Mosquitoes are becoming a bigger threat, thanks to climate change. How can the U.S. keep them under control? - eviltoast
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, and they’re so hard to get rid of. The kind we used to have would lay a bunch of eggs in one thing or water, like a flower pot or a bucket or something. If you dumped all that kind of thing out, you’d get rid of them. But these will lay a few eggs here and the in tiny amounts of water, like a cup-shaped leaf that’s sprayed by a sprinkler. And if it dries out before the eggs hatch, they’ll last a very long time until that spot is wet again. It seems impossible to get rid of them.