Talk:Mosquito control

message: Furthermore, genetic modification can also be a possible method, here you can divide it in two categories: males that will reproduce, but will make their children infertile. The other method is to change the genes of the mosquito's in such way that they won't be carriers anymore of diseases like malaria or dengue. This method however involves more risk, because humans could be occurring allergic reactions to the stings of the modified mosquito's.
I would love to see it in there, but it maybe needs a little more citations and needs to be rewritten a little bit, thanks in advance if you would be able to do it for me.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.134.162.182 (talk) 09:44, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this a good alinea?

message: To my mind, this article is currently too regionally specific, and also has priorities very much at odds with those of major authorities on the subject, such as the WHO.  I'm going to attempt a clean-up myself, but further input would be appreciated Procrastinator supreme 15:45, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, for one thing, we've got "disease control" coming in at third place.  Surely it has to be the main reason for mosquito control in most of the world.  Also, why does malaria get such a late mention in the list of diseases, with much less common diseases which happen to occur in the US coming first?  Procrastinator supreme 08:08, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Sorry, bad day.  Still think this needs work, though, but I'll tone down the comments at the top.  Procrastinator supreme 13:12, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

text: That sounds like a good idea.  There's no reason to have two pages with essentially the same content.  Squamate 13:54, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Was "Complete rewrite needed", now "Needs more, especially on developing world issues..."

message: The section Mosquito#Mosquito control and integrated mosquito management should be merged with this article (leaving only a brief section there with a  tage directing here). they obviously cover the same topic, and it does warrant a separate article. --Singkong2005 talk 20:58, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: It looks like someone deleted some references from the list at the bottom of the page.  Squamate 22:39, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: Recently the use of indoor spraying has received a lot of attention. Does it now rank up there with taking anti-malarial drugs, or what?
And is this the right place for malaria eradication campaigns, or should I be in vector control? (Sounds like a video game add-on ;-) --Uncle Ed 18:57, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ranking the effectiveness of methods

message: I've moved some stuff from Mosquito that belongs here to a temporary "Merge" section. I'm working on it to eliminate duplication and blend what's useful, so I'm asking for patience. Swanny18 (talk) 14:41, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, done Swanny18 (talk) 15:18, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: The photo of the man spraying DDT included in this article has a caption: "In 1958, the National Malaria Eradication Program implemented the wide-scale use of DDT for mosquito control." However, the National Malaria Eradication Program ran from 1947 thru 1951. Valerius Tygart (talk) 20:26, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo date

message: There is a very important omission, Bti. You can not in all honesty make a risk to benefit analysis on the subject of mosquito control without discussing <Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis>. It is a major logic flaw. The assertion that DDT risks are outweighed by the benefits assumes there isn't a more effective and safer alternative. Since there is an alternative and it is being commercially produced for mosquito control, it needs to be mentioned in this section. (68.12.189.233 (talk) 06:38, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Bti

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message: Adding a new section: Optical control.
There are 2 distinct paths of optical mosquito control methods: one uses light  to attract and the other to repel. On one hand the CDC (Center of Disease Control) published 2 versions of mosquito light traps model 912 and the newer smaller model 512 which are currently used by most if not all local mosquito control offices. They are superb in catching live species. At the core of the designs, incandescent light sources  were used as attracting agents to lure them close, enough be sucked in by the act of a fan. On the other hand, the yellow light bulbs are currently marketed as devices to repel insects, mosquitoes included. There was a 1998 published study of the effectiveness of the traps using different colors as mosquito attracting agents. among them, the yellows resulted in the least counts1.  The market also has other light traps that are built on the belief that they are attracted to the purple and the UV light sources.  There is also a new proposal2 of using multicolor light pulse systems to flood the areas with simulated presences of other insects, possibly predators?  It claims to work on their perception, they translate the unending fast space changing of color as appearances of some who suddenly disappear in order to be replaced by another, over and over, they confuse and shy away.
1Journal of The American Control Association 14(2):186-195, 1998
2International Journal of Entomology Research 5(6): 45-47, 2020
Ephitran (talk) 04:43, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I hope I found the references online, because you didn’t link to them: are they “Field evaluation of colored light-emitting diodes as attractants for woodland mosquitoes and other diptera in north central Florida” and “Mosquito control: A simple optical method” ?  Ferkijel (talk) 09:09, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

text: , see my concerns above, includes a source from a predatory journal. - MrOllie (talk) 11:59, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

text: The RJIF isn't a well known metric (it appears to be a single person endeavor, in fact). Thompson Reuters is the publisher of  the generally used impact factor. As to the 'two journals' issue, one is published by 'Global Science Research Journals', the other is 'Gupta Publications' - both are predatory publishers. MrOllie (talk) 16:33, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

text: You should check the list again. I'm sorry that you got taken in by a less than reputable publisher, but the fact remains, this is not an appropriate source for Wikipedia. - MrOllie (talk) 16:02, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

text: Waiting a bit and then adding more cites to yourself in a predatory journal is not going to work - please stop doing this. - MrOllie (talk) 13:37, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some proposed changes 

message: The picture captioned "Walls on IRS-treated bathroom on the shores of Lake Victoria. The mosquitoes remain on the wall until they fall down dead on the floor." is not a picture of mosquitoes. Zooming in clearly shows the insects in the photo to be non-biting chironomid midges. 2620:0:E50:1015:790C:16B8:E1BD:9AFB (talk) 17:13, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture showing Chironomidae midges, not mosquitoes 

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