Yellow Fever Mosquito

Aedes aegypti


Growing up in West Africa and then in the Southern United States, I am quite familiar with the wretched mosquito but I don't know if this variety has ever come across me. Regardless, I must say I'm unimpressed. You know that you as a species have made some terrible life decisions when to distinguish you from your other parasite cousins, man must name you after a disease. It would be nice to think that there might have been other Fever Mosquitoes out there and this one had distinctive yellow markings but that is not the case and so I continue to be underwhelmed.

The EoL does have some fine praise for this vile source of plague by noting that it shares one of man's nobler qualities, namely Adaptability. The Yellow Fever Mosquito will make its home anywhere and everywhere like a winged pioneer colonizing your house and then going out to harvest your precious hemoglobin. It almost inspires a sense of pride in this jewel of the sky until one remembers that it is a cursed vector of disease and the more oil we dump in open bodies of water to kill off their numbers, the better the world will be.

In the end, they are unsavoury for consumption, unpleasing to the eye and would not make for any decent sort of hat so I find no use for them.

I judge it: Worthy of extinction (with the caveat that they might prove useful if we could somehow use pheromones or cosmic radiation to have them target our enemies)