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Insects and Relatives

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Mosquitoes

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Table 3. Breakdown of Expense Items For Established Mosquito Abatement Program [Image: table 3]Table 3 shows the contribution of each expense item as a percentage of total costs when capital outlay is removed from the analysis. The reason for removing this item from the analysis is the high degree of variability that can exist for these items. Newly developed abatement districts would have drastically different capital outlay requirements than the established districts surveyed. In addition, there can be a high degree of variability in capital outlay for districts given funding availability. A newly established district may be forced to minimize initial capital investments because of limitations in funding.