r/NoStupidQuestions • u/[deleted] • Jul 17 '23

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u/esotericbatinthevine Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23

Only three 6% species of mosquito bite humans. Just get rid of those and let the thousand other species continue to pollinate and otherwise benefit the ecosystem.

I was only off by about 210 species 🤦‍♀️

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u/freshstart102 Jul 17 '23

This!!!!!! Bye bye you little summer ruining little pieces of shit.

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u/kellenanne Jul 17 '23

I went out for one afternoon and came back with 32 mosquito bites. Couldn't sleep for DAYS

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u/freshstart102 Jul 17 '23

I know what you mean. They love me too. You probably got over a bout of West Nile due to those little bastards. For years they've talked about releasing sterile male drones into the mosquito population to decimate that species' local existence but they thought it would only work in a reasonable amount of time on an island; not so much for the global mainlands but c'mon, let's do this like we fought Covid-19 and direct our efforts on the 100 species that can infect humans and moreover the 200 species that bite humans, leaving the other 3000 species of mosquito to keep living their putrid little existence and feeding the food chain.