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If you could exterminate one species without consequence what would it be?

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So fucking gross. Would be perfectly fine if they did not exist.

Just heard yesterday that an apartment in my building has some. Am worried...
 
Des0lar said:
All forms of mosquitoes. Worthless scum.
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This is it. There's a scientific study on mosquitoes and it shows even if they go extinct, it wouldn't have a huge impact on the wildlife. That's why scientists are engineering mosquitoes that can't breed and have them pass their genes to other normal mosquitoes to kill off their population.
 
You couldn't just say the name, you had to show a picture???
Waterbugs. But my real answer is none. What's wrong with some of you? Nature is delicate enough as it is, the thought shouldn't be entertained. Someone is willing to try and end up causing a catastrophe.
 
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This is it. There's a scientific study on mosquitoes and it shows even if they go extinct, it wouldn't have a huge impact on the wildlife. That's why scientists are engineering mosquitoes that can't breed and have them pass their genes to other normal mosquitoes to kill off their population.
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If they can't breed how do they pass their genes?
 
Humans. If I can't say that then Mosquito's. I don't think they serve any actual purpose, unlike say, Spiders, which are good for a few things but people just don't like them.
 
Spiders. I just can't fucking stand them. I might be more terrified of monkeys and other primates, but I don't come across them too often in day-to-day life, so spiders it is.
 
Mosquitos. Like mentioned above, I've read that they could be exterminated w/o messing up the balance of things -- so this is something that needs to happen.
 
Everyone says mosquitoes because they spread disease, but OP is asking "without consequence", so it doesn't even matter. People will still get sick.

Now, if the OP meant "without bad consequences", then I agree. Only good can come from the total extinction of mosquitoes.
 
Don't have a problem with skeeters or roaches. But I hate flies. No matter how clean you keep your house, they are always trying to find a way in.
 
Mosquitos. Turns out, eliminating them, repercussions and all, would actually do more good than harm, with most species who depend on mosquitos as a food source able to find other sources of food.

If they could be eliminated and I still had a choice on what to eliminate without repercussions, I'd say... Panda bears. Even though they're cute, a lot of focus is put on saving this worthless (but adorable) species just because they're cute, when a more concerted effort could be put toward important dwindling pollinators without a poster-boy endangered species in the way.

Finally, if you refuse to accept that; wasps/hornets. They're ineffective pollinators and they just perpetuate people hating important things like honey bees.
 
Mosquitoes. Mosquito bites are the worst. Saving the lives of millions of people with that whole malaria thing is also a decent bonus.
 
Des0lar said:
All forms of mosquitoes. Worthless scum.
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Considering how my current accommodation seems to be a magnet for them, I'm inclined to agree.

I'm surprised they even bite me. You'd think that warfarin-enriched blood would be poisonous to them.

The problem I have with exterminating an entire species like that is how nature would fill the void. People say there'd be no consequences, but I'm sure the world would compensate for them in some weird-ass way. Either that or a few hundred years from now some space probe would cruise into the solar system and be all "I'm gonna hit up the earth to talk to some mosquitos" and in the process of doing so destroy the world.
 
Stinkbugs. As others have said mosquitoes is the obvious and correct answer; but fuck stinkbugs seriously. Their numbers are only getting worse.
 
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