Joel Sartoreのインスタグラム(joelsartore) - 8月20日 20時08分

​While not every creature in the Photo Ark has the best reputation, almost all play a role in keeping our planet healthy, which is why we are always looking for ways to live side by side with wildlife. Take these mosquitoes for example. Known as the Yellow Fever mosquito, this species is the main carrier of Dengue Fever and Yellow Fever in certain regions of North, Central, and South America. But, mosquitoes can be helpful, as they pollinate certain plants and often help form the base of the food chain. To keep them away, remember that mosquito species like this one will breed in your yard by utilizing unused flowerpots, spare tires, untreated swimming pools and drainage ditches-anything that can hold water long enough for their eggs to hatch and their larvae to develop into adults. By removing these items, or ensuring that they do not create pools of standing water, you can discourage mosquitoes from coming into your space without taking lethal action. Photo taken at the Urban Entomology Lab at the University of Gainesville, Florida. #worldmosquitoday #mosquito #yellowfever #pollinator #PhotoArk #savetogether

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solmaz_.sadeghi Would you want to live side by side with them if you had lost your loved ones to them? If it was that easy to keep them away they wouldn't want to drive them to extinction. Are you suggesting that they drain every source of water near every village dry? Human's only fault is that we're doomed to live on a planet too small for our progress. Had we not had this attitude towards nature and transforming it into what we need, you wouldn't have that camera and we couldn't be discussing this halfway across the world.

markhoefer8 Thank you Joel for your wonderful photography and writing. It’s illuminating to read some of these emotional comments. Though the mosquito is small I’m certain it plays a big part in the stability of many ecosystems. Many birds, bats, fish and spiders depend on them as a food source. They are not the originators of the viruses they carry. Shall we eradicate all dogs because some have rabies?

baani30751 I hate mosquitoes but I definitely agree with this And honestly... it doesn’t matter how much you hate them, and it does not matter if they are harmful, ALL species play a role on this planet and it is their home and we are certainly not the ones to decide if mosquitoes or any other thing whatsoever gets live or not because the MOST harmful thing that happened to our planet is us.

princesssmurfet We are connected to all life forms to kill even one life form off will affects us all be it human, animal or plant each is made to do a job weather we humans like a form or not each help another each living form has good and bad to bring balance its not humans that bring balance its all of us forms working together

shawn_hollahan I doubt those plants rely solely on mosquitoes .... I have debated the value of using science to eradicate their species but this year, after getting Lyme disease from tick bites I’m 100% in support of science ridding this planet of mosquitoes and ticks ... and science is on the case

jaiv1 Mosquitoes main purpose was to regulate the population of humans just like how insects infected by #Cordyceps when they’re over populated. Let’s just be thankful we used science to outsmart nature. But we’ll pay the price soon.

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