Pesticide treatment. US Army medical entomologist at a remote patrol base in Iraq, spraying the pesticide lambdacyhalothrin on camouflage netting and

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Pesticide treatment. US Army medical entomologist at a remote patrol base in Iraq, spraying the pesticide lambdacyhalothrin on camouflage netting and shade cloth. This residual pesticide treatment reduces populations of biting flies and mosquitoes by transferring lethal doses to the insects when they rest on the camouflage material while seeking human hosts. Photographed in 2009.

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Photo credit: © SETH BRITCH/US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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