Seriously?!
After my last post on keystone species in which I mentioned about the elephants and how they define / redefine the ecology around them, I decided to focus on the tiny torturers that buzz around us happily and suck the blood out of us whenever and wherever they like...
After my last post on keystone species in which I mentioned about the elephants and how they define / redefine the ecology around them, I decided to focus on the tiny torturers that buzz around us happily and suck the blood out of us whenever and wherever they like...
Just imagine the whole world filled with needles pricking skins and drawing blood milli litre by milli litre at any given moment, race no bar...You get the picture!
The big question that I asked myself was 'Why the hell are they here anyway?'
Plenty of sub species, plenty of killer diseases (Malaria, Dengue, Yellow fever...to name a few), victimizing all and sundry in planet earth, there must be a solid reason for their existence right?
Scientific community is divided on the importance of Mosquitoes and the jury is still out. Half of them argue that our ecology won't be that much disturbed even if we wipe out these tormentors completely from the face of earth and the other half are just as vociferous and say any such act will screw up earth beyond our wildest imagination (population control by Mosquito bites is one check-and-balance, I am not joking!).
We the victims seem to be the only species that could devise ways to fight back but our 'fight till success' is a 'Covered Warfare', i.e. till we succeed, we cover ourselves with nets of all kinds actually!(door nets, window nets, bed nets). From our cozy, covered trenches we deploy weapons like repellents, eliminator sprays and even send 'doctored' squads of mosquitoes to "un-breed" their own race! (these agents mate with those in the wild and make them sterile you know!).
Well, what if ever we succeed? To say the least, we may lose some species of fish that feed exclusively on mosquito larvae. Worst case scenario? We won't get chocolates any more!
Mosquitoes, for all the trouble they make, are the most important pollinators of Cacao!
So the Chocoholics have a difficult choice to make :-)
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