[acallahan]

Some interesting prior discussion in this older comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15929339

My understanding is that out of 3,500 mosquito species, only about 40 transmit malaria. Most of what I've read from experts implies they're not sure that mosquitoes play any biologically important role at all, and it seems like if there is some role (other than killing humans), the other 99% of non-eradicated mosquito species could fill in that gap.

In my (decidedly non-expert) opinion, that's good enough to start making moves towards eradicating the mosquito-causing species.