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I was born and raised in Minnesota. Vast amounts of mosquitoes are natural to me. I am also more tasty than the average person. So when I came across this article the idea struck me like a thunderbolt.
"They [mosquitoes] don't occupy an unassailable niche in the environment," says entomologist Joe Conlon, of the American Mosquito Control Association in Jacksonville, Florida. "If we eradicated them tomorrow, the ecosystems where they are active will hiccup and then get on with life. Something better or worse would take over."
So let's hear it! No mosquitoes! Assume mosquitoes die out say sometime in the last glacial period. While a number of the comments to the article sound cautionary notes (or ugly ones) assume the premise of the article: a minor ecological hiccup.
How do human societies develop in the absence of the mosquito but everything else remains the same?