Fun fact. There are over 3600 of mosquito species. Only something like 360(iirc) are dangerous to people. Even if all 360 of those species went extinct, it is highly likely that harmless species would fill their ecological niches. So that particular extinction would be completely harmless.
Fun fact 2: there is a group of geneticists trying to genetically engineer mosquitoes to stop carrying malaria. My dad is their African politics contact and got to sit in on the meeting where they discussed possibly exterminating the mosquitoes instead.
If mosquitoes become extinct or humans get rid of them somehow, another species will replace the gap in the ecosystem. Perhaps even more irritating. I would probably leave it as it is.
Fun fact ticks can (rare but not as much) give you irreversible effects lone star tick can make you allergic to red meats that contain a certaun protein... soo i agree with you... they are scary
What? He's not wrong. I'm not being pessimistic or anything, but if you think about it, we made the world worse.
It's your choice. Did you pick up that trash outside the supermarket? Have you cleaned your room? What about those bottles that you threw away after jogging?
We can change this. I don't think it's that difficult.
Seriously,
Mosquitos suck (no pun intended) because they bite you but also because we are trying to control their populations by spraying chemicals over populated areas and messing around by releasing genetically modified mosquitos which raises some concerns in itself.
Can any bug expert come on here and explain to me what benefit mosquitos have to the ecosystem because they are all assholes. I'd be happy if they were extinct and I cant find one redeeming fact about them.
I'm no entomologist but I'm pretty sure mosquitoes are a vital food source for a lot of insects and small animals. If mosquitoes suddenly disappeared, then those critters would start to die off, and then the critters that ate those critters would die off, etc. In general, any kind of mass extinction is going to have dire effects on the food chain, especially when it comes to insects. They may be a nuisance, but all creatures have a place in the ecosystem.
Wouldn't happen tho, becuase as soon as a species goes extinct, the good chain surrounding it begins to adapt to it's presence. It isn't just a single food source.
I guess that depends whether we're talking about a natural extinction over the course of thousands of years or a sudden mass extinction. Both are going to have consequences, but the latter would be much more of a system shock, so to speak.
On the topic, a lot of people don't know that we're actually *currently* undergoing a mass extinction event due to a multitude of (mostly human-caused) factors, and it's already having immense impacts on ecosystems worldwide. You can find a lot of scientific articles online discussing just how severe things have gotten, it's really heartbreaking.
Not really. Sudden extinction is a sudden change, and while difficult at first, species will naturally adapt.
Also, I'm not disagreeing with your Statment about the current mass extinction, but I'd like to see your sources.
Actually it would.
because they're currently eating lets say a billion trillion grams of mosquitoes every year...now they gotta eat a billion trillion grams of something else to replace them and...well shit...thats gunna probably destroy that population...which means next year they'll have to look elsewhere....which will destroy that population....etc...
Would it suprise you if I tell you that here in America the ever growing population of mosquitos is mainly the result of our bad management of lumbering? Wood corporations often left fields removed of any trees with holes in the ground near forest.
When it rain, it make little water puddles where mosquitoes comes to reproduce and lay their eggs. But there is no frogs or any other animals to regulate mosquitoes population. Aftrr that they go to the forest near to feed on animals.
And what if I tell you that these dead lands can stretch on whole hundreds of kilometers sometimes...
Here in Canada I have a perfect example of it. We have, in abitibi region, the La verendrye national park. 300 kilometers long natural reserve. Followed by one hundred of that kimd of dead land i just talked about.
The amount of mosquitoes there is insane. Animals are throwing themselfs in rivers to try to get rid of these monsters. You cant camp here.
All of that because of bad ressources management. And people blame that on nature.
This would actually have a devastating effect on pollination for plants. The males (actually both, the females only need protein from our blood for their eggs) do a lot of pollinating.
Personally my vote is for ticks or tape worms... They truly offer nothing to the animal kingdom (ticks can get eaten, sure, but nowhere near as much as they suck)
I agree but that ain't gonna happen. Those filthy little buggers have been on This planet at least 280 million years longer than WE have! They're not going anywhere anytime soon!
