"mosquito" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- India, which spends millions of dollars on pesticides to fight malaria-bearing mosquitoes, is starting to concentrate on cheaper, environmentally safer ways of controlling the insects.
- It is because the malaria-bearing mosquito stays clear of yellow.
- However, in the postcolonial era, as hardwood logging and population growth have attained critical mass, with bush replacing forest and concrete replacing bush, the malaria-bearing mosquito did not die off, but evolved.
- He traveled the old Burma Road in a jeep with Christian chaplains, holding Sabbath services before sundown to avoid the malaria-bearing mosquitoes that emerged at nightfall.
- But after a narrow escape from Papua New Guinea a few years back, we'd set some limits: no more revolutionary insurgents or malaria-bearing mosquitoes.
- The use of prophylactic drugs where malaria-bearing mosquitoes are present may encourage the development of partial immunity.
- And the warming global climate is carrying those malaria-bearing mosquitoes north.
- This enabled them to stay at somewhat higher ground during the hotter months of summer with malaria-bearing mosquitoes.
- The subsequent draining of the marshes had a twofold benefit in that pastureland was created, which supported sheep; and the local malaria-bearing mosquitoes were deprived of their breeding grounds.
- He did not know a malaria-bearing mosquito from a bat; he knew nothing about tests of drinking water; and in the matters of plumbing and sewage he was as unlearned as he was voluble.
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