Re:Feral desert donkeys are digging wells, giving water to p...
by myshpa on Friday August 11, 2023 @01:17PM
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> Whenever we restore a wetlands, the area goes from “surprisingly low amounts of mosquitoes most of the time” back to “fuck I can’t go outside”
You haven't restored biodiversity; you've simply flooded an area. You need to wait for all the animals to return and propagate.
> without more intensive control methods, which sometimes end up being pesticides
Yep, that'd be the opposite of intelligent solution.
Whenever we restore a wetlands, the area goes from “surprisingly low amounts of mosquitoes most of the time” back to “fuck I can’t go outside”
https://www.opb.org/news/article/restored-marsh-breeds-swarm...
There are ways to somewhat mitigate this through more intelligent wetland design methods, but ultimately no way to even mostly resolve the problem without more intensive control methods, which sometimes end up being pesticides.