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by squimmy 3586 days ago
> What good have mosquitoes ever done?

They are apparently an important pollinator of certain flowers, including the blunt-leaf orchid.

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So then the question becomes, what good has the blunt-leaf orchid ever done? However in my brief research it looks like other insects do pollinate the orchid also. It also grows far north so would not be affected by wiping out the mosquitoes that cause zika in the south.