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>I grew up with parents that urged me to prevent pools of standing water, but don’t lots of non-mosquito insects need standing water to breed? Sure, they can u

>I grew up with parents that urged me to prevent pools of standing water, but don’t lots of non-mosquito insects need standing water to breed? Sure, they can use the other pools of standing water not near humans. The reason it works to limit some species of mosquito (mostly aedes aegypti) is that they preferentially seek to bite humans and so live near them. Other bugs seek out plants and other bugs so they can live elsewhere.

afarrell 7y ago
There are more than 7 billion humans in the world and lots of agricultural land is required to feed the ones in cities. How much land area is not near humans?
- perfmode 7y ago
  A lot. Humans are clustered.
- SargeZT 7y ago
  Roughly half of the habitable land in the world is used for agriculture. Of the remaining half, only about 1% is developed in any sense.
petre 7y ago
Aedes Aegypti can breed in jars, tires, basically anything that holds water. No need for pools of standing water.