And don't say humans, too obvious, too cynical.
I'd delete mosquitos.
The only negative effect I can think of would be fish won't have mosquito larvae to eat and their diet would have to shift.
Bed bugs.
Positive outcome would be no more having to burn contaminted possessions (or wash them in very hot water many times).
Yeah I think any human-specialized parasite is an easy choice. Head lice? Fuck em.
Ah yes, the condition of being a landlord, a completely immutable state of being.
Deleting all mosquitoes would have a significant impact on the environment, many birds and spiders mainly prey on them. Delete just mosquitoes that bite humans. It's a much narrower range and wouldn't affect the environment as much.
I hate to say it, but getting rid of mosquitos would probably have bigger consequences than that. The females are the only ones sucking blood, the males on the other hand help pollinate plants, exterminating them could potentially affect our food production lines...
... But not gonna lie I'd still genocide the fuckers, ecological damage be damned.
Only the females of a tiny fraction of species, and only when they need to produce eggs, stuck blood.
Minimize their numbers as much as you want, but that won't stop me from having to deal with them in almost every single day of my life.
Canadian Geese, the animal that Canada stored all its rage inside and sent to battle the United States
Cockroaches... as far as I'm aware, they don't contribute anything to the eco system, they're just pests.
Unfortunatelly, not even a nuclear war can erradicate them 😒.
They are extremely important for getting rid of dead things. Everything contributes to the ecosystem, except invasive species, OP's premise is impossible to begin with.
Like really? Even pest cocroaches, they eat dead flesh 🤨? Cuz I thought they only went after good food (not rotten).
They don't just eat dead animals, they also eat dead plant matter. Humans decided that some animals are "pests" because they don't like having them around for one reason or another.
My main concern is hygene, nothing more (spread of jerms and viruses)... other than that, I have no problem living with all sorts of insects.
I was in Egypt once and stayed in a trailer in the middle of the desert (long story 😂). Anyway, the trailer was kinda dusty, so I decided to clean it a little bit. I pull the bed, a big fucking spider underneath it... OK, I guess we're not cleaning inder the bed 😂. Pull a drawer, a scorpio inside... OK... so, that about sums up my cleaning for the day 🤣.
My point is, I wasn't scared of them. They attack only of you do stuff to them, you stay out of their way, they won't do amything to you ☺️.
One of the proposed explanations for the recent explosion in bed bug populations is the fact that pesticides have become more effective at eliminating cockroaches, which are predators of bed bug eggs
Hm 🤔... you know, I've seen roaches in the bathroom as well, and I always wondered what they were doing there, like there's no food there. Apparently, if food is scarse, they'll eat almost anything, dead human skin included.
In that case, I guess they're not that bad. Sure, they should be regulated, cuz of deseases and all that, but living in a bubble is not good as well... for the immune system I mean.
OK, you've convinced me, I'm giving up on the roaches 😂.
Mosquitos are important pollinators and have a very important place at the bottom of the food chain.
Surely something else can be eaten. And there are many species of mosquito that do not eat human blood. I think we can nuke the species that does and still get by.
Perhaps I'm under informed here.
I think we can nuke the species that does and still get by.
I think people in China had similar ideas about sparrows... Nature is immensely complex and I can't think of a single instance in which human Intervention improved anything at all
That's fair. I'm entirely uninformed on the sparrows but I do understand nature is an endlessly complex system which we do not and probably can not ever truly understand. Not trying to be absolutist.
But I do wish death on every blood sucking mosquito.
The bats would miss them.
Any change to the biodiversity on our planet will have a negative effect. What is a pest to you is food for another species, or a pollinator, or any of dozens of valuable purposes.
Whatever shit's been preserved in the permafrost that's bound to come back.
Mosquitos are the largest killer of people in history. Getting rid of them would have a massive positive effect.
None. And we’re hurting badly from the ones that have already been removed.
