Why do you think God created mosquitos

[Texas Diesel]

The Bible says everycreature God created is good, so what do mosquitos do that is good?

 

[illflem]

They're food for birds, fish and other animals, without them many other species would cease to exsist. Like bees and other insects, male mosquitoes pollinate plants as they collect their nectar.



Regardless of the "good" they do the fact remains that mosquitoes are the most dangerous animal in the world. Forget about poisonous snakes or grizzly bears or sharks. Mosquitoes kill an estimated 2-3 million people a year, most of them children.

 

[Texas Diesel]

Originally posted by illflem

Like bees and other insects, male mosquitoes pollinate plants as they collect their nectar.

I thought they all drank blood of other animals

 

[Steve M]

Now I feel all warm and fuzzy about mosquitoes. So why do cock-roaches exist?

 

[illflem]

I know you're not ready for this, but



1) cockroaches are ecologically very important and



2) we have only ourselves to blame.



Cockroaches are recyclers. They're very good at cleaning things up they eat just about anything they can get in mouths. In the wild, they scavenge, gobbling down dead plants, dead animals, animal wastes, chowing down and pooping them out so other organisms can use the nutrients.



According to fossils cockroaches were much more prevalent back in the dinosaur days when things were hot and humid, lots of rotting stuff around. The place was swarming with them.

Humans have re-created just about the perfect cockroach habitat. They keep their houses warm all year round. Except for in tropical areas you won't find many cockroaches living outside, they like to hang with humans. There are plenty of places to hide, under the stove, in your boots, in the cereal box.

And face it humans are basically slobs. They leave good stuff to eat lying all over the place. What more could a cockroach ask for?

 

[Steve M]

Sounds logical... I wonder why then they're so feared by so many. I for one get the skin crawling creeps when I'm in a room with one or more. Spiders and snakes and rodents don't bother me a bit to work with. I once unfolded a set of wiring diagrams on a job and felt a tickle. I turned my hand over and had a huge black house spider on the back of my hand. While my helper made the most hidious sound I ever heard as he jumped up and ran out of the machine room, I simply shook him off my hand and guided him back under the controller where he could continue his job of killing cockroaches. If a cockroach gets on me, don't tell me white boys can't break dance! And for some reason, cockroaches love to fly over to say hello. I saw a professional wrestler at his condo on the beach one day who wouldn't go into his garage to get his car out because there were several big red cockroaches on the walls. The maintenance man had to spray them first. They do bite but they're not poisonous. Why are they so scarey?

 

[Tony T.]

I guess every one has there own phobia about different insects or retiles. I know out at work I've seen it get pretty serious at times people clowning around with some one that is afraid of a certain insect or reptile. The problem we had out at work for a while was the Brown Recluse Spider invasion at the welders shop it got pretty bad there for awhile. Had one of the operators spend about a week in the hospital from being bitten. Mosquito's may be necessary for nature,but they're a pain in the a$$ to me.

 

[midwestdually]

once again... females causing problems with other people

 

[j-miller]

Yep..... blame the females. . ... ... . john

 

[Turbo Horseman]

Most bugs creep me out [shudder], 8 months of the year we don't have much of a bug problem up here.

 

[Morphious]

I just figured mosquites were the first cut of lawyers and politicians.....



Morph.

 

[Peter Campbell]

What is the difference between lawyers and mosquitos?????







One is a blood sucking parasite with no use to anyone- the other is an insect.

 

[Tony T.]

Not only having to deal with those mosquitos, we also got them cottonpicken fire ants to deal with here in Texas.

 

[Hohn]

I was beaten to the punch.



The reason we have mosquitoes and cockroaches is so that we could make analogies and jokes about politicans and lawyers.



justin