The mosquito problem is a major problem that plagues all mankind, in real life, mosquitoes are everywhere and everywhere, they can infestation human life at will, and even bring diseases and disasters to human beings.
As a result, some people think that mosquitoes, which are "evil" creatures, should not live on the earth, but is this really the case? If mosquitoes become extinct, what will be the impact on the planet?
Mosquitoes are everywhere
Cockroaches, rats, and mosquitoes, as the "annoying" triumvirate, have always been criticized by humans. Especially after entering July, under the promotion of high temperatures, the speed of food spoilage has been accelerated, so that the mosquito army has an opportunity.
These mosquitoes frequently "visit" kitchen drains, garbage cans, stinking gutters, and after the evening, they will bite people walking along the streets, no matter how much they drive them away. So, what kind of creature is a mosquito and how can it be so annoying?
There is a huge family behind mosquitoes, and there are more than 4,000 species of mosquitoes in the world, and this is only the number of species that have been discovered.
Mosquitoes have a strong ability to adapt to the environment, and their vitality is also very tenacious, and they can adapt to a variety of extreme environments, whether it is a mountain forest, a pond, or a city. In addition, mosquitoes are also very capable of reproducing and are able to reproduce large populations in a short period of time.
The ancients often used "as thin as a mosquito's foot" to metaphorize delicate things, which shows that the mosquito's posture is really chic and light. From the outside, the mosquito has slender "long legs" and a long snout with a sharp protrusion, and although the body of the mosquito is very small, if you look at it under a microscope, you can clearly see that the mosquito body is covered with delicate scales.
In real life, people are often annoyed by the annoying sound of mosquitoes buzzing, but in fact, it is not the sound of mosquitoes, but the sound produced by their rapid flapping of their wings in a short period of time.
In daily life, people hate being bitten by mosquitoes, especially when they feed on human blood and cause itching and discomfort on human skin. But what is not well known is that not all mosquitoes suck human blood, male mosquitoes do not suck blood, they mainly live on plant sap.
Female mosquitoes suck human blood in general, and the reason why they suck human blood is mainly to meet the needs of laying eggs after mating, and female mosquitoes can obtain rich protein from human blood, thereby promoting the development and maturity of mosquito eggs.
In general, when humans feel frequently bitten by female mosquitoes over a period of time, it means that the mosquito population is at its peak. After the female and male mosquitoes have mated in a group, the female mosquitoes, who are responsible for reproduction, will "ambitiously" begin to search for human hosts, stretch out their long beaks and plunge into human veins, greedily sucking blood to provide nutrients and protein for the production of mosquito eggs.
After a wave of blood-sucking operations, the female mosquito successfully laid the eggs, but the human skin suffered.
· What is the use of mosquitoes everywhere? Mosquitoes are unpopular in the human world, and they flutter their wings and buzz in the hot summer, making the already hot and boring summer even more annoying. Mosquitoes seem to have gradually explored the experience of dodging human "slap attacks" in the process of long-term "struggle" with people, and have become more and more cunning while sucking blood.
So some people were depressed and said, what is the use of mosquitoes everywhere that are annoying on the earth?
As mentioned above, male mosquitoes usually do not suck blood, and can survive well by feeding on nectar and plant sap. In the process of sucking nectar, male mosquitoes actually act as pollen transmitters like bees. Frequent nectar feeding by male mosquitoes can improve the success rate of plant pollination, thereby promoting the flourishing of plants between regions.
If male mosquitoes can act as pollen-spreading vectors, aren't female mosquitoes sucking human blood useless? From a medical point of view, female mosquitoes have become a type of medical insect because of their blood-sucking properties, and scientists can turn what is harmful to humans into a good by studying their morphology and bodily mechanisms. In addition, medical insects also play an important role in forensic science, for example, at some homicide scenes, forensic doctors can determine the cause of death and the time of death by studying the blood and body changes of medical insects inside and outside the body.
In addition to this, mosquitoes are a food source for many organisms in the world, such as frogs, mosquito-eating fish, geckos, and some birds, all feed on mosquitoes. It can be said that the more mosquitoes there are in the habitat of mosquito-dependent organisms, the richer the food these organisms have to thrive and expand their populations.
What would be the serious impact if all mosquitoes were wiped out?
There are many types of mosquitoes, and their appearance and habits are not all the same. For example, giant mosquitoes feed on mosquitoes, and giant mosquitoes do not suck blood, they eat harmful mosquitoes to focus on a fast, stable, accurate, and proper mosquito killing weapon. But blood-sucking mosquitoes are not so good, such as the Anopheles sinensis mosquito, which inhabits a dark and filthy environment with a large number of bacterial pathogens, and they specialize in sucking cow blood, and if the blood they feed contains germs, it can spread malaria and filariasis on a large scale.
In addition, the most disgusting thing in summer is the mosquitoes that are constantly buzzing and biting humans.
In people's common concept, mosquitoes are "all evil", if the "all evil" mosquitoes are extinct on the earth, will they be clean and worry-free? From an ecological point of view, these 4,000 species of mosquitoes, as a part of the earth's ecosystem, are very likely to cause global ecological imbalance if they become extinct and disappear, and then affect local areas from a wide range, causing local ecosystem imbalance.
If mosquitoes become extinct, species such as frogs and geckos, which mainly depend on mosquitoes, will lack food sources, which in turn will affect the upper layers of the food chain, thus triggering the "broken window effect".
The ecosystem is an organic whole, and the absence of any part will inevitably lead to imbalance. However, mosquitoes transmitting diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and Zika virus are at stake, and humans have to take strong measures to control the rampant mosquitoes and prevent them from spreading the disease to human society.
As an important part of the food chain, mosquitoes cannot be easily eliminated, but human beings can effectively control the mosquito population through various advanced medical means and ecological holistic control methods to prevent them from invading human life.