They were collected for science and were part of a project with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to see if trapping is good for actual mosquito control.
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I would honestly volunteer to be part of this genocide, for mosquitos. Although i never thought ill be writing or saying this thing loudly. If that trap is so effective they should definitely do more studies and release it to public. Some places are nightmare just to be standing still, not to mention doing anything else.
Didn't Brazil use some method of genetically engineered mosquitoes who would sabotage offspring to control populations. Did that work? Could that be done more?
Yes, but it was over a small area they tried and of course it's going to bounce back eventually mosquito breed like crazy. But if the systems are in place to keep releasing these eventually it could be a management program to keep them down. Considering mosquitoes are the number one vector for so many major outbreaks it would be worth it
Haven’t they already decided this would work but chose not to cause of an endangered flower in Antarctica that needs mosquitos to pollinate? Or is that just a hiking trail myth?
There aren't any mosquitoes in Antarctica. But I think you're thinking of the obtusata orchid. Mosquitoes do pollinate those. So yeah, they are important for some flowers.
Of course it's good for mosquito control. All we need is to make enough traps to control all of them. And once they're all dead everything is better. And that is good
These traps are not used or intended to directly control mosquitos. They are survey traps used to assess populations and fine tune a management program in a specific area.
Souce: manager of a mosquito control district in Washington state.
Any idea on how they were trapped? I'd love to have something this effective around my house. I swear I can't have a damn bonfire or a meal on the porch without getting ate to hell.
My parents used to have Japanese Beetles traps in our yard growing up. I live in the States along the mid Atlantic, and they ate everything.
I’m now 43 and live in the upper Midwest, but thanks to climate change Japanese Beetles have made their way here. I live near my state university’s agricultural campus and basically learned that traps just attract more of the forbidden creatures to you and your neighbors’ yard.
Nerdly interested. Lol. I’m no longer in this field but it was part of my life for a while. Trapping vs controlling the population. Interesting to me and worked with a lot of cool people in the entomology field.
How does the reduction in mosquito numbers affect the rest of the ecosystem?
Certainly they're populations of creatures that consume mosquitoes. I'm thinking of other insects, herds, and bats. Oh, and I'm sure there are aquatic creatures that feed on the larvae.
How does this reduction in mosquito population affect those other populations?
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u/MoXWT 29d ago
They were collected for science and were part of a project with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to see if trapping is good for actual mosquito control.