2. Blooming plants attract bees, butterflies, and other pollinators that dragonflies like to eat. You might try black-eyed susan, joe pye weed, swamp milkweed, butterfly bushes, anise hyssop, yarrow, turtlehead, tickseed, coreopsis, hollyhocks, or aster (which comes in a myriad of colors/varieties.). 3.
Insecticide Treated Nets The Anopheles is one of the best known types of mosquito because of its role in the transmission of malaria. Since the Anopheles mosquito bites between dusk and dawn, sleeping under mosquito nets treated with insecticides provides critical protection against the spread of malaria.
At the time, doctors disagreed on how to stop either yellow fever or malaria; mosquitoes had not yet been accepted as the primary transmitters. Hospitals treated patients with high doses of whiskey, eggnog, or by rubbing a solution of kerosene and oil on the skin.There were mustard baths and ice baths.ellow fever's gruesome symptoms and high death rate were so horrifying to American canal workers that even a whisper of an outbreak sent boatloads of men fleeing. Early symptoms of yellow fever were headaches, fever, and muscle pain.