alt Hacker NewsI wonder if at scale this will lead to mosquito farms or to mosquito extinction in nature.
Of course I suspect it will be the former but the latter is way funnier.
We've been stuck with these insects for a while. It would be so funny that the solution to get rid of them was in fact the same that wiped out many species before: over exploitation of natural resources.
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thaumasiotes • today at 9:58 AM
I mean, ideally it would lead to both. We can wipe out the farmed mosquitos when we find something else that produces similar tubes.
Our most successful efforts at wiping out wild mosquitos, though, don't produce useful corpses. So I don't think it's particularly realistic for high industrial demand to lead to mosquito extinction anyway.
Breeding mosquitos is way easier than capturing them.