选择合适的灭蚊产品
If you’re involved in selecting the professional mosquito control products used to control nuisance populations and disease vectors, 你如何开始评估和决定将什么产品纳入你的项目? 当涉及到公共卫生蚊虫控制时，有很多选择. Here is what we recommend be considered when choosing the right products for mosquito control in your community:
考虑一下你的专业蚊子控制计划的基本方法. 你是否专注于 积极主动的 population suppression – primarily using larvicides to keep mosquito populations low from the get-go? 还是你倾向于用更 响应 approach, opting to apply adulticides to 减少 population spikes or control disease? An integrated approach supports doing both – using larvicides for preemptive suppression and adulticides to control emerging populations.
回顾项目目标, 财政和人力资源, and your local seasonality for mosquito control can often lead you towards the first important choice in public health mosquito control – larviciding, 通奸或综合控制措施.
Larviciding involves treating the water where mosquitoes lay eggs with insecticides to prevent larvae from becoming flying and biting adults. 可以把它想象成隐形的蚊子控制——它在幕后主动工作, 对你的整体计划有很大的好处. At first glance, the upfront cost of larvicide products can appear to be prohibitive. 但如果使用得当，杀幼虫实际上会 减少 the amount of adulticide treatments needed to deliver and maintain nuisance and disease control in your district or county.
Early in the season, population suppression using larvicides is typically most effective. Breeding habitats – and their ease of access for treatment – are often important factors in product selection for larvicides. 但是到了中后期, combating disease vectors and population spikes with adulticides may become more impactful.
There are three main active ingredients available in larval control products for public health mosquito control.
Mosquito adulticides are applied through an Ultra-Low-Volume (ULV) sprayer that typically puts out less than 1 oz of product per land acre. 除了经济, adulticides allow you to act fast and deliver immediate relief against nuisance or disease vectors. 当你的选民要求迅速采取行动时, an adulticide treatment is a very visible and politically “immediate” way to show you’re taking public health seriously. 另一方面, 杀奸治疗可能会遭到居民的公开反对, 从一种处理方式对环境的影响的广泛问题, 与农药接触有关的人类风险, 以及介于两者之间的一切. 因此，了解您的组件并准备好解决应用程序安全问题.
在程序中使用任何控制产品时, what do you know about how susceptible your local mosquito populations are to that product? 这更具体地适用于杀虫产品. 为什么?
Although there are many adulticide formulations available for public health mosquito control, they only fall into one of two approved classes of chemistry – organophosphates or pyrethroids. So its best practice to rotate between these two chemistry classes to prevent developing susceptibility issues and extend the life of all available products. But the reality is that many parts of the country (and world) are already experiencing very real susceptibility challenges with pyrethroid-based products, 哪些也广泛应用于农业和虫害防治, 还有蚊虫控制.
While there is a race to find a new class of chemistry for public health mosquito control products, 我们必须明智地管理好我们的两个化学班! Having field trial data or indicator results from bottle bioassay tests that show the susceptibility levels inside your district or county can go a long way in making wise product selections for mosquito control.
MCMA在过去的几年里一直在计划, 启动, 并在蚊子控制项目中改进他们的无人机策略. 今天, we’re exploring some of the key factors contributing to its success: The inception of their drone program, 选择无人机而不是飞机的理由, 使用的工具, 无人驾驶飞机的选择, 以及所使用产品的重要性, 在这种情况下, 乐虎网的自然G30.
对乐虎网, utilizing the principles of green chemistry isn’t just about compliance; it\’s about fundamentally altering how we approach chemical formulation and engineering to protect both human health and the environment. We treat it as a call for innovation and progress— to create mosquito control solutions that are economically viable, 环境可持续性, 对社会负责.
