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Remove the custom of placing dishes under the pots, prevent the accumulation of water, keep plugging chlorinated pools and water tanks, basic rules to prevent reproduction and keep our homes from becoming mosquito breeding tiger
The Councillor for Health in the city of Lorca, Maria del Carmen Ruiz, has reported that the city council will enhance social awareness campaign against the tiger mosquito known by spreading tips to avoid reproduction.
This is an action that will be implemented through the media, social networks, municipal website and the distribution of more than 5,000 information leaflets which can be obtained from municipal facilities, as well as by delivery by hand markets and schools, coinciding with the entry and exit of the school.
The mayor of Health has stressed that this area of ​​the City Council established a cooperation agreement two years ago with the Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia thanks to that has been working on the implementation and development of actions for the detection and control of this mosquito.
In this sense, all efforts have focused on monitoring thereof, establishing hundreds of controls throughout the Lorca municipality (through oviposition traps) until last December were always negative.
However it detected on that date the existence of the tiger mosquito in two concrete samples.
The advice so that together we can keep very low presence are:
• Use repellent, especially in the legs.
The tiger mosquito usually nibble on areas closer to the ground body, but the whole body itches in children.
• Maintain good personal hygiene.
Sweat and attracts strong odors.
Also avoid sugary perfume.
• Put screens on the windows and appliances against insects.
• Avoid containers that can collect water such as buckets or drums, tires.
• Eliminate standing water from objects or empty it weekly: vases, ashtrays, dishes pots, plastic pools, animal troughs ...
• Close lid or mosquito nets, water tanks.
• Keep chlorine levels in your pool.
• Post ornamental fish in your garden pond or fountain, as the larvae are eaten.
• Clean gutters regularly roofs and terraces.
• Regulates drip irrigation for which there is no flooding.
The tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, is an invasive species of Asian origin, whose size is somewhat smaller than usual mosquito, being black with white spots.
It is distinguished mainly by a characteristic white stripe on the chest and head.
Raising small amounts of water, never in rivers, swamps, etc with plenty of water or active movement during the day, preferring to bite people aggressively.
Their life cycle is between 8 and 15 days.
It was in 2004 when I first tiger mosquito was detected in Spain, reaching the region of Murcia in 2011.
The University of Murcia in 2013 conducted a study of all the coast of Murcia.
In the municipality of Lorca four traps were placed in the Ramonete-Tips Calnegre axis, all negative.
In 2014 the Department of Health and the University of Murcia llevaorn out a new campaign of control, between September 31 and November 28, during which 308 samples were analyzed, with, again all negative.
That same year the City in anticipation of any incident, proceeded to the publication and distribution of information leaflets about 5,000 species.
Throughout 2015 we continued with this task, which was carried out during the period between August 31 and November 27, analyzing 106 samples of which 2 confirmed the presence of this mosquito in Lorca, whereupon the Town Hall fumigation and elimination of breeding.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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