A common topic of conversation amongst my neighbors is how you can't even be in our yards because of the surge in mosquitoes this year.
Aedes aegypti needs to disappear from the face of the earth
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
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Oh, man, we got those in my area just a few years ago, and they're now the only ones we see. They're so horrible! The bite any time of the day, they bite multiple times, and they leave the most horrid welts.
Yep they're awful. Supposedly they carry the nasty diseases too. Good times all around
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.
capitalists need to disappear from the face of the earth, the rest will work itself out eventually.
Why are you booing him? He's right!
im kind of agreeing with him because he is right
and adding that if we want any solutions we have to deal with the root causes.
Oh, I meant booing you (at the time you had more downvotes than upvotes). I agree on root cause
laser zappers, 3 microphones tunend to track them, a laser to shoot them, all of that in small package in every household.
i dont mind going blind if i take those fuckers out with me
I remember there being these large square trucks that would fog in the 90s. My parents told us if it was coming down or street, to come inside. I can't find anything about it, so I'm starting to question if it's a false memory, but I can picture them clear as day. When I try to look it up, I can only find info about DDT from the 50s to 70s or more modern pickup mounted foggers.
I work in mosquito control. You aren't imagining it.
I'm new to the field but the guy I work with has done it since the early 80's and used to drive those trucks.
The way he tells it though people used to open up their windows when they heard the truck coming so the chemicals would come inside and kills the mosquitos that already made it in the house 🤣
The residential truck spraying isn't done any more though, for obvious reasons. Where I'm from it's just larval mosquito control, using bacteria that only kills mosquito larvae in the wayer. In the states they fly planes overhead and fog agricultural fields and whatnot. Killing all the mosquitos and bees and shit which may be pollinating the crops.
It's crazy that folks were opening their windows, I'm glad my parents weren't like that. I'm glad to hear I wasn't imagining it. It's probably for the best that it stopped, though. Too often, we've coated ourselves and the environment in harmful chemicals. Sucks to hear about the pollinators, though.
I'm not exactly sure what they're spraying, but it's still a regular thing where I live. I'm on the edge of suburbs/country south west of Chicago.
We did move a lot as a kid. Maybe it was just one region we were in, then. Oddly enough, I'm not far from you in Indiana, yet I haven't seen any fogger trucks, but I don't see a lot of mosquitoes, either. I'm glad I'm not crazy and somebody else has seen this.
Since you're in the states it may be Naled.
Not sure if Illinois has the same rules as where I live but for me we have to place advertisements every 3-5 years for mosquito control and have written plans in place which state every product used and methods of control and a bunch of other stuff which can be requested by the public.
I'm not afraid to stand up and speak my mind. I know i speak for a silent majority when i say we need a Final Solution to the mosquito question. We need to come together and rid the land of this plague.
Nothing nore dangerous than a wounded mosquito!
Napalm
Let's definitely focus on the symptoms when brainstorming solutions.
We need to help the bats.
End car dependency. Replace fossil fuel power plants as fast as possible. Build electric HSR and ban passenger flights under a certain distance. Tax beef. Stop growing corn in Iowa for ethanol and grow food instead. Tax companies that require workers that can WFH to come in to an office. Tax credits for replacing methane or propane appliances or HVAC with electric. That's just to start.
Good stuff, but I'm not seeing the link to mosquitos
If the cause of the mosquito rise is climate change, then the answer is to address the cause of the issue.
Problem is that it's the warmer temperature, not "change" per se. And we can't really bring it back down.
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