I worked in Raymond St. Leger’s lab for a short time in college. I can pass along any questions you have, and will send him the link to this discussion.
I don’t understand why mosquitos can develop resistance to chemicals but not a fungal infection, regardless of the delivery method. Can Raymond shed some light on this?
Obviously then, eliminating rice would have catastrophic consequences.
We've driven almost a thousand species to extinction so far, we ought to finally do one that actually deserves it.
Also, most of their lives is spent as aquatic larvae, not flying pests.
The mosquitoes that cause disease in humans are almost uniquely ecologically useless [1]. Particularly in North America, where the Aedes aegypti mosquito is "believed to have arrived to the Americas during the 17th century by ship during the slave trade" [2].