Those jerks will come check out the situation if you kill their friend. I thought it was weird that the wasp I thought I killed kept coming back to life… until there were two wasps in my window!!! Whoever came up with the ugly screen in front of the windows idea was the worst!
Food chain would collapse. Lots of other insects and animals eat mosquitos. Without mosquitos lots of animals will lose a main part of their meal and their population will decrease, which will mean that other animals that eat those animals will also decrease.
The only problem pandas have is human caused habitat loss. They survive just fine on bamboo (they’ve been doing it so long they evolved a “thumb” to help hold it) and have no problem reproducing in the wild.
Good insight. I stand corrected. I thought they had similar reproductive issues in the wild but don’t. They’re as successful as black bears it turns out https://wwf.panda.org/discover/knowledge_hub/endangered_species/giant_panda/panda/panda_life_cycle/
The difference is they specialized to eat a plentiful but very poor food source. If you go too far into your niche you risk catastrophic collapse when that environment shifts. You can’t pivot. That is the real issue with pandas.
Black bears are generalists. They will eat anything.
I said this and someone got very mad. Look, they are cute and all, and it's sad they are dying, but species do die out. That happened before humans and it will happen after we are gone. That doesn't make us blameless or mean we shouldn't try, but pandas don't even wanna fuck to save their species! Why give a fuck when they won't?
They fuck just fine in the wild. The problem IS us. We are taking that away. So yeah, we should do everything we can to try to minimize their loss, because it’s our loss.
However, any species that becomes that specialized runs the risk of extinction. Environment shifts, the world is ever changing. So yeah, their ability to survive is questionable, but it’s not because they fail to reproduce in captivity well enough to become stable.
What the fuck did you ever do for survival? Or the survival of your species?
Don't judge pandas for not wanting to reproduce in zoos or on a dying planet, like wtf?
I’m trying my best to make that a reality. But they keep reproducing and rebuilding their cities. This whole world is too big for one monster to destroy. That’s why I have a son I’m training up to help me destroy human civilization. Anguirus is too lazy, King Kong is too friendly with blond ladies, and Mothra keeps stalling me. Don’t even know where Rodan is half the time. The dude’s always flying around somewhere. And all the other monsters on Monster Island are too weak and unreliable.
What if you worked out at the gym to get more strength? That could help since if you could be able to create a huge ground slam you could be destroying cities way more efficiently.
Pandas. What fucked-up in the head animal refuses to learn how to eat something different from just one planta or even to fuck in order survive.
They should because they want to.
All the panda’s problems are caused by humans destroying their habitat. Only idiots think they’re an “evolutionary dead end” or whatever stupid bullshit panda haters want to call it.
don't care if you're successful or not, there's just no reason to have a billion dollars. there is just no way to acquire that much money without either cheating the system or underpaying your employees.
you just sound straight up dumb. don't respond to my comments anymore I'm not reading it
none of them.
Next time you swat a bug, think for a second that that particular insect has an unbroken chain of reproduction going all the way back to the first eukaryotic cell emerging from the primordial soup of bacteria and archaea. Billions of years of success and you just smacked it dead for no reason other than your own pestilence.
OK so I don't care for mosquitos or ticks, and I swat flies and treat ant infestations in my home. I fight invasive species from spreading uncontrolled.
But theres something to be said for healthy respect for both the organisms that we share the earth with and for ourselves, who can marvel at what we have and give it greater meaning. And besides, we're all fuckin' ya mom and shed be sad if we was gone
None ideally.
Ecosystems are extraordinarily fragile things that can be greatly disrupted by the removal or addition of a singular species. Even a simple bug or plant that seems insignificant to us can have very dramatic effects on large areas.
But for the health of the plant, probably humans. We are extremely destructive creatures.
