly feed on the blood of animals. Many mammals, including humans, are threatened by mosquitoes. Of course, mosquitoes take a lot of risk to suck the blood of other creatures, and they will die on the spot. Male mosquitoes are completely different. They also need food, but they cannot get blood from mammals, but only rely on plant juices to feed their stomachs in the wild to maintain a normal lifestyle. Because mosquitoes bite humans, they may also bring some bacterial pathogens into our bodies. According to WHO statistics, there will be hundreds of millions of malaria cases worldwide in 2021, and 95% of them will occur in Africa. Mosquitoes are the culprit. The culprit, it acts as a link between the spread of the disease. Can mosquitoes really be eradicated?
Mosquitoes have been developing and multiplying on the earth for hundreds of millions of years. Although the individuals are relatively small and can be easily eliminated by mammals, the number of mosquitoes has not decreased but increased in recent years. Mosquitoes are very difficult. First of all, organisms such as mosquitoes can be destroyed by genetic engineering technology. Gene is the key to control organisms. If you master genes, you can control living organisms. You can make female mosquitoes no longer have the ability to reproduce, which fundamentally limits mosquitoes. develop.  But many people know that the result is not as good as expected. The United States has carried out the release of genetically modified mosquitoes many times, but later scientists found that this method was not as good as expected, and the number of mosquitoes could not be effectively controlled. Secondly, mosquitoes can be killed by chemical agents, but this method will gradually make the mosquitoes resistant to resistance, and eventually the mosquitoes will be "reborn" and become more powerful and difficult to defeat! From the constant struggle between humans and mosquitoes, we have found that humans may never be able to completely eliminate creatures such as mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are ubiquitous, and their reproductive capacity is also extremely strong. It is difficult to completely eliminate mosquitoes by conventional methods. Mosquitoes are all harm and no good?
I really want to say that existence is reasonable. Mosquitoes have developed and reproduced on the earth much longer than humans. They also occupy a very important position in the food chain. We like to stand on the side of ourselves. Come to think about the problem, think that mosquitoes should be eliminated quickly, because mosquitoes are harmful to us, they can transmit diseases, but we have never considered their other values. It is unrealistic to completely eliminate creatures such as mosquitoes, because it is difficult to achieve at present. Secondly, mosquitoes are a relatively important link in the food chain, and the results of removing them from nature may not be as good as imagined. Mosquitoes are insignificant individuals, but their number base is large, and their role in the complex food chain is irreplaceable, which can be said to affect the whole body. Changes in a complex system are the most difficult to predict. Sometimes we think they are insignificant, but in fact they have a great impact. As a link in the food chain, mosquitoes may not play such a big role, but if they disappear completely, it will inevitably affect the entire system. The impact of the system is sometimes insignificant, and sometimes the cumulative effect may be turned upside down. Of course, no amount of talking can eliminate the harm caused by mosquitoes to humans, but if the species is completely eliminated, it seems that it is not necessary! Text/Science Black Hole, picture source network intrusion and deletion.