honestly any insect that primarily feeds on blood would be good to go.
- mosquitoes
- bed bugs
- tics
- fleas
screw all of those things
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Particularly disease-carrying mosquitos have been assessed to be unimportant to ecosystems. Although, it's worth noting that outside of those few species, they don't primarily feed on blood, but rather nectar. They take blood once during their reproductive cycle.
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Definitely mosquitoes.
The bats would miss them.
Any change to the biodiversity on our planet will have a negative effect. What is a pest to you is food for another species, or a pollinator, or any of dozens of valuable purposes.
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The poisonous (not venomous) grasshoppers that eat plants to death but nothing eats them.
Really it is people, though.
Parasitic worms
I haven't vomited in years, but the concept of those things makes me feel like I'm gonna
Mosquitos. Also bedbugs. Any insect that feeds on blood really
Whatever shit's been preserved in the permafrost that's bound to come back.
Mosquitos are the largest killer of people in history. Getting rid of them would have a massive positive effect.
Same for me, mosquitoes. Those pesky little buggers!
None. And weβre hurting badly from the ones that have already been removed.