> Mosquitoes need standing water for their eggs to hatch. That significantly limits where the things can breed
If you've spent any time in the eastern or northern United States, you'd realize that standing water is more or less ubiquitous.
Mosquitos need very little water to breed.
> If you area suffers from mosquitos it's almost certainly because a group of anti-mosquito abatement folk got together to lobby against those programs being implemented.
I've seen first hand what happens when cities/counties put more funding and effort into mosquito abatement programs.
The larvicide and pesticide treatments are highly effective and can be highly targeted either by airplane delivery or on foot treatments. It takes very little at the right time to have a huge impact on the mosquito population.
We could also encourage more healthier ecosystems with larger bird and fish populations. I've often noticed that areas with huge amounts of mosquitos have very few fish and few birds. Fish predate on the larvae and birds predate on the adults.
I think climate change plays a role in my area as well by increasing the length of the breeding season.
That's a completely uncharitably reading of my comment.
Mosquito abatement programs generally involve treating large swaths of area with larvicide at the right time, often by plane.
The reason counties in state like Louisiana doesn't do that more frequently is the cost of the larvicide and plane charter along with the area that needs to be sprayed. That is a budget issue that ultimately also faces uphill battles because people will accuse the abatement program of wanting to just drain all the swamps (just like you did).
These aren't impractical programs, they do cost money.
Oh, and not for nothing, cholera is a problem when you leave water management up to people putting their septic tanks next to their well water. It's a problem of the lack of investment in water infrastructure. Much like mosquito management is something addressable with pubic investment.
If you've spent any time in the eastern or northern United States, you'd realize that standing water is more or less ubiquitous.
Mosquitos need very little water to breed.
> If you area suffers from mosquitos it's almost certainly because a group of anti-mosquito abatement folk got together to lobby against those programs being implemented.
Strong opinion, poorly informed.