Tsukamoto M, Horio M
J UOEH. 1985 Sep 1;7(3):299-308. doi: 10.7888/juoeh.7.299.
Attempts to control mosquito-borne disease using predatory mosquitoes such as Toxorhynchites larvae have led to indefinite results for many years, mainly because of the lack of adequate species or strains of Toxorhynchites. Recent improvements of natural and artificial matings of adults in the laboratory and of mass breeding of larvae, however, have made it possible to establish laboratory colonies of most Toxorhynchites species whenever and wherever necessary. Effects of biological control by releasing large numbers of Toxorhynchites mosquitoes should be reevaluated from a new concept of comparing the usual chemical insecticides with the living and flying "insecticides" which cause no environmental pollution.
多年来，尝试利用诸如巨蚊幼虫等捕食性蚊子来控制蚊媒疾病，结果一直不明确，主要原因是缺乏足够的巨蚊种类或品系。然而，最近实验室中成年巨蚊自然交配和人工交配以及幼虫大规模饲养方面的改进，使得在任何需要的时候和地点建立大多数巨蚊种类的实验室种群成为可能。应从一个新的概念来重新评估释放大量巨蚊进行生物防治的效果，即将常规化学杀虫剂与不会造成环境污染的活的、会飞的“杀虫剂”进行比较。
