Via The Hindu :
" MYSORE: The Mysore City Corporation (MCC) has found a novel weapon to control breeding of mosquitoes that cause dengue, malaria and chikungunya — mosquito larvae-eating fish.For the first time, the corporation has resolved to use larva-eating fish such as gambusia, guppy and common carp to control the breeding of mosquitoes.
This method has proved successful in other parts of the country and in the neighbouring district of Mandya.
The corporation has taken up the drive now since pre- and post-monsoon is said to be the time ideal for mosquito breeding owing to water stagnation.
Also known as mosquitofish, an adult gambusia fish can consume more than 200 larvae in an hour.
MCC Health Officer T.S. Nagaraj told The Hindu that the fish eats the larvae of Aedes aegypti, which spreads dengue and chikungunya, and Anopheles mosquitoes, which spreads malaria."
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