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Are mosquitos useful in anyway?

Is there any utilization of them? Atleast do any other insect eat them? Like do spiders eat them?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Spiders eat them. Also, dragonflies lay their eggs in the same waters as mosquitoes and their larva in turn eat the mosquito larva. So yeah, I'd say they're a pretty useful part of the food chain.

  • DelK
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    They are a conversation piece. (P.S. Purple martins do not eat them. Those birds fly in the sun in daylight and mosquitoes stay out of sunlight. Bats do eat them by the TON.) Makes one wonder about the utility of some of the things in the world.

  • doc
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    That is a very good question. I know that purple martins eat mosquitoes but I don't know about any other insects. Once again good question.

  • 1 decade ago

    Strengthening the human immune system. If they have West Nile or some other disease, and the human can't handle it, they can die. If they're dead they can't reproduce, and only the genetically fit will live. This is called survival of the fittest. The elimination of the weak genes is called evolution.

    GO DARWIN!

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  • 1 decade ago

    They are part of the food chain, and are eaten by birds and other insects and amphibians.

  • 1 decade ago

    other than spiders ants eat them

    Source(s): personal experiance hehe
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    bird food, see birds going crazy by ponds

    oh and i guess fish food

    shame there are too many of their predators killed by what kills them

  • 1 decade ago

    better question: Is there any way for humans to make the mosqios extinct!?

  • ceprn
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    They spread disease and help control population?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Very useful for spreading diseases LOL

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