Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes belong to the family culicidae of order diptera. They have four distinct stages in their life cycle namely egg, larva, pupa & adult. All insects including mosquitoes need three things for survival air, food & water.

In Sri Lanka there are three kinds of mosquitoes, widely spread all over the island
 

Mosquito Caste	Species	Common Name	Diseases
Genus Culex	300	House Mosquito	Encephalitis, Filariasis
Genus Aedes	350	Malaria Mosquito	Human Malaria
Genus Anopheles	500	Dengue Mosquitoes	Dengue, Yellow fever, Chikungunya

 Integrated Mosquito Management System

The goal of IMMS is to prevent or reduce problems caused by mosquitoes. The best control of mosquitoes is prevention.


  Treatment Method

The treatment will be carried out using the residual insecticide by highly trained technicians according to the highest standards in the industry. The treatment will be carried out on all infested areas & breeding spots to control the mosquitoes & special treatment will be carried out to destroy the larva.

        •   Larvicide’s Treatment
        •   Fogging Treatment


 Facts about Mosquitoes

        •   The average lifespan of a female mosquito is 3 to 100 days; the male is 10 to 20
              days.

        •   Mosquito adults feed on flower nectar and juices of fruits for flight energy. The
              female requires a blood meal for egg development.

        •   Depending on the species, female mosquitoes may lay 100 to 300 eggs at a time
              and may average 1,000 to 3,000 during their life span.

        •   Mosquitoes remain within 1-mile radius of their breeding site.

        •   Several species of mosquito are known carriers of significant disease of human and
              domestic animals


        •   Mosquito-borne diseases have changed the course of history many
              times:

                      o  1542 - Hernando DeSoto in Florida lost half of his troops in Florida to Yellow
                           Fever

                      o  1741 - England sent Admiral Edward Vernon to Mexico and the Louisiana                            Territory with 27,000 men - 20,000 were killed by Yellow Fever

                      o  1802 - the brother of Napoleon, Charles LeClerc, came to the Louisiana                            Territory with 33,000 soldiers and lost 29,000 of them to Yellow Fever

                      o  1914 - in the United States there were 600,000 cases of Malaria, most in                            Florida and California - by 1930 this number still was over 6,000 cases per
                           year

                      o  1923 - Russia had 5 million cases of malaria with over 60,000 deaths

                      o  2002 - in Africa, malaria still kills as many as half of all children by the age
                           of 5 years in many of the under-developed areas