What will happen if lizards became extinct?

Answer 1

The lizards are essential to human beings because they're insectivores and tries to eat some nasty insects pests like mosquitoes, termites, cockroaches, flies, some cicada species, flea, hornet, tick, etc. If all the lizards went extinct, then these nasty insect pests that the lizards usually eat would begin to gradually overpopulate or might even abruptly overpopulate or might even skyrocket. This would affect human beings as we'll suffer from more nasty diseases. The insects might take over the human society which sounds really abhorrent. It might be hard to get rid of these insects pests and they might start to invade the human farmlands, destroy the foods and terribly ruin the human agriculture, which some people might starve to death. If lizards were there, this wouldn't happen because everyday, some insect pests gets killed by the lizards and they help control the insect pests population. Also, some slightly bigger animals like the snakes eat the lizard, so the snakes might begin to starve to death and go extinct and the animals on the higher level of the same food chain would starve and be affected. Technically, animals revolving around the lizard in the food chain would be affected. I think we should save the lizards and not let them go extinct.