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Eternal fight against this “tiny:
Difficult to ignore it now. Nevertheless, insects live a “apocalypse” : whole populations “Butterflies and tales collapse, species of bees disappear” And with them, the whole ecosystem, starting with the possibility for plants to be pollinated, which is threatened.
“But he is an insect for which no one worries, succession De Groene Amsterdammer : The mosquito. However, He can die well. For example, ”
On the cover this week. For example, the Dutch magazine is interested in this “Tiny serial killer” to which man delivers a “Eternal fight”. And which has this amazing particularity: “Even scientists who study it” and rave in front of his evolution. the ingenuity of his oral pieces, “Do it with the aim of knowing him better, so that we can fight it better”.
Insecticide miracle – Eternal fight against this “tiny
Because even if he probably had to wait until the end of the 19th century to understand it. eternal fight against this “tiny mosquitoes kill, since they are vectors of virus and the parasite responsible for malaria.
After the Second World War, reports the Dutch weekly, we thought we found the panacea with the dichlorodiphenyloroethane (DDT). Unfortunately. this insecticide has also proven to be harmful to other insect populations and for the rest of the food chain, while mosquitoes have ended up becoming resistant.
That’s the problem: how to fight them without attacking other insects and the rest of the living? Knowing that. globalization helping, exotic species spread in Europe while native mosquitoes, so far harmless, can become vectors of tropical diseases.
The entomologist Bart Knols gives the example of an island of the Maldives where he had the idea of deceiving mosquitoes using lactic acid – whose smell is close to that of sweat -. co2such as emitting humans. By trapping mosquitoes. he had managed to clearly rid the area of his mosquitoes, helped by eternal fight against this “tiny the isolated situation of the island, where new individuals could hardly happen.
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