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There’s likely a lot less of them and they’re not moving around, making it easier to eradicate.

Have a team of people hit the 50 known hiding spots in your “county/district/diocese sized equivalent” every season is an achievable plan.

The article says that knowing the hiding places could inform efforts to kill them in the dry season. I assume that it would be easier with more time to do that in the dry season, as soon as they start breeding again you're batteling an exponential increase. Maybe if one would know what kind of place they look for to spend the dry season, traps could be built?

It also says that knowing that they stay around is good evidence that spraying insecticide at the start of the wet season is a good strategy.

Knowing that they exist, and what they are, is surely a step in the direction of intervention.