Getting Mosquitoes to Spread Poison to Their Own Larvae

It is a well established fact that the mosquito which is highly responsible for infecting people wih the dengue fever virus cannot be controlled, and that the measure that has to be taken was not very easy. The reason behind the difficulty is expected as bug Aedes aegypti, evolved in parallel with humans living around them and bred in even the smallest puddles of water namely rainwater in a discarded can or saucer or say under a flower pot. Recently researchers went down to find whether mosquitoes would spread an insecticide that kills larvae but not adult mosquitoes, for which they used a cemetery in Peru as a "dissemination station". It was the idea of Gregor J. Devine of Rothamsted Research, an agricultural institute in Britain, to whom it occurred that why not mosquitoes themselves do the work of spreading pesticide which maybe otherwise really painstaking if it had to be done door-to-door. Building on laboratory studies that showed that adult mosquitoes could pick up an insecticide and transfer it, he and his colleagues conducted field experiments in Iquitos, Peru, using pyriproxyfen, a compound that kills larvae but is not harmful to adult mosquitoes (or to people, either, in the amounts used).