Tag: aedes aegypti

Killing Mosquitos With Recycled Tires

Photo credit: https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/should-you-take-that-mosquito-bite-personally/ Beginning in 2016, Dr. Gerardo Ulibarri, a researcher with the Laurentian University in Canada, began placing a special kind of mosquito trap around the town of Troncones, on the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Guerrero state. These traps, called ovillantas, have proven successful in dramatically reducing the population […]