In the countries where mosquito-borne viruses like Zika, Dengue, Yellow Fever, and West Nile are prevalent, scenes like this are pretty common. Discarded tires just sitting around, ready to become an incubator for just the right type of mosquito.
With that in mind, researchers from Laurentian University, as well as Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health, and with some money from the Canadian government, have developed a trap they’ve called Ovillanta.