Almost no support for the thesis of &quot;bad things will happen if we wipe out mosquitoes&quot; other than &quot;We don&#x27;t know what will happen.&quot;<p>On the flip side, we <i>do</i> know what will happen if the Aedes aegypti, Anopheles, etc... is allowed to continue to exist - 100s of thousands of people a <i>year</i> will die.<p>I wonder how the author would feel about keeping mosquitoes around &quot;just in case&quot;, if hundreds of thousands of her neighbors were dying every year.<p>And guess what, if, for some very, very bizarre reason it turns out that Aedes aegypti&#x2F;Anopheles was a super important species, there is zero difficulty in breeding and releasing billions of them back into the wild in very short order.