IF ONLY THERE WERE SOME INEXPENSIVE WAY TO KILL THEM IN LARGE NUMBERS: How Mosquitoes Changed Everything: They slaughtered our ancestors and derailed our history. And they’re not finished with us yet.
We almost had malaria eradicated, until the ban on DDT.
UPDATE: Weirdly, the National Geographic piece on malaria and DDT doesn’t seem to be on their website anymore. Here’s the Wayback Machine link.