When it comes to mosquitoes, many people can’t help but think of the sound of mosquitoes buzzing in their ears, which is really annoying. If you encounter this situation when you lie down to sleep at night, I believe you will face two dilemmas. If you get up and turn on the lights to wipe out the mosquitoes, the drowsiness you just brewed will disappear all at once; if you don’t get up and kill the mosquitoes If it is eliminated, the mosquitoes will be annoying and will not fall asleep, and even if they fall asleep, they are likely to be bitten by mosquitoes. In any case, mosquitoes are a very annoying insect to most people. They spread viruses through bites and cause various diseases that may be fatal. So the question is, since mosquitoes are so annoying, why don’t humans let them go extinct?
There are reasons why humans will not exterminate mosquitoes. The first reason is that mosquitoes can still play a role in the ecosystem. According to research conducted by paleontologists, the origin of mosquitoes can be traced back to the Triassic period, when dinosaurs just came out. For hundreds of millions of years, mosquitoes have gone through various huge evolutions and even mass extinctions on the earth, and they have survived to this day. It must be said that they are the winners of natural selection. After staying in the earth’s ecosystem for so long, the mosquito-based food chain has become very strong and continues to spread. Therefore, if humans take measures to lead to the extinction of mosquitoes, it may cause animals such as dragonflies, birds, frogs, and mosquitoes to lack food, or even lead to the extinction of these species, which is detrimental to the stability of the ecosystem.
Secondly, mosquitoes are helpful for modern paleontologists to understand prehistoric creatures, because they have been in contact with many prehistoric animals through blood-sucking for more than 200 million years. Some of these mosquitoes are lucky enough to be dripped with resin and then go underground and begin to suffer. The long geological process eventually formed amber. Scientists can study the genes once possessed by prehistoric creatures by extracting the blood of mosquitoes in amber. There is a similar plot in the American blockbuster “Jurassic Park”. In addition, mosquitoes also carry a lot of viruses. If they become extinct one day, the viruses on them may find new hosts and then look for opportunities to infect humans again.
Back to reality, humans do not have the ability to drive out mosquitoes, because mosquitoes are everywhere on earth except Antarctica, and the population of this type of insect far exceeds the number of humans. As long as a pool of water is found for the mosquitoes, it is an opportunity for reproduction. With that said, is there no way to contain the number of mosquitoes? This is not the case. The struggle between humans and mosquitoes has a long history, and many effective ways to deal with mosquitoes have been discovered in the process. Commonly used methods at home are insecticides, electric mosquito swatters, mosquito coils, etc., but these methods are often not very efficient.
Some experts have proposed a more efficient method for this, which is to curb the reproduction of mosquitoes. The mosquitoes that can bite humans and then suck blood are usually female mosquitoes. Scientists grasp this key to infect male mosquitoes with a kind of bacteria that can cause female mosquitoes to lose their fertility, thereby achieving the purpose of inhibiting mosquito population reproduction. If such male mosquitoes are released into the wild, theoretically, they can indeed be eliminated from the source.
Post time: Dec-29-2020