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Is it indeed possible to eradicate mosquitoes? Outside my house at certain parts of the day, there's tons and it only takes a few seconds to get swarmed. :( Wh

• acdha 7y ago
  We bought some GAT traps to thin the swarms of tiger mosquitos we have in DC and it seems to be working: https://us.biogents.com/bg-gat/ https://us.biogents.com/bg-gat/ What I really want to mature is the photonic fence but that’s been slow going: https://photonicsentry.com/ https://photonicsentry.com/
• ip26 7y ago
  The sterile-male technique is IMO the latest & greatest. You breed vast quantities of sterile males (which do not bite, only females bite) and release them in an area. They compete with viable males for mates, and the net effect is suppressing the reproduction of the population. It exhibits some very desirable attributes. It's incredibly selective, targeting only one species. It is also self-limiting, there is no feedback loop that could run out of control and there are no chemicals that could accumulate in the environment. For a while the cost of breeding the males was prohibitive but some recent innovation has dropped the cost tremendously.