Mosquitoes that carry infectious diseases with high mortality such as dengue fever, deer fever and malaria are the animals that kill the most. An animated video explaining how to exterminate these mosquitoes has been released on YouTube.
When you think regarding killing mosquitoes, the first thing that comes to mind is pesticides. There are various types of insecticides that are effective once morest mosquitoes, but the problem with insecticides is that they are harmful to the human body. Simply put, the stronger the effect on mosquitoes, the more harmful it is to the human body. As of 2019, pesticides are being used according to the standards of countries around the world, but it is expected that the use of pesticides enough to exterminate mosquitoes will affect the human body.
A natural way that does not affect the human body is to use organisms that feed on mosquitoes, such as bats. Past research has shown that a bat can eat 10 mosquitoes per minute. If there are 1,000 bats, it can eat 1 million mosquitoes in 2 hours. However, the fight between bats and mosquitoes, such as vampires, is a good subject for a movie, but it is not realistic. The reason is that it is only possible in a laboratory to eat 10 mosquitoes per minute, so wild bats prefer moths and spiders to mosquitoes.
Another method is to use an insecticide that attracts and kills mosquitoes with blue light, but it is not a good idea. Insecticides kill beneficial insects rather than mosquitoes. Therefore, most of the methods of extinction of common mosquitoes are wrong.
For this reason, advanced attempts using modern science are emerging. One of the ways modern science is showing is to modify the genes of mosquitoes, such as making them unable to reproduce or killing their mates. A 2019 study also found that it was successful in eradicating mosquitoes with parasitic bacteria. This method injects bacteria into males and irradiates them with low-dose radiation to eliminate their reproductive abilities. The results of the experiment were reported to have significantly reduced mosquito populations on a small remote island in China.
If the mosquito population is too large to use this method for mosquitoes around the world, but at least to a limited extent, it may be a valid method. Of course, there are reports that large-scale experiments using mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill offspring in Brazil have failed.
