Being Green - 13 July 2018
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Of What Use Are Mosquitoes?
Troubled by an out-of-season mosquito last night I mused on the necessity or otherwise of these creatures in the world, and remembered the wry Ogden Nash couplet, “God in His wisdom made the fly, and then forgot to tell us why.”
Do not fear, we’re not getting into creationism here. But I did wonder, how do mosqitoes fit into the scheme of things, or more environmentally correctly, what about the ecology? Do mosquitoes matter and if so, why?
Troubled by an out-of-season mosquito last night I mused on the necessity or otherwise of these creatures in the world, and remembered the wry Ogden Nash couplet, “God in His wisdom made the fly, and then forgot to tell us why.”
Do not fear, we’re not getting into creationism here. But I did wonder, how do mosqitoes fit into the scheme of things, or more environmentally correctly, what about the ecology? Do mosquitoes matter and if so, why?
