About Trudy Rilling-Collins

Trudy Rilling-Collins, better known as “The Mosquito Lady”, is the founder of Mosquito Lady Consulting, dedicated to replacing chemical pesticides with environmentally responsible solutions.

Great Community Support for the Trash Clean Up on Kamadhoo!

Trash Cleanup at Kamadhoo - Saturday, 14 September:   Trash Cleanup at Kamadhoo - Saturday, 14 September:   Trash Cleanup at Kamadhoo - Saturday, 14 September:   Trash Cleanup at Kamadhoo - Saturday, 14 September:   Aerial view of Kamadhoo - 15 September   Atoll view from Kamadhoo, Landaa in the distance - 15 September

Recycling and Sorting Trash at Dhonfanu!

A beautiful day at Dhonfanu. Many people came together to clean the garbage from the house yards and streets! We collected 5 and 1/2 jumbo bags of recycling! And bags, and bags, and bags of trash. A beautiful day in the neighborhood, with some of my favorite mosquito control buddies.

Final week and then some!

So, we're down to the last week. I've been working with Sean the past two weeks in Goidhoo and I'm currently partnered with James in Dhonfanu. They're both really cool guys and they're great people to work with. It helps to have good partners when your island is so challenging. Let me start with Goidhoo. [...]

Week one on Kendhoo!

Working on the island with Mark and Piko has been really great so far. It’s about the same size as Hithaadhoo but it does have a lot more trash and coconut shells, which means more spots for mosquitos to breed. We started work on Monday because of the election, giving us one less day to [...]

Goidhoo Project: Week 2

So, as I was saying, the first week went pretty well! Dan and I were preparing to take a welcomed off day to explore Fuladhoo, when we got a request from Goidhoo to reschedule the island cleanup-to the next morning-due to political activities. Without a better option for the community, we decided to go for [...]

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