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Mosquitoes are a choice: the technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease already exists
worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquitoes-are-a-choice/
Replying to @inari@piefed.zip
Wouldn’t that reduce the dragon fly population as well (who eats mosquito larva)?
Replying to @zbyte64@awful.systems
They don’t really control mosquito populations that much. Dragon flies prefer fresh permanent bodies of water (I think usually flowing too), whereas mosquito larvae inhabit stagnant pools.