What are alternative methods to control mosquitoes?
The most practical alternative to insecticides are collective control methods for source reduction, which uses various approaches to reduce or eliminate breeding habitats and control mosquitoes in the larval stage. People who practice good water sanitation around home or places of business are practicing a form of source reduction. Water management efforts for multiple environmental goals and objectives, such as flood prevention, storm water management, waterfowl production and habitat, fish nursery areas, etc. can be indirect source reduction methods. In some jurisdictions, although not in Clark County at this time, mosquito-eating (Gambusia) fish are stocked in freshwater mosquito breeding habitats or available to the general public for use in home ponds.
