Replies

The eco-minded resort takes its power from solar energy and coconut oil and is ventilated by a seawater air-conditioning system. Mosquitoes will never be a problem since the private island is also said to be home to an innovative mosquito eradication project that has even brought in researchers from Oxford University.

Hmmm. How can the resort be "eco-minded" yet eradicate mosquitos... and with them any organism dependent on them for food, such as birds, amphibians, minnows and terrestrial and aquatic insects... or as a host, such as microscopic parasites that plague even skeeters, or certain plants that benefit or even rely on male mosquitos as pollinators, such as certain orchids?

“Hmmm. How can the resort be “eco-minded” yet eradicate mosquitos... and with them any organism dependent on them for food, such as birds, amphibians, minnows and terrestrial and aquatic insects... or as a host, such as microscopic parasites that plague even skeeters, or certain plants that benefit or even rely on male mosquitos as pollinators, such as certain orchids? “

There was a very well research article published several years ago that disagreed with your assessment.

There are effectively no plants or animals that require mosquitoes. There are animals that eat lots of them but they can and will happily eat other things if mosquitoes’ are not present. There are some plants that male mosquitoes pollinate but other things will pollinate them as well. The article found that they play almost no exclusive role in nature in a positive sense. The biologist conducting this investigation were actually amazed at how little positive impact parasitic insects had on the environment.

The article concluded by saying (I am paraphrasing) that if all parasitic insects (mosquitoes, fleas, ticks and the like) disappeared they would basically not be missed with any emotion except relief. They actually play very little positive role in the natural order, but bring misery, disease, plague and discomfort in huge measure wherever they appear (Much like socialist)

If you could eliminate mosquitoes large parts of the world’s human and animal residents would bow down and worship you as god. The rest would acknowledge you as God’s servant.

If this island can kill every mosquitoes they need to export that technology.