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The mosquitoes in question are invasive species in most of the world; there are native species that will build their populations back up. And the other ones don't spread human diseases.

This isn't DDT. It's selective killing of a handful of species when there are huge numbers of other species, native to the area, that can fill the same ecological niche but without the risk to human health.

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I hear you, but there's a difference between eradicating an invasive species and trying to fully exterminate the species entirely, which is what a lot of the discussion in this thread has been about.



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