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Mosquito fogging. I live in the tropics. ?
Dengue fever is a problem here. We have many mosquitos. I generally wear OFF. However, I used to live in New Orleans, I rode horses at a stable on the west bank. I noted one day that there were zillions of dragon flies. It was almost creepy. Next day, a truck comes by to fog the place. I had never been bit by a mosquito before at this place. One week later it was insane with mosquitoes. No dragon flies to be seen. Same thing happened here. Before my new fog happy neighbors moved in, I had almost no mosquitoes. Now I have zillions of blood suckers and no dragon flies. I have been converted. Anyone else noticed an increase in bugs after fogging?
I haven’t noticed it because I don’t fog, but as someone pointed out above, the problem with fogging is that it kills insect predators as well as the mosquitos, but leaves the mosquito larvae alone. It locks you into a never-ending cycle of fogging (and shelling out money to the fogging company) because just about the time the predators are trying to make a comeback (they reproduce slower than mosquitoes), they get hit again, while the fast-reproducing mosquitoes just become increasingly resistant to the fog.
Same principle: in the early years of the pesticide revolution, crop losses to insects dropped dramatically. Now they’re almost twice what they were in the 40′s (from 7% to 13%), despite a ten-fold increase in insecticide use, because the beneficial insects are dead and the pests are resistant.
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