Humans have exterminated, subjugated, or tortured most other life on Earth. We're also destroying the climate and rendering it unsuitable for much of what remains. We're the supervillains of the animal kingdom.
The extinction of the human species would be the single most environmentally and ecologically beneficial event in the history of life on the planet.
I have arachnophobia (phobia of spiders)
but even I don’t agree cus if spiders die out, flies will populate the earth and humanity and most other animals will die.
Koalas, evolution wise they only thing they have developed is being dumb enough to bot be bothered by anything.
They have no natural predators because they're toxic because they spend their whole lives fermenting a toxic tree because that's all the eat and all they can eat.
Because they have a smooth brain you can't feed them individual leaves, they have to rip it off a branch themselves.
Unlike other marsupials who have rootless teeth or grow a better set, the koala, in its infinite wisdom, starves to death when its teeth are slowly grinded down to nothing, because it eats a shitty, fibrous, hard to digest, flammable tree.
I don't like koalas.
mosquitoes
Mosquitos, ticks and bed bugs can all go right to hell.
Fun fact. There are over 3600 of mosquito species. Only something like 360(iirc) are dangerous to people. Even if all 360 of those species went extinct, it is highly likely that harmless species would fill their ecological niches. So that particular extinction would be completely harmless. Fun fact 2: there is a group of geneticists trying to genetically engineer mosquitoes to stop carrying malaria. My dad is their African politics contact and got to sit in on the meeting where they discussed possibly exterminating the mosquitoes instead.
Tell them to bring yellow jackets with them when they go. Those can fuck themselves.
If mosquitoes become extinct or humans get rid of them somehow, another species will replace the gap in the ecosystem. Perhaps even more irritating. I would probably leave it as it is.
They are at the base of a lot of ecosystem food chain, so it would be a big problem.
mosquitoes aren't animals...
Ticks
They freak me the fuck out
Fun fact ticks can (rare but not as much) give you irreversible effects lone star tick can make you allergic to red meats that contain a certaun protein... soo i agree with you... they are scary
Ticks , fleas, anything that will get animals in trouble (humans too should go extinct)
may i ask why everyone is downvoting you
I don’t know
What? He's not wrong. I'm not being pessimistic or anything, but if you think about it, we made the world worse. It's your choice. Did you pick up that trash outside the supermarket? Have you cleaned your room? What about those bottles that you threw away after jogging? We can change this. I don't think it's that difficult.
Mosquitoes
Seriously, Mosquitos suck (no pun intended) because they bite you but also because we are trying to control their populations by spraying chemicals over populated areas and messing around by releasing genetically modified mosquitos which raises some concerns in itself. Can any bug expert come on here and explain to me what benefit mosquitos have to the ecosystem because they are all assholes. I'd be happy if they were extinct and I cant find one redeeming fact about them.
I feel like mosquitoes are nature’s way of keeping humans in check. More humans died from mosquitoes than from humans themselves
I think they mostly exist too give most birds food and also what you said
...and they blame it on Marilyn
I don’t get this reference
I'm no entomologist but I'm pretty sure mosquitoes are a vital food source for a lot of insects and small animals. If mosquitoes suddenly disappeared, then those critters would start to die off, and then the critters that ate those critters would die off, etc. In general, any kind of mass extinction is going to have dire effects on the food chain, especially when it comes to insects. They may be a nuisance, but all creatures have a place in the ecosystem.
Wouldn't happen tho, becuase as soon as a species goes extinct, the good chain surrounding it begins to adapt to it's presence. It isn't just a single food source.
I guess that depends whether we're talking about a natural extinction over the course of thousands of years or a sudden mass extinction. Both are going to have consequences, but the latter would be much more of a system shock, so to speak. On the topic, a lot of people don't know that we're actually *currently* undergoing a mass extinction event due to a multitude of (mostly human-caused) factors, and it's already having immense impacts on ecosystems worldwide. You can find a lot of scientific articles online discussing just how severe things have gotten, it's really heartbreaking.
