I hate mosquitoes but they do have s valid slot in the food web.

Ticks on the other hand can fuck off and die.

You wouldn’t.

Something something the animals that do eat them will die and the whole ecosystem will collapse.

Or you’re Pleakley from Lilo and Stitch ¯\(ツ)/¯

I hate mosquitoes too, but why do we keep insisting on changing/eliminating other creatures to suit us? Let's modify OURSELVES to smell like citronella, or better yet, let's make ourselves grow a thick coat of luscious, too-thick-for -mosquitoes fur! That should be relatively easy, and it would come with other benefits too.

We can’t do that because then mosquito bites will become extinct.