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  1. Left and right hand aren't talking
    Simon Simon Australia says:
    January 5, 2011 at 8:53 PM

    I would worry too much about these little biters, Its a great idea in theory but.....I live in cairns and the council spray the worst areas weekly with poison to keep the mozzy numbers down.

    The problem with that is the mozzy's  have been released in these same areas, so the council have come along and sprayed these new super mozzy's! So they all die.

    You have to remember this is a state that introduced Cane Toads to keep the bugs down, now the state in carpeted by these same toads. They have eaten some of the bugs before turning on the native frogs.

    Some people only think one move ahead on a chess board.

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      Liam Liam Australia says:
      January 6, 2011 at 10:45 AM

      Notice the mosquitoes always come back. They have an amazing ability to reproduce so whenever we kill some it is never enough. That is why short-sighted attempts at eradication fail.

      This one is different. We release the super mozzies, if they are sprayed they won't all die, like the regular ones don't all die, but because they reproduce better they take over and replace the old ones.  

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