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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by hutzlibu on Saturday April 28, 2018 @04:30AM (#16946684)
"DDT was arguably one of the safer insect repellents ever invented—far safer than many of the pesticides that have taken its place."

Thats missleading, because we don't really use pesticices against mosquitos anymore.

Main "pesticide" today is a living bacteria which targets Mosquitos directly and apparently with not much side-effects to the nature besides reducing mosquitos and totally non-toxic to mammals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis

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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by hcurtiss on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:59AM (#16947933)
Not sure where you got the idea we don’t spray pesticides for mosquitoes anymore. There are large vector control districts all over the country that do exactly that. You may be interested in the NPIC page.

http://npic.orst.edu/pest/mosquito/mosqcides.html

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