This seems easily solvable, but have been lazy to do so. Will figure out and post soon.
Electric rackets are now common around here to electrocute mosquitoes. Its role is different from a mosquito repellant that just drives the mosquito away, or blinds its smell receptors. Initially i thought i was doing a great job by killing each mosquito, as i'm preventing its children and grandchildren and so on from entering the world. Thus, with my small effort i'm causing a huge effect, by stopping a chain propagation step. But someone suggested that, the effect of electrocution is annulled by the abundance of resources it has.
so, thought it would write it down as a chemical equation and write a rate equation.
female mosquito + male mosquito + resources ---> n male mosquitoes + n female mosquitoes.
And by electrocution, I'm killing only female mosquitoes, thus the electrocution is like reducing fefmale mosquito concentration in the above reaction.
I have to think if this has any caveats, and then, i'll think of solutions.
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A request...even if you are a pious vegetarian (an assumption), you'll only be doing good to the human community by killing those skanky buzzing buggers. And no matter how many your racket massacres a day, there'll be always too many getting hatched all over the globe. Like me, not everybody is good with the shots you see...and patient enough..
@nidarshana: Well, here's what i think of it. There are too many hatchin around all right. But, if the chain-propagation-step idea is significant, then it can indeed make a difference to overall mosquito population, even though by a tiny amount. In which case, there is a tinily lesser probability that i get a mosquito transmitted disease.
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