Proliferation of mosquitoes articles
-
Los Angeles unleashes a new weapon in its fight against mosquitoes: More mosquitoes
In Los Angeles, those who wage war on mosquitoes are adding a weapon to their arsenal: more mosquitoes. The Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District on Thursday launched a pilot program to release tens of thousands of irradiated, lab-raised mosquitoes into the local environment. These mosquitoes are all male and have been sterilized by the radiation, so the hope is that they will find wild female mates and impregnate them with dead-end sperm, rendering the resulting eggs worthless. ...
-
How to Trap Mosquitoes in a “Bucket of Doom”
Mosquito dunks stop mosquitoes from being able to breed in standing water. Recently I used dunks to create a “mosquito bucket of doom,” a trap that entices mosquitoes to breed in standing water that you have poisoned against them. Here's how to do it.
-
Southern California Releasing Thousands of Mosquitoes
Southern California officials on Thursday launched an initiative aimed at curbing an invasive mosquito species that has spread rapidly in the greater Los Angeles area during the past 10 years.The effort includes releasing tens of thousands of sterilized male mosquitoes into the wild to mate with female mosquitoes, according to an April release from the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District. The process is called the Sterile Insect Technique, or SIT, and was used by the California...