Mike Clary writes about mosquitos in the Everglades and the research being done by Yale University students. Each day researchers set out traps in various park habitats to collect samples. Left overnight, one trap can pick up as many as 30,000 mosquitoes.
“This is frontier research,” said Durland Fish, a Yale professor of epidemiology who studies mosquito-borne illnesses such as West Nile virus and dengue fever. “And it is pretty ironic, since this place is so well known for mosquitoes, that a study like this has never been done before.”