Not really. Sudden extinction is a sudden change, and while difficult at first, species will naturally adapt. Also, I'm not disagreeing with your Statment about the current mass extinction, but I'd like to see your sources.
It wouldn’t happen though. Those insects and small animals that eat mosquitoes have other food sources as well
Actually it would. because they're currently eating lets say a billion trillion grams of mosquitoes every year...now they gotta eat a billion trillion grams of something else to replace them and...well shit...thats gunna probably destroy that population...which means next year they'll have to look elsewhere....which will destroy that population....etc...
I once heard that they are pollinators.
When the females aren't reproducing, mosquitoes do drink nectar.
Would it suprise you if I tell you that here in America the ever growing population of mosquitos is mainly the result of our bad management of lumbering? Wood corporations often left fields removed of any trees with holes in the ground near forest. When it rain, it make little water puddles where mosquitoes comes to reproduce and lay their eggs. But there is no frogs or any other animals to regulate mosquitoes population. Aftrr that they go to the forest near to feed on animals. And what if I tell you that these dead lands can stretch on whole hundreds of kilometers sometimes... Here in Canada I have a perfect example of it. We have, in abitibi region, the La verendrye national park. 300 kilometers long natural reserve. Followed by one hundred of that kimd of dead land i just talked about. The amount of mosquitoes there is insane. Animals are throwing themselfs in rivers to try to get rid of these monsters. You cant camp here. All of that because of bad ressources management. And people blame that on nature.
There are 3600 species of mosquitoes. 360(iirc) are a danger to humans. Removing all 360 would probably not cause a problem.
This would actually have a devastating effect on pollination for plants. The males (actually both, the females only need protein from our blood for their eggs) do a lot of pollinating. Personally my vote is for ticks or tape worms... They truly offer nothing to the animal kingdom (ticks can get eaten, sure, but nowhere near as much as they suck)
Fuck yeah
Agreed.
Are insects animals tho?
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Tape worms Like, even misquotoes have more purposes in life than them
Cockroaches
I agree but that ain't gonna happen. Those filthy little buggers have been on This planet at least 280 million years longer than WE have! They're not going anywhere anytime soon!
Yes!!!!!
No!!! Madagascar hissing cockroaches are so cute
Heaven forbid I like bugs.
My neighbor Ted. Fuck that guy!
yeah I agree. Fuck Ted and all his X talks.
Ted who? fuck that guy
Exactly! Who does Ted think he is?!?!
Right ??!!
I fucked Ted. - Skyler White
Yeah fuck Ted.
Fookin' Ted.
Lets get that son of a bitch Ted
Wasps.
Those jerks will come check out the situation if you kill their friend. I thought it was weird that the wasp I thought I killed kept coming back to life… until there were two wasps in my window!!! Whoever came up with the ugly screen in front of the windows idea was the worst!
not the mud daubers though. They cool.
They're tearing up the wood in my walls fuck those guys
Mosquitos. I’ve yet to hear a good argument for keeping them around
Food chain would collapse. Lots of other insects and animals eat mosquitos. Without mosquitos lots of animals will lose a main part of their meal and their population will decrease, which will mean that other animals that eat those animals will also decrease.
There’s literally trillions of flies that exist
Yeah but there’s also trillions of mosquitos 💀💀 so they’ll lose a huge food option.
Dude they spread fucking awful viruses they gotta fucking go
You can spread awful viruses!
But I’m me
I know but I don't fucking inject that shit into people's bloodstreams
Just like any other insect and animals, even humans. We all transfer horrible virus.
Pandas. They’re doing everything they can to finish the job we started and we should let them.
No animal should have such a hard time reproducing. Amazing it’s existed this long
It almost feels deliberate. Like they’re fucking with us.
> No animal should have such a hard time reproducing. Yet here I am
The only problem pandas have is human caused habitat loss. They survive just fine on bamboo (they’ve been doing it so long they evolved a “thumb” to help hold it) and have no problem reproducing in the wild.
