Katrina Helps New Orleans Fight Fire Ants
An upisde to Katrina: the possible elimination of fire ants in New Orleans. But thousands of unattended swimming pools are breeding mosquitos. But enterprising pest-control workers have been putting fish in the pools to keep the mosquito population down! See:
Katrina Helps New Orleans Fight Fire Ants
Katrina Helps New Orleans Fight Fire Ants
posted by Dr. Steven Morphy-Godchaux III at
9:07 PM
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The fish in question is Gambusia affinis, the "mosquito fish", so named b/c they eat larvae. I don't remember that they eat so many as to kill off the mosquito population, but it's worth a try.
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3215
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Thurston J Morphy III, at Fri May 12, 08:59:00 AM CDT
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