It is believed that the virus overwinters in the sand and black
fly population in northern Mexico and then moves northward in warmer weather.
«[Golden Malrin] is an important tool in
reducing fly populations which have the potential to spread disease to livestock and humans,» wrote Mark Newberg, a representative for Wellmark International in Schaumburg, Illinois, which produces Golden Malrin, in an email.
The study, conducted using fruit
fly populations bred to model natural variations in human sleep patterns, provides new clues to how genes for sleep duration are linked to a wide variety of biological processes.
I have been on planes where passengers became severly ill, more so than a dog bite — such as when Dr. Jed herniated a disc in his spine on our L - O - O - O - O - O - O - O - N - G flight to SE Asia sitting in tiny seats engineered for the shorter
Asian flying population (no joke).
Incidents of tularemia tend to be higher when tick and
deer fly populations are on the upsurge during summer months.
But because of their unique breeding from the National Sterile Insect Technology facility in Port Augusta, they will not be able to lay any larvae, and will eventually die, hopefully decreasing the fruit
fly population.
Machine learning algorithms pool the continuous data arriving from each of these traps and predict when the local fruit
fly population is about to explode.
Then they fed members of each of
those fly populations from a menu of five different diets.
«Such a high host density might allow
the fly population to explode.»
The school is also planning involvement with a PHD student looking at managing fruit
fly populations.
The video above is just one example of how organic farmers encourage natural checks and balances to control insects and pests — in this case stringing up bird houses across a dairy farm to encourage swallows, which in turn keep down
the fly population.