mosquitos

Are you saying putting a child at risk of life threatening disease to save the mosquitos is acting morally responsible?

There will always be mosquitos and recurrent infections to re-infect the locals after the doctors are gone.

Still had to deal with mosquitos (but not nearly as bad as in mid-late summer).

But when a summer storm brews the mosquitos disappear for two or three days.

Anyone who lives in a mosquito heavy area knows that mosquitos (like almost all airborne insects) go into hiding during heavy rain and/or wind.

I don't think concern for mosquitos was the main reason for banning DDT.

Those are far more concerning to me than mosquitos.

Wait, so 60% of male mosquitos are effectively sterile?

But since you don't have the money, you only solve 95% of the problem, and then the mosquitos breed back to their original level in a few generations.

You can make 1000 theories about how our tiny vampire friends deal with raindrops, but it's pretty clear that intensive rain (>3hours) wipe out mosquitos population for several days...

Still it's kind of absurd that we are humans, and not, say, mosquitos, for the a-priori probability of finding yourself in the body of a mosquito is quite a bit higher.

Living a calm life in the outdoors will definitely reduce the stress levels, so I guess it just takes some time to become invisible to mosquitos.

It's not as simple as "kill the mosquitos." What if "kill the mosquitos" meant "burn down all the forest and destroy all of the wetlands." Are you about to destroy the world to save your child?

"mosquitoes can also hack into bacterial communication systems using chemoreceptors on their antennae, rather like World War II code-breakers intercepting an encrypted transmission" Is it just to mundane to say mosquitos can smell using chemoreceptors on their antennae, rather like you smelling with your nose?

Mosquitos, noise, disturbance, tuts from staff that you are sitting there too long not buying enough.

Mosquitos are bad, toxic chemicals are bad, too.

Mosquitos, yellow flies, biting gnats, and horse flies combined to ensure that I would always have a few red splotches and bumps on my body when I came in.