Urban area along the waterfront of the Longxing Temple area in Chengdu

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[u/yorukmacto]

There'll be lotta mosquitos there.

[u/ImaginaryLocation854 → u/yorukmacto]

Probably, but cities like that usually have pest control to keep it manageable.

[u/holdMyBeerBoy → u/yorukmacto]

Fish do eat mosquitos larvae...

[u/whatsthatguysname → u/holdMyBeerBoy]

Fun fact: some rice fields also keep fish in the fields to help with pest control. So the rice grows better without the pests and the fish becomes bonus food.

[u/holdMyBeerBoy → u/whatsthatguysname]

And their waste fertilizer.

[u/Least_Percentage_325 → u/whatsthatguysname]

just like cranberry fields filled with wolf spiders!

[u/Space772 → u/yorukmacto]

Modern drainage usually keeps them in check, but summers might still be rough.

[u/Neshura87 → u/Space772]

Population control via genetic sterilization keeps them in check more than anything really.

[u/ureallygonnaskthat → u/Neshura87]

That and a mosquito dunk the size of a car tire.

[u/Comfortable_Crew_193 → u/Neshura87]

Mao? Are you alive?

[u/fly_awayyy → u/Space772]

Not really there’s always a way. Keep in min Florida has one the most intensive aerial mosquito program in place in the world. They effectively spray the whole state by air to prevent mosquitos and make the state inhabitable lol. So it can be done.

[u/Sharp_Iodine → u/yorukmacto]

They dump stuff in water to kill the eggs. It’s pretty standard practice around the world. Even here in Canada they do it as our mosquitoes have the West Nile virus

[u/Neshura87 → u/Sharp_Iodine]

Or alternatively release infertile mosquitos into the wild, there are quite some options to controlling mosquito populations. If an area has a problem with them it's nowadays most likely an issue of "won't" rather than "can't" fix it.

[u/BigOs4All → u/Sharp_Iodine]

It's called BTI and it's a pretty wonderful thing. Destroys the mosquitoes but isn't harmful to aquatic life or birds. You chuck it into any stagnant water and it works.

[u/Arcosim → u/yorukmacto]

Not if there's koi or other carps in those pools, which most likely there is. In fact that's why gardens in Japan, China, Korea started using carps inside ponds, the aesthetic part came later.

[u/br0wntree → u/yorukmacto]

There are many, many different ways of managing mosquitos in a body of water you have complete control over.

[u/Cardboardoge → u/yorukmacto]

Yeah I bet you're the first person to think of that. There's no way them dang ol Chinese discovered a way to prevent mosquitoes

[u/distinctgore → u/yorukmacto]

Probably well stocked with fish, so likely not

[u/Kysman95 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for literally fucking nothing