GMO Mosquitoes?!?

retrieverman · May 26, 2021

Personally, I wish Bill Gates would stick to computers and leave agriculture and the environment alone.
https://returntonow.net/2021/05/10/...o8xBghXd2UzK7BpBtRIqRC5o3zvngmj_oJ13yoYlG9wIs

jakeman · May 26, 2021

retrieverman said:
Personally, I wish Bill Gates would stick to computers and leave agriculture and the environment alone.
https://returntonow.net/2021/05/10/...o8xBghXd2UzK7BpBtRIqRC5o3zvngmj_oJ13yoYlG9wIs

I'm sure that skeeters have a useful purpose, but like fleas, ticks and termites, I'm not opposed to them going extinct.

It's a shame we killed off the passenger pigeon, but I'd support wiping out the above mentioned insects, along with some more I can't think of right now off the top of my skull.

Dale00 · May 26, 2021

I understand the sentiment but getting rid of mosquitoes would likely have unintended negative consequences. For starters they are an important fish food. There was a time when people tried to eliminate predators to protect deer. Aldo Leopold, the father of modern wildlife management, was in the lead supporting this effort. He reversed course."To keep every cog and wheel is the first rule of intelligent tinkering"

Okie4570 · May 26, 2021

Here come the Purple Martin folks lol.....

retrieverman · May 26, 2021

Dale00 said:
I understand the sentiment but getting rid of mosquitoes would likely have unintended negative consequences. For starters they are an important fish food. There was a time when people tried to eliminate predators to protect deer. Aldo Leopold, the father of modern wildlife management, was in the lead supporting this effort. He reversed course."To keep every cog and wheel is the first rule of intelligent tinkering"

As a whole, I’m kind of on the fence about non natural means (ie poisoning) of controlling predators (coyotes) to protect deer, but in my area where the explosion in the coyote population is encouraged/driven by a feed lot dumping carcasses, something more than shooting and trapping sure seems necessary. :anyone:

Hodrod · May 26, 2021

retrieverman said:
Personally, I wish Bill Gates would stick to computers and leave agriculture and the environment alone.
https://returntonow.net/2021/05/10/...o8xBghXd2UzK7BpBtRIqRC5o3zvngmj_oJ13yoYlG9wIs

I 2nd that....

sh00ter · May 26, 2021

Yes, the unknown consequences down the line are what is never considered...for all we know, this will make the skeeters worse somehow. Plenty of other options than messing with genes.

Dale00 · May 26, 2021

Wolves and mountain lions can be eliminated...coyotes never

MacFromOK · May 26, 2021

Two genetically engineered mosquitoes were set to pounce on a guy asleep in his hammock.

The first said, "Should we eat him here, or carry him down to the creek?"

The second replied, "Let's eat him here. If we carry him back to the creek, the big ones will take him away from us."

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