Mosquito was a word that actually referred to the unit of family, meaning that the mosquito family was as big as the felidae, the cat family, or canidae, the dog family. Just like how lions and cheetahs were part of the cat family, there were a huge variety of insects in the mosquito family. They were divided into forty-three different genuses and were then divided into about three thousand five hundred species. Of course, these genuses and species could change with the development of genetics as the classification of insects was ambiguous and every scientist had different arguments. One thing that was for certain was that there were only about ten species that sucked on human blood.0

“There’s actually less than I thought.”0

—Yes. Humanity already made countless species go extinct after the industrial revolution. Nothing will change even if you add ten more species to that. I do not understand why humans are worrying about the disruption of the ecosystem when they are killing mosquitoes.3

“Because the impact of extinction can be larger when the organism is at the bottom of the ecosystem.”0

—Of course, if you wipe out an organism like bees, humanity will not be able to overcome the repercussions and will collapse. But not mosquitoes. There are countless insects that can replace its role.1

This was an extremely polarized problem between scientists who studied insect ecology for decades. In fact, they actually did a mass debate at Silver Spring, and it had totally gone to the dogs. The...0