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Mosquitoes can carry and transmit disease to animals and humans. Explain how the cricket frog plays an important role in limiting the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses like West Nile virus and malaria.

Predict the long-term effects of these limiting factors on the cricket frog population in the pond ecosystem.

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The crickets and mosquitoes play an important role in limiting the spread of mosquito-borne illness like West Nile virus and Malaria because since the frogs eat mosquitoes the frogs eat them and decrease the number of mosquitoes so when the number of mosquitoes decreases the illness decreases too.

Hope this helps and you can add words or take out of the short paragraph I wrote above
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