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You should lie out here and take a nap (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Maybe their diet would shift but a lot of animals eat ticks. Frogs and toads, many smaller birds like warblers and probably house sparrows and robins, chickens love them, and of course opposums and mice.

Similar for mosquitos. I see the house sparrows around here catching mosquitos all the time. I'm pretty sure dragon flies feed heavily on them too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Fish are natural predators of mosquitos.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Opossums eat more ticks around where I live than anything. I’m in Virginia so we have all the shitty deer ticks with Lymes. It’s a big problem.

I imagine anyone living where mosquitoes have malaria or any of the other crappy viruses wouldn’t mind them being extinct.