mosquito-breeding

Dams and irrigation canals provide ideal habitat for snails that serve as the intermediate reservoir host species for schistosomiasis; irrigated rice fields increase in the extent of mosquito-breeding surface, increasing the chance of transmission of mosquito-borne malaria, lymphatic filariasis, Japanese encephalitis, and Rift Valley fever.

Ecosystems and Human Well-being Synthesis~ Appendix A. Ecosystem Service Reports 2008

The NPB said Kruger National Park management routinely treated all accommodation units and mosquito-breeding sites in the vicinity of rest camps.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

The pond in the middle of the campus, once renowned for its elegant lotuses and goldfish, was now a stinking, mosquito-breeding swamp.

Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

The pond in the middle of the campus, once renowned for its elegant lotuses and goldfish, was now a stinking, mosquito-breeding swamp.

WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA CHANG, JUNG 1991

The pond in the middle of the campus, once renowned for its elegant lotuses and goldfish, was now a stinking, mosquito-breeding swamp.

Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

Surrounding the edifice is a deep, unhealthful, mosquito-breeding moat which is all a mediæval moat should be, but which is actually no great attribute to the place considering its disadvantages.

Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

Under his direction they cut down all of the plant life whose upturned leaves or fronds held stagnant, mosquito-breeding water, climbed tall palms to brush out the rain water accumulated in the concave depressions where frond joins trunk, even twisted off the cuplike scarlet blossoms from hibiscus shrubs.

Terry A Tale of the Hill People Charles Goff Thomson

In this capacity they would report to the public health committee of the local league all instances of badly ventilated homes or schools, mosquito-breeding spots, accumulations of rubbish and filth, or any other conditions menacing the health of the colored citizens.

Booker T. Washington Builder of A Civilization Emmett Jay 1916

In this capacity they would report to the public health committee of the local league all instances of badly ventilated homes or schools, mosquito-breeding spots, accumulations of rubbish and filth, or any other conditions menacing the health of the colored citizens.

Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization Lyman Beecher Stowe 1915

First she cleaned house, providing good surface drainage, an excellent filtered water supply from the river in place of her old mosquito-breeding cisterns, and modern sewers in place of cesspools.

American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913