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RE: Playing God: Should We Eliminate All Mosquitoes?

in #specicide8 years ago

I don't think aircraft spraying will kill them off, if I'm not wrong Grand Cayman has something like this and it does work but just for containing not eliminating. I used to work at a port in Northern Honduras that is infested with mosquitoes and sand flies, they practically drove you crazy, well the US Army set up a camp there and once a high ranking officer got there felt the mosquitoes and said tomorrow we're gonna fix this once and for all. The next day several airplanes sprayed the whole zone and for two days zero mosquitoes, on the third day they were back in force.
What I am saying is these insects can be controlled but will be very difficult to eradicate, same as cockroaches.

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Yes, they cannot be eradicated only by spraying. That's why the genetic means ;)