Summer 2006 - Our Florida visit, #26

26. Taking the tram tour through "Ding" Darling we viewed the water impoundment areas meant to minimize mosquitoes. To day they are controlled with a bacteria that prevents their reproduction. Our guide did not know the effect of the reduced mosquito population on bats, fish, and others who eat mosquitoes.

	Spring, 2007, Coral Gables and Sanibel, Florida
26. Taking the tram tour through "Ding" Darling we viewed the water impoundment areas meant to minimize mosquitoes. To day they are controlled with a bacteria that prevents their reproduction. Our guide did not know the effect of the reduced mosquito population on bats, fish, and others who eat mosquitoes.