mosquito problem?

[Murray Fletcher]

Heard an interesting seminar some years ago about biting midges in Iceland. The adults are a real problem for a burgeoning tourism industry based on trout fishing. However, elimination of the biting midges would eliminate the midge larvae which are the primary food source for the trout - and hence eliminate the trout fishing industry. This,
naturally, would remove the need to control the adult midges in the first place.

Murray

Amanda Neill wrote:

> This is clearly a situation of just enough mosquitoes, and far too many people.  What are some good ways to take care of human over-population?
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> I feel I should add that mosquitoes are important bat-food, well as all the other uses previously listed on this string.  Almost nothing (wild) relies on people as a primary food source.  Thank goodness mosquitoes are around to remind us that we ARE part of the food-chain, and must answer to the same natural laws as every other organism.
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> Amanda Neill
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> Scott Magic wrote:
> Of course this is the question everybody asks - and SO WHAT if we just eliminate them ?
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> What can we say about that, including of course philosophical responses ?
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> Thanks,
>
> Scott Rawdin
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Dr Murray J. Fletcher
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