It's technically the parasites that they carry though.
My first thought too.
i would give the credit to the malaria!I recently read somewhere that out of the 100 billion or so people that ever lived approximately 50 billion died of malaria, so the mosquito seems like the right answer.
And that's just a byproduct of us living our daily lives.
The planet and life on it have survived far worse cataclysms than human-induced climate change. We are killing many species on it, including ourselves but not the planet. Thinking we can destroy the planet is another of mankind's delusions of grandeur. The planet will be fine, life will be fine in the long run, we just won't be. ;-)
i mean in the context of being deadly, nothing is deadly without something to kill, thus something else has to exist, thus i feel that needing a host in order to propagate is only a natural extension of requiring other creatures be presentBacteria (if viruses don't count). You could argue the protazoan parasite that causes malaria but it can't exist without hosts so it loses points. Bacteria will survive whatever humanity can throw at this planet and will be there to mop up the survivers when society eventually collapses.
The planet and life on it have survived far worse cataclysms than human-induced climate change. We are killing many species on it, including ourselves but not the planet. Thinking we can destroy the planet is another of mankind's delusions of grandeur. The planet will be fine, life will be fine in the long run, we just won't be. ;-)
I recently read somewhere that out of the 100 billion or so people that ever lived approximately 50 billion died of malaria, so the mosquito seems like the right answer.