Mosquito Control, Killing Them Before They Hatch

Abstract

Mosquitoes are the most harmful insects who cause 2 million illnesses, kill 28 thousand people daily, most of them are in underdevelopment countries where a good part of the population is living without running water, people store water in large containers for their daily uses especially for food preparation, cooking, and drinking; there come mosquito habitats. People there are looking up to science for uncharm methods to kill those mosquito-to-be larvae and pupae that are already in their home. Proposed methods include introductions of oil, soap, toxin, or larvae eating fish contaminate their waters making them unfit for human consumption, they do not welcome. Because the insects are naturally air breathers, using minuscule snorkeling syphons, the experiments used CO2 to suffocate them by bending a duct to redirect smog from small candles onto the water surface. As the result, they were all killed in minutes.