With the United States containing so many world-Â­famous tourist destinations and being home to three giants of the aviation industry (US Airlines, American Airways, and Delta Air Lines), it's no surprise that the country's airports rank among the busiest in the world, weaving a complex network of routes all over the globe.
Birds, bats and other animals can be used as one of mosquito control methods, but alone they certainly wonât make a visible impact on the population of mosquitoes. Some species of birds like purple martin eat mosquitoes and these insects take few percent of their daily meal and bats, who are night hunters also feed from mosquitoes.
Probably one of the biggest misconceptions that people have about purple martins is that they eat 'thousands of mosquitoes' every day. Many years ago, an aluminum house manufacturer coined the phrase Purple Martins can eat 2000 mosquitoes a day and it's stuck ever since. Well, I hate to say it, but they are correct. Purple Martins CAN eat 2000 mosquitoes a day. Unfortunately, the truth is, they don't. In fact, the statement is very carefully worded so that the uneducated public believes that if they buy a martin house and attract purple martins, then their mosquito woes are over.