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http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archi..._go_ahead_kill_all_the_mosquitoes_the_wo.html
I say we kill em all!
In a revealing analysis, Nature magazine put this very question to ecologists, asking them whether removing the some 3,500 species of mosquitoes from the planet would irreparably harm the world's fragile ecosystems.
The story's conclusion? No:
Scientists acknowledge that the ecological scar left by a missing mosquito would heal quickly as the niche was filled by other organisms. Life would continue as before -- or even better.
I say we kill em all!
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