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And don't say humans, too obvious, too cynical.

I'd delete mosquitos.

The only negative effect I can think of would be fish won't have mosquito larvae to eat and their diet would have to shift.

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[–] Bebo@literature.cafe 3 points 1 year ago

Same for me, mosquitoes. Those pesky little buggers!

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I feel like a reasonable but controversial answer to this is cows

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[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obviously worms in general are needed, but any big group of mainly parasitic ones I could happily delete without a second thought. Ideally let's also destroy any records of their existence.

[–] ArtieShaw@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could do without those hammerhead fuckers. They're invasive in our area, eat the regular earthworms, and really hard to kill.

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[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Australians would say emus

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Flies

They are so annoying

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[–] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I had to choose one I’d choose one of the ones that’s already going extinct so I could disrupt as few ecosystems as possible

Alternately, is there an invasive species that harms the ecosystems it invades and doesn’t have a non-invasive counterpart? Maybe domesticated cats?

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[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[–] jacktherippah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised nobody said humans.

[–] Evia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
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