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- Title
Housing crash leads to new invasion danger.
- Authors
Gillespie, Alison
- Abstract
The article reports that a declining US economy and a soft housing market develops new habitat for mosquitoes in Maricopa County, Arizona in the form of swimming pools located at the back of abandoned luxury homes. Officials in the region is making mosquito fish widely available to the general public to control the insects. Although this may at first seem like a biologically wise alternative to the widespread spraying of pesticides, some ecologists are sounding the alarm. One of them is Harry Crockett an aquatic researcher with the Colorado Division of Wildlife in Fort Collins, Colorado who has been working to assess the impacts of the fish introductions in the Southwest. Crockett warns that the fish are omnivorous, they will eat other fish species, as well as beneficial aquatic insects.
- Subjects
MARICOPA County (Ariz.); ARIZONA; MOSQUITOES; EASTERN mosquitofish; GAMBUSIA; INSECT pest control; CROCKETT, Harry; SWIMMING pools; ECOLOGISTS
- Publication
Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, 2008, Vol 6, Issue 6, p297
- ISSN
1540-9295
- Publication type
Article