What Happens When Mosquito Extinct | New
Mosquitoes, being this one is probably one of the most hated human crtures of the rth, called also disturbing and also sprd the disse. but of the many positive effects of this mosquito apparently a big thing could happen if mosquitoes eradied from the face of the rth.
Of the more than 3,500 species of mosquitoes in the world, there are rlly only hundreds of species that infect humans. However, it can not be denied, mosquitoes become one of the main enemies, because transmit ddly disses.
Various efforts ever undertaken by humans to eliminate mosquitoes, especially certain types that transmit the disse. Most of it is still limited resrch in the laboratory, but the outlook is promising.
One of them was made by a tm from the University of Oxford. etic engineering is a tm that has crted a male mosquitoes if married female mosquitoes, the mosquitoes will produce wingless.
Although able to bite, the mutant mosquitoes can not fly, because it does not have wings. Because female mosquitoes have to fly to be able to drink the blood, eventually mosquitoes can not breed, and then become extinct.
With the same technology, a tm of University of Arizona also never produced anophales mosquitoes resistant malaria virus. Although not intended to exterminate mosquitoes, it also aims to eliminate malaria.
Had mutant mosquitoes that could be mass produced and relsed into the nature and causes of extinction, such as the impact of what would happen?
Quoted from Nature, the grtest impact of the extinction of mosquitoes will occur in tundra habitat (ice field), the north pole. In a place that's home to the biggest and Impiger Aedes mosquito species Aedes Nigripes, migratory birds will be reduced by 50 percent, due to the reduced one of the favorite food of the bird.
Migrating animals that others will also be affected, among other similar caribou or reindeer. Thousands of caribou that were previously avoiding mosquito bites will invade the tundra region, followed by the wolves who are the main predators of the caribou.
Species of mosquito-ting fish, Gambusia affinis also endangered, if the mosquitoes are gone. Extinction of the fish is a little more course will also have an impact on the food chain that occurs in freshwater.
Moreover, larvae or mosquito larvae also play a role in the decomposition of organic waste. While in a puddle of water, the larvae get nutrients to grow from the remains of rotting plants.
However, many of the judge, the impact it had on the ecosystem, comparable to the dth rate in humans from mosquito bites. Malaria, for example, recorded swallow 247 million people around the world ch yr.
Moreover, experts believe, the various types of insectivores (insect ters) will not be too difficult to adapt to switch prey on other insects if it were no mosquitos. As for the decomposition of organic waste, the role of mosquito larvae is not indispensable because there are many other types of decomposers.
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