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Published online 18 May 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010524-1
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Starch collars dangerous pests
Powdered starch could clean-up mosquito control. Sprinkled on mosquito breeding grounds, it forms a temporary film on the water surface that smothers these blood-sucking pests without affecting other pond life1.
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