Drone deployed to fight mosquitoes in Southern California

Drone pilot John Savage loads a hexacopter drone with anti-mosquito bacterial spore pellets at the San Joaquin Marsh Reserve at University of California in Irvine, California. The drone is the latest technology deployed by the Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District to attack mosquitoes developing in marshes, wetlands, large ponds and parks. — AP

IRVINE, California: A drone flies over a peaceful Southern California marsh and unleashes a rain of larvae-killing bacterial spore pellets. Its target: a surging population of mosquitoes that can spread diseases to humans.

The drone is the latest technology deployed by the Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District to attack mosquito development in marshes, large ponds and parks.