Mud bricks for building homes drying in the sun. Where Entebbe meets Lake Victoria dozens of men labor in the swamp, digging up clay to mold into these bricks. The resultant holes fill with water and become perfect breeding places for Culicine and Anopheles mosquitoes, including Anopheles gambiae, the most efficient malaria vector on Earth.
Fred finds A. gambiae larvae.
Larvae are scooped out of breeding habitat with plates. One reason that malaria is so difficult to control is that A. gambie breeds in small, temporary puddles that can from in tire tracks or animal footprints.
what effect, would you say, does this 'global climate change' have on the little malaria-mules? we are far into october, it's in the high 70s and i wake up mauled every morning with new welts to scratch all day. shouldn't the mosquitoes be dead or hibernating or migrating or whatever by now??
ReplyDeletenot to mention the praying mantis that's found a home on my brooklyn windowsill ...
hmm yes i have also noted this phenomenon in queens, the OTHER side of the universe, that is. I've been waiting for Mike Huckabee to address this issue between punchlines. Maybe some of Amin's boosters have some insight? maybe eventually it'll just get too hot for the skeeters?
ReplyDeletehappy huntin' hippy...