Talk:Oviposition


 * A major issue for human health is the prevention of oviposition by malaria-bearing anopheles mosquitos. Suggested methods include using floating plants to cover the surface of bodies of stagnant water[2].

There's something wrong with that... The malaria spreads between successive people bitten by the same adult mosquito, but the mosquito eggs are clean. One approach to eliminating human malaria is to eliminate the carrier species of mosquito (regardless of whether the individual mosquito is currently bearing the parasite or not), but there are many alternatives (such as bednets to prevent the mosquitos acquiring the parasite from the people bedridden with it). And one approach to reducing that mosquito population is to disrupt the oviposition, but there are certainly alternatives (a particularly revolutionary one is a strain of mosquito with healthy males but flightless females, with the potential to eradicate the species in the same way as an outbreak of vampirism/zombies). So to specifically identify "prevention of oviposition" as "a major issue for human health" is overstating the significance of one approach among many. Cesiumfrog (talk) 00:25, 3 April 2012 (UTC)