Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:00 PM Carol Ryan
Dumas/Capital Press Kirk Tubbs, right, manager of Twin Falls
County Pest Abatement District, talks with Trace Bedke of Butte
Irrigation Inc, following TubbsÕ presentation on mosquito
control on farms during the Agri Action 2013 farm show on Jan.
31 in Twin Falls, Idaho. A gallon of water can produce 10,000
mosquitoes in a summer By CAROL RYAN DUMAS Mosquitoes are
opportunistic when it comes to procreating, laying eggs in any
pool of water available, but farmers can control them with some
simple measures. It just takes knowing what environment is
conducive to egg laying and hatching and eliminating it, said
Kirk Tubbs, manager of the Twin Falls County Pest Abatement
District. How to irrigate and avoid raising a crop that bites
back was the topic of Tubbs' presentation at the Agri Action
2013 farm show in Twin Falls. Mosquito larvae require shallow,
standing water to hatch, and the more putrid, the better,
because the larvae feed on organic matter in the w