The purpose of this article is to provide you with some reasonably detailed background information on mosquitoes and the reduction of its population. At the same time it cannot provide all the relevant information. I have tried to gear this article to the needs and the environment of a beach community. Mosquitoes remain a major killer in other parts of the world, in the US they are more or less a nuisance with the exception of a few species that can carry disease. Mosquitoes serve a vital ecological function in that their larvae, pupae, and adults are important food sources for fish, birds, bats, frogs, and insects.
All mosquitoes require water to complete their life cycle.
If we could control standing water, we could manage mosquitoes. While we can empty cans, fill a puddle, we cannot as easily manage salt marshes. Aedes, Culex, or Anopheles. Long Island and Fire Island has about 42 different species. Not all of them bite humans and only the females need the bloods protein to mature their eggs.