You're not alone: "Recall Mao's policy to eliminate sparrows caused 50 mil to die of famine."

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1254172926829568007?s=20

No, there are two of us.

I know mosquitos are pollinators. Their larvae are also very good at cleaning water - they eat algae, plankton, fungi, and other microorganisms.

My guess is that if they succeed in collapsing the mosquito population, we will see a meteoric rise of something else.