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One thing the article doesn't clarify is how knowledge of these dry season hiding places could help with eradication, especially given that they go dormant and
by stdbrouw 4y ago
One thing the article doesn't clarify is how knowledge of these dry season hiding places could help with eradication, especially given that they go dormant and do not breed during this period. Apparently the researchers already know where the wet season hiding places are, so what makes the dry season sites more appealing targets?
- dtgriscom 4y agoKnowing that they exist, and what they are, is surely a step in the direction of intervention.
- shellfishgene 4y agoThe article says that knowing the hiding places could inform efforts to kill them in the dry season. I assume that it would be easier with more time to do that in the dry season, as soon as they start breeding again you're batteling an exponential increase. Maybe if one would know what kind of place they look for to spend the dry season, traps could be built? It also says that knowing that they stay around is good evidence that spraying insecticide at the start of the wet season is a good strategy.
- rubidium 4y agoThere’s likely a lot less of them and they’re not moving around, making it easier to eradicate. Have a team of people hit the 50 known hiding spots in your “county/district/diocese sized equivalent” every season is an achievable plan.