Tiny terror meets its match


Major pest: Aedes mosquitoes are the primary vectors of chikungunya.— AFP

Scientists battling the country’s largest chikungunya epidemic are releasing swarms of giant cannibal mosquitoes whose larvae devour the smaller insects spreading the debilitating disease. 

These so-called “elephant mosquitoes”, measuring nearly 2cm in length, are voracious predators.

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