It was beetles in Vietnam, but in the Philippines, Dr. Paulyn Jean Ubial, a ranking health official has appealed to people to spare spiders, lizards, frogs and other animals that prey on mosquitoes. This announcement was prior to a warning by the World Health Organization (WHO) about the rising incidence of dengue fever in many parts of Asia and that is including the Philippines.

According to Ubial, that there is a need to preserve these creatures that prey on mosquitoes because they help us control health menaces such as dengue-carrying mosquitoes, especially now that these mosquitoes seem to have built resistance to chemical insecticides. After all, measures such as fogging in areas where dengue is endemic, have been dismal failures in controlling the mosquito population.

Source: PDI