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Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization and DDT's slow decay

Culex pipiens, the northern house mosquito, is the most common mosquito in urban and suburban areas in North America. Mosquito populations have increased as much as ten-fold over the past five decades ... read more

New study links urbanization, DDT's slow decay to increase in mosquito populations

A new study finds the main drivers of these changes were the gradual waning of DDT concentrations in the environment and increased urbanization ... recent increases in mosquito populations appear to ... read more

Mosquito population growth in US driven by decay of DDT, urbanization

New research suggests a growth in mosquito populations in the United States has been driven by the decay of residual DDT in the environment and urbanization ... in mosquito populations appear to be ... read more

Zika Disease: Many Problems, Few Answers

The World Health Organization holds an emergency meeting today to find out how it can slow or ... a zone that's growing due to climate change, creating a growing superhighway for the mosquito to move ... read more

State of the World 2003

Chapter 3: Linking Population, Women, and Biodiversity, Mia MacDonald & Danielle Nierenberg The interplay among population growth ... less toxic than DDT. Sleeping under a bednet radically reduces the ... read more

Efficacy of an insecticide paint against malaria vectors and nuisance in West Africa - Part 2: Field evaluation

Insecticide paint Inesfly 5A IGR™, containing two organophosphates (OPs), chlorpyrifos and diazinon, and one insect growth regulator ... distance tests. Early mosquito collections were performed on ... read more

Apocalypse Not: Here's Why You Shouldn't Worry About End Times

Even DDT, which clearly does pose health risks to those unsafely exposed, has never been definitively linked to cancer ... Famine became rarer. The population growth rate was cut in half, thanks ... read more

Models, Tools, and Databases for Land and Waste Management Research

BIOCHLOR includes three different model types: Solute transport without decay Solute transport with ... VELMA is being linked to a variety of other models – fish and wildlife populations, air quality, ... read more

Silent Spring—II

At one time, the deer population was in equilibrium with its environment. A number of predators—wolves, pumas, and coyotes—prevented the deer from growing too numerous ... The first malaria mosquito ... read more

Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization, DDT's slow decay

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161206110247.htm>. University of California - Santa Cruz. (2016, December 6). Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization, DDT's slow decay: Rising ... read more

Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization and DDT's slow decay

Mosquito populations have increased as much as ten-fold over the past five decades in New York, New Jersey, and California, according to long-term datasets from mosquito monitoring programs. The ... read more