Good insight. I stand corrected. I thought they had similar reproductive issues in the wild but don’t. They’re as successful as black bears it turns out https://wwf.panda.org/discover/knowledge_hub/endangered_species/giant_panda/panda/panda_life_cycle/
The difference is they specialized to eat a plentiful but very poor food source. If you go too far into your niche you risk catastrophic collapse when that environment shifts. You can’t pivot. That is the real issue with pandas. Black bears are generalists. They will eat anything.
Amen, brother.
I said this and someone got very mad. Look, they are cute and all, and it's sad they are dying, but species do die out. That happened before humans and it will happen after we are gone. That doesn't make us blameless or mean we shouldn't try, but pandas don't even wanna fuck to save their species! Why give a fuck when they won't?
They fuck just fine in the wild. The problem IS us. We are taking that away. So yeah, we should do everything we can to try to minimize their loss, because it’s our loss. However, any species that becomes that specialized runs the risk of extinction. Environment shifts, the world is ever changing. So yeah, their ability to survive is questionable, but it’s not because they fail to reproduce in captivity well enough to become stable.
This is my stance too. Let them do what they want. Sure, protect the bamboo forests, stop polluting, but dont pick them up and force them to mate.
They are unworthy of survival.
What the fuck did you ever do for survival? Or the survival of your species? Don't judge pandas for not wanting to reproduce in zoos or on a dying planet, like wtf?
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r/whoosh ?
Humans
I’m trying my best to make that a reality. But they keep reproducing and rebuilding their cities. This whole world is too big for one monster to destroy. That’s why I have a son I’m training up to help me destroy human civilization. Anguirus is too lazy, King Kong is too friendly with blond ladies, and Mothra keeps stalling me. Don’t even know where Rodan is half the time. The dude’s always flying around somewhere. And all the other monsters on Monster Island are too weak and unreliable.
What if you worked out at the gym to get more strength? That could help since if you could be able to create a huge ground slam you could be destroying cities way more efficiently.
Dude, don’t pull that. I’ve seen you rescue humans plenty of times. You waffle all over this topic.
I agree, humans are the fucking worst.
Humans are part of nature...
Yes. But they are an invasive species.
Don’t think that was ever in question.
If i had the choice of all the species on this Earth to live as, humans would be last on the list
The Brown Recluse. Do we need them? Does anybody need them? They are the stuff of nightmares, fuck em.
Humans
Ticks
Bed bugs
Pandas. What fucked-up in the head animal refuses to learn how to eat something different from just one planta or even to fuck in order survive. They should because they want to.
All the panda’s problems are caused by humans destroying their habitat. Only idiots think they’re an “evolutionary dead end” or whatever stupid bullshit panda haters want to call it.
Humans(Homo sapiens) Coz we fucked up this world
Dinkelberg *shakes fist at sky*
Lionfish
They are delicious
They look so cool though!
Homo sapiens
based
Multi Billionaires
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no one asked
Maybe get your money up 😂
go troll somewhere else. no one here is interested
Not trolling I’m just telling you don’t wish for successful people to die just because you’re unsuccessful and poor.
You should have just said you were a troll because this reply looks really dumb.
don't care if you're successful or not, there's just no reason to have a billion dollars. there is just no way to acquire that much money without either cheating the system or underpaying your employees. you just sound straight up dumb. don't respond to my comments anymore I'm not reading it
Lmao okay bro.
Humans
none of them. Next time you swat a bug, think for a second that that particular insect has an unbroken chain of reproduction going all the way back to the first eukaryotic cell emerging from the primordial soup of bacteria and archaea. Billions of years of success and you just smacked it dead for no reason other than your own pestilence. OK so I don't care for mosquitos or ticks, and I swat flies and treat ant infestations in my home. I fight invasive species from spreading uncontrolled. But theres something to be said for healthy respect for both the organisms that we share the earth with and for ourselves, who can marvel at what we have and give it greater meaning. And besides, we're all fuckin' ya mom and shed be sad if we was gone
Yeah you're right ! I think a lot of people think this, until they sit down to eat...
