Mosquitoes are becoming a bigger threat, thanks to climate change. How can the U.S. keep them under control?
Mosquitoes are becoming a bigger threat, thanks to climate change. How can the U.S. keep them under control?
Warming temperatures are creating new habitats for species that spread deadly viruses like malaria and dengue fever. A combination of simple practical steps and revolutionary scientific techniques can help keep them at bay.
A common topic of conversation amongst my neighbors is how you can't even be in our yards because of the surge in mosquitoes this year.
Aedes aegypti needs to disappear from the face of the earth
15Oh, man, we got those in my area just a few years ago, and they're now the only ones we see. They're so horrible! The bite any time of the day, they bite multiple times, and they leave the most horrid welts.
5Yep they're awful. Supposedly they carry the nasty diseases too. Good times all around
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laser zappers, 3 microphones tunend to track them, a laser to shoot them, all of that in small package in every household.
i dont mind going blind if i take those fuckers out with me
8I'm not afraid to stand up and speak my mind. I know i speak for a silent majority when i say we need a Final Solution to the mosquito question. We need to come together and rid the land of this plague.
5Nothing nore dangerous than a wounded mosquito!
4I remember there being these large square trucks that would fog in the 90s. My parents told us if it was coming down or street, to come inside. I can't find anything about it, so I'm starting to question if it's a false memory, but I can picture them clear as day. When I try to look it up, I can only find info about DDT from the 50s to 70s or more modern pickup mounted foggers.
4I work in mosquito control. You aren't imagining it.
I'm new to the field but the guy I work with has done it since the early 80's and used to drive those trucks.
The way he tells it though people used to open up their windows when they heard the truck coming so the chemicals would come inside and kills the mosquitos that already made it in the house 🤣
The residential truck spraying isn't done any more though, for obvious reasons. Where I'm from it's just larval mosquito control, using bacteria that only kills mosquito larvae in the wayer. In the states they fly planes overhead and fog agricultural fields and whatnot. Killing all the mosquitos and bees and shit which may be pollinating the crops.
7It's crazy that folks were opening their windows, I'm glad my parents weren't like that. I'm glad to hear I wasn't imagining it. It's probably for the best that it stopped, though. Too often, we've coated ourselves and the environment in harmful chemicals. Sucks to hear about the pollinators, though.
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I'm not exactly sure what they're spraying, but it's still a regular thing where I live. I'm on the edge of suburbs/country south west of Chicago.
2We did move a lot as a kid. Maybe it was just one region we were in, then. Oddly enough, I'm not far from you in Indiana, yet I haven't seen any fogger trucks, but I don't see a lot of mosquitoes, either. I'm glad I'm not crazy and somebody else has seen this.
3Since you're in the states it may be Naled.
Not sure if Illinois has the same rules as where I live but for me we have to place advertisements every 3-5 years for mosquito control and have written plans in place which state every product used and methods of control and a bunch of other stuff which can be requested by the public.
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We need to help the bats.
2Let's definitely focus on the symptoms when brainstorming solutions.
2End car dependency. Replace fossil fuel power plants as fast as possible. Build electric HSR and ban passenger flights under a certain distance. Tax beef. Stop growing corn in Iowa for ethanol and grow food instead. Tax companies that require workers that can WFH to come in to an office. Tax credits for replacing methane or propane appliances or HVAC with electric. That's just to start.
-2Good stuff, but I'm not seeing the link to mosquitos
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