Science, Maths & Technology
Mosquito resistance to insecticides
...system. The treatment was successful initially but, by 1972, the mosquito populations had begun to recover (Raymond et al., 1998). [Described image] Figure 1 Map indicating the location where mosquitoes were sprayed (hatched area), consisting of a 20–25 km-wide belt along the Mediterranean coast. To understand the reason for this recovery, the responses of different...