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Actually, we should wipe out only the 200-odd species that feed on blood. We can leave be the other ~1800 species.

Some biologists say we could wipe out all mosquitoes and it would make little difference to the ecology; there are enough substitute prey items. But I don't even care about that. Genocide them now!

> If it is really so important to people that they survive...

I very much like where you're going with this...

> then we could put some on an island as a kind of zoo.

wait, what??

The mosquitos, I think he meant.

Well, the people who like mosquitoes can go, too.

I was trying to be sly here by being ambiguous, but yes I mean the mosquitoes.

Ah, thank you..

Then again, they have wings; and, sea levels both rise and fall...

Sure. We don't need extreme specificity though: I'd be content with wiping out the whole family if that's what it takes to hit the ones that prey on humans.