The small layered structures provide shelter and breeding areas for bats.
The UK's only known breeding areas are in the Moray Firth and Cardigan Bay in Wales.
This could reduce breeding areas for many tundra-dwelling bird species and grazing lands for caribou and other mammals.
They will do more trapping and testing of mosquitoes, as well as draining breeding areas and applying larvicides.
They advocated less drastic measures like preventing mosquitoes through modifying and preserving wetlands and removing breeding areas near homes.
By then the condition of breeding areas is again favourable for the birds.
Singapore imposes tough penalties on residents whose homes are found to be mosquito breeding areas.
"It could be that these lakes serve as a sort of insurance policy," she said, by providing breeding areas in times of drought.
Here in Sichuan province, home to some 55 million pigs and one of the world's most densely populated pig breeding areas, there is devastation.
Still, this means that the cycle could start again this summer, if the virus — which can live for long periods in water — has persisted in those breeding areas.
Instead of heading straight to breeding areas, they feed over large bodies of water where there are plenty of flying insects.
