The annual rain fall in Florida is about 50-60 inches a year. That is the annual rain fall for most of the eastern and mid western U.S.A.. When rain comes it fills up most of the ponds, bird baths, anything that can hold water. Then mosquitoes start to breed when it becomes summer. That is not the only thing that effects the mosquito population. When high tide comes in the salt marshes it will leave small pools for the mosquitoes to breed in.
In the life cycle of the mosquito there are 5 stages. The first stage of the mosquito life cycle is the egg. The eggs of the mosquito's are laid in egg rafts. The mosquito's die if the egg raft is separated. Although some of the mosquito's live during the separation but this is very rare. The next stage of the mosquito is the larva. the larva stage is when the mosquito breaks out of the egg and looks like a small worm. It feeds and after a male he morphs into a pupa. In the pupa stage the mosquito is dormant. it only breaths through it's small little breathing tube. Then it emerges from the pupa . It slowly comes out and stays on the water held up by the surface. A female mosquito has to suck blood to lay her eggs. This is the life cycle of the mosquito.
The Fountain Bomb would be dropped from a plane above a body of water. It is shaped much like an average torpedo, although it is not an explosive. They drop it from at least 100 feet above the target water. After falling, the bomb-shaped container splits in half. A switch is flipped and a little red box inside ejects it's parachute and slowly and easily falls into the water. As soon as it hits water, the red box splits in half as well and the fountain with a water-proof battery is ejected. The fountain is connected to one of the halves by string and is completely floatable. The fountain will then turn on, sucking water in and shooting water out, causing motion. This motion or rippling effect will break open the mosquito egg raft thus killing the eggs and preventing them from hatching.
