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		sadkingbilly on Nov 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We Can Eradicate Malaria Within a Generation Mosquitoes are a food source for many animals, including: fish, birds, spiders, and bats. Maybe those animals could find something else to eat, but there sure are a lot of mosquitoes - imagine how many get eaten.

stavros on Nov 3, 2014 [–]

Are you sure? An article I read said that mosquitoes are so lean that they aren't even worth the energy expenditure of hunting them.

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