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If we could engineer and exterminate all ticks and mosquitos we'd all be so happy.
Mosquitos are pollinators.
Not all mosquitoes bite humans. If you exterminated the biting ones, the non-biting ones would just fill that same ecological niche.
The males don't bite, but the females need that sweet protein from blood to grow the next generation. Exterminating all the females (the biting ones) would end the whole population.
The non-biting variety are called "blind mosquitoes" or "midges". Their females don't suck blood.