A US company, SpringStar Inc., has launched a new device intended to kill the Aedes mosquitoes that spread dengue fever. The device, known as the ‘Tiger Trap’ exploits the mosquitoes behaviour of laying eggs in containers. Insects entering the traps are poisoned by small insecticide doses. This is considered preferable to broadcasting insecticide throughout the environment.

The company describes the product as, ‘A novel, patented mosquito-killing technology developed by US Army researchers under a long-term, joint-development agreement between the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, and the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine’. It says it is manufacturing the trap ‘for the Army, US mosquito abatement districts, and consumer sales.’

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