The Nicosia Municipality on Friday called for the introduction of mosquito-eating fish in water tanks around the capital ... are known to eat mosquito larvae and help to stem the expansion ...

But the tyres may be harbouring the larvae of mosquitoes and possibly that of the Aedes which carries the dengue and Zika viruses.

A preprint published on February 23 in bioRxiv shows that female mosquitoes might be able to sculpt the environment where they lay their eggs, depositing growth-boosting bacteria in the water ...

they prey on mosquito larvae, effectively preventing mosquito development. The addition of copepods into large water-storage tanks was successful in limiting dengue transmission in Vietnam.

When the containers fill with water, mosquito larvae hatch from the eggs. After developing through four larval stages, the larvae metamorphose into pupas. Like the larval stage, the pupal stage is ...

The idea’s still the same as before: let mosquitoes lay their eggs in the standing waters of tanks and swamps, then disturb the water with vibrations so the larvae on the surface can’t breathe.

That’s where Bti becomes useful. If you can’t empty, scrub or cover items that hold water you can use Bti to kill off any mosquito larvae that could be hatching in there. So, what is Bti?

Aedes mosquito eggs lie dormant for up to nine months and hatch within hours if exposed to even a teaspoon of water. It takes four days for larvae to develop into pupae and adult mosquitoes emerge ...