Mosquitoes articles
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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. ...
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The Best Way to Keep Mosquitoes From Breeding in Your Yard
Mosquito season is coming up--and maybe it's already here if you live in a warmer place. We've already explained how to keep mosquitoes from biting you, but let's talk about preventing them from buzzing around in the first place. You need mosquito dunks.
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Hundreds of thousands of mosquitos to be unleashed in Los Angeles
If you live in Los Angeles and start seeing people releasing fluorescent-colored mosquitos from plastic buckets, you’re not hallucinating. But there is a good reason for releasing these bugs. According to an April 12 news release from the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District, it’s all part of a coordinated plan to wage war on the invasive Aedes aegypti mosquito, an aggressive vector that rightfully earned its “ankle biter” nickname. Steve Vetrone, the agency’s director of...