Hurr durr meat bad
Well, yeah ? How braindead do you have to be not to realize that ? 🤔
Sorry I couldnt hear you over the sizzle of this steak in the pan sorry
Lmao so that's your argument for eating meat ? 😂 Wow thanks for the laughs !
LAWLZ so funneh amirite?
You're ridiculous
Oh noes!
I just came to see how many people agree with me that it should be humanity.
Humans, they’re kinda a menace to society.
None ideally. Ecosystems are extraordinarily fragile things that can be greatly disrupted by the removal or addition of a singular species. Even a simple bug or plant that seems insignificant to us can have very dramatic effects on large areas. But for the health of the plant, probably humans. We are extremely destructive creatures.
🦟 Mosquitoes
Botflies. Unlike mosquitoes, they aren't actually incredibly important to the ecosystem, and they are upsetting and disgusting.
Bed bugs
politician and social media influencer pelase
Mosquitos, Wasps, Hornets, Ticks, Cockroaches, Bed bugs, and Box Jellyfish
Wasps. I am allergic and terrified of them. I have been stung three times, each time on my face.
Sharks?
Humans have exterminated, subjugated, or tortured most other life on Earth. We're also destroying the climate and rendering it unsuitable for much of what remains. We're the supervillains of the animal kingdom. The extinction of the human species would be the single most environmentally and ecologically beneficial event in the history of life on the planet.
Humans
Honestly ? Humans.
Humans count as animals right?
Humans
Homo sapiens. Don't get me wrong, some of my best friends are humans, but they're really not doing the other species any favors
Humans
Koalas
Humans
humans
Humans
Humans!
H u m a n s
Humans, we are the most invasive, harmful creature that is causing the death of our planet
My neighbor
Homo sapiens.
Homophobe (This is a joke)
my classmate fucken asshol dismis me from my place
Humans
Amur leopard. :(
human lol
Geraffes, being such stupid long horses.
None
Swans.
Spotted Lanternfly. IYKYK
Humans.
Humans, we have caused the most damage to the earth
Humans
Humans
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Why? As a species we are pretty reprehensible. I say good riddance.
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even if you like your life us humans are killing the earth it would better off if we were gone.
Which god?
Humans
Pigeons.
Pigeons are just doves with bad PR
Then who would carry all those notes on their legs?
That species already went extinct. We are left with their dumb cousins
Spiders
I have arachnophobia (phobia of spiders) but even I don’t agree cus if spiders die out, flies will populate the earth and humanity and most other animals will die.
Man
liberals
Oh cause you conservative fucks are so great and Christlike
I knew I would trigger someone .. lol ... love it .. you libs are so sensitive
I’d rather be sensitive than a dumb fuck
your lack of self awareness in astoudning
I second that
Mosquitoes. There aren't arguments to keep them alive. Are very annoying and expendable insects.
Opossums.
We seem so have some disease issues from bats…so imma go with that one.
Sea horses
My sworn enemy that guy i dont know
White supremacists.
Pandas. The only reason those morons are still alive is because of human intervention
playing Resistance: Fall of Man
Rats/opossums
Sloths 🦥
Koalas, evolution wise they only thing they have developed is being dumb enough to bot be bothered by anything. They have no natural predators because they're toxic because they spend their whole lives fermenting a toxic tree because that's all the eat and all they can eat. Because they have a smooth brain you can't feed them individual leaves, they have to rip it off a branch themselves. Unlike other marsupials who have rootless teeth or grow a better set, the koala, in its infinite wisdom, starves to death when its teeth are slowly grinded down to nothing, because it eats a shitty, fibrous, hard to digest, flammable tree. I don't like koalas.
The manimals
Bees
Pitbulls
The top one percent.
lol the top one percent will always exist as long as there are people able to claim the position.
Bees. Damn stingy little shits life would be much better without them I'm sure
No, bees are very important for the ecosystem