Kill all the rats in the world?

what would happen if they engineered a insect that layed eggs in rats which turned into grubs which then killed the host and found more rats to lay eggs in and so on.


Would this kill all the rats and if so what would happen?Kill all the rats in the world?
You will be making snakes famished and they will attack other animals. It will disturb the food chain. Engineered animals have to be used judiciously as there might be unforeseen repercussions.Kill all the rats in the world?
I think it would be great to have no rats thay are just yucky animals and they give me the heeby geebies.





But it would probably do something to the eco system. so you might have to come up with a soft fluffy non disgusting alternative to rats to fill the hole you made.
It would eventually kill all the rats %26amp; kill other animals.
It would have an immense impact on the food chain. What a silly idea.
Given their rapid breeding policies, rats generate masses of random mutations that sometimes give rise to immunities to otherwise deadly levels of poisons. In some European urban rat populations hardly any available extermination products work effectively. Killing 95% of them off is usually do-able, but getting the other 5% is another matter.





The same processes would give rise to immunities against parasites, and Mr surviving rats' love for Mrs rat would soon result in the pattering of many tiny feet.
To wipe out any single species is probably a bad idea because it could have a serious knock on effect
It would not kill all the rats. As the number of rats declined, so would the number of your engineered insects, unless they branched out and started laying their eggs in some other species, such as humans. Biological control, such as you suggest, will reduce a population but will not wipe it out, unless it is supplemented with other methods. Look up Integrated Pest Management (IPM), if you are interested.
all animals would die
DO you mean rats rats, or rats as humans, get rid of them.. lol
In the unlikely situation that all rats died, other animals would take over the ecological niche that rats inhabit. That is: other animals would take over the places where rats tend to live and reproduce, eating the food they used to eat etc. As rats are so adaptable, we would then be overrun in many habitats by other creatures which, perhaps, would be more of a problem than rats (e.g. insects, birds, other mammals etc.).





Rats perform a useful function by cleaning up a lot of debris and rubbbish produced by humans. Get rid of one part of the food chain and you will affect all other parts.
Rats serve a useful purpose and killing them all is a bad idea. Outside of the urban setting, which is unnatural to rats, they are like vultures, they consume dead and rotting things, animal or vegetable. They are nature's cleaners.
good imagination...
cats would be sad :{
go go kill 'em