Why did god make Mosquitos, ticks, and leeches? (page 4)

jgnat

Some birds who feed on the mosquito:

Swallows such as the tree swallow, violet-green swallow, barn swallow, eastern kingbird chickadees, house wrens, gray catbirds, bluebirds, vireos, warblers, orioles, tanagers, sandpipers, killdeer, plovers, yellow-rumped warbler, and even some of the sparrows such as the chipping sparrow and the white-crowned sparrow. Bats are also very effective mosquito eliminators. A single bat may eat 4,000 mosquitos in one night.

http://fwp.mt.gov/news/specialFeatures/talesAndTrails/archive/070811.html

Mosquitoes carry deadly diseases like malaria, yellow fever and the West Nile virus. In 2010 there were 660,000 malaria deaths.

A wag once said if we got rid of the top five vectors of disease distribution, we could wipe out the top killer diseases. This would be rats, mice, flies mosquitoes, and....children.

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Satanus: " Geez.Those skeeters sound pretty cool. Maybe, i could get a couple for pets. Too bad, they only live for a week:( "

Think bigger, S. INTESTINAL WORMS! They'll stay with you as long as you live. They're very loyal to their owners.

cofty

Why do people think the natural world is about us?

Bugs were here before Homo sapiens and if we ever become extinct we can be sure bugs will go on thriving without us.

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I think God created mosquitos, ticks and leeches just to piss us off.

Glander

The program of the Mosquito District Assembly, held this year in the everglades.

Saturday keynote address "Why did God create humans?" (Brother Sucknozzle from Alaska will be the guest speaker.)

"What you need to know about those weired purple lights at human gatherings"

"What is DDT ?, and why we should avoid it."

"Go for the back of the neck...sweet!"

jgnat

Ankles, between the toes...

Hey! Spring is so cold here it kills the mosquitoes! Bug-free summers, sweet!

prologos

I dont want swallows to starve, but why do mosquito bites have to

ITCH

and transmit the deadly parasites and did long before the talking snake event?

a good thing, creative evolution got out of hand, God?

Xanthippe

Not to mention the hundreds of children that die every year from Malaria. Oxfam are always asking for money to buy mosquito nets for them because they save lives. It's a terrible disease and a terrible thing to watch your child die.

God had an off day when he created mosquitos? Or life evolved, take your pick.

Also google river blindness to find out about another bug that lives in rivers and sends hundreds blind every year.

Why did god make Mosquitos, ticks, and leeches?

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