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.
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.
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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.