Mosquitos—Very Good?

Answers with Ken Ham

This is Ken Ham, author of Divided Nation: Cultures in Chaos and a Conflicted Church.

God’s original creation was “very good.” Living in a fallen world, it’s hard to imagine everything—including mosquitos—as “very good.”

In our fallen world, they’re pests that can spread deadly diseases. What good purpose could they serve?

Well, mosquitos are excellent pollinators. They largely feed on nectar and spread pollen from plant to plant.

And not all mosquitos feed on blood. Males survive exclusively on plants and microbes. It’s the females in some species that eat blood to get proteins for reproduction. You know, before the fall, these proteins came from somewhere else.

In the original creation even mosquitos were “very good.”

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