Mosquito Control Plane

ID: 456 ~ Source: Image Courtesy of the Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans Public Library. ~ Date: 1977-86

This file appears in: Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever

Methods for controlling the mosquito population continued to modernize. This prop plane would fly low over fields and coat crops with pesticide so that insects could not ruin a harvest.

This file appears in: Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever

Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever

By Alison Laurence & Sarah Waits

As you stand in front of the fountain in Jackson Square or walk through the French Quarter peering into courtyards and hearing the faint trickle and splash of a fountain, think about the bugs that…