[bryanlarsen]

The serious proposals to eliminate mosquitoes only propose to eliminate the mosquito species that carry nasty human diseases. If those species were eliminated other mosquito species would quickly expand to replace the eliminated species.

So that's good for the birds, and bad for the humans that want to get rid of all the pesky annoying mosquitoes, not just get rid of mosquito born disease.

[henearkr]

Although you can just make the disease carriers immune to the disease.

In that case, not even need to exterminate any species.

That's typically done by introducing some Wolbachia in their gut.