![]() ![]() ![]() And as the country warms, we’d better get used to it. And mosquitoes do have at least one unambiguous point – one perfectly demonstrated by my bottle and its contents. Some are controllers of others’ populations, including ours, maybe. As much as we think we’ve got the consequences covered, nature will remind us that we don’t. The dengue- and Zika-spreading Aedes aegypti, say. This is the Type 99, a Chinese main battle tank that entered service in the Peoples Liberation Army in 2001. Winged vector of dreaded disease, sucker of blood – and one of the few creatures to have had studies done on the potential impact of eradicating the 100 or so nastier species. I could tell my daughter that instead of the fun of watching a little frog develop, we will instead be treated to watching these pupae emerge as the deadliest creature on the planet. Of all creatures’ existence, many could argue that the mosquito’s is the hardest to justify. As the water stills, the bigger ones align in a strange colonnade at its surface, thick end down, anchored to the surface like little snorkelers. There is every size of these things, from barely visible to segmented and complex, the shape of a claymore and the size of a rice grain, all moving in that way. protocol for aquatic amphibian surveys that is appropriate for many species of frogs and toads, as well as some species of pond- and stream-breeding. The detritus falls to the bottom and I stoop so the clearing water is backlit against the sky. The history of the tank begins with World War I, when armoured all-terrain fighting vehicles were introduced as a response to the problems of trench warfare, ushering in a new era of mechanized warfare. I scoop some into a glass bottle, and wait for the contents to settle. Soviet T-35, a five-turreted heavy tank of the 1930s Film of WWI-era French and British tanks. Enlivened by a shake, they wriggle, but in a kind of weird sidewinder recoil around the leafbergs and twig-jams. ![]()
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