The Department of Public Health, through the concessionaire pest control service in the urban environment Lokímica SA, has proceeded during the last week to install multiple capture traps to monitor the presence or absence of mosquito tiger (Aedes albopictus) in Totana.
The traps were placed in the town of Totana, in the hamlet of Paretón-Cantareros and Private Pond.
both in public and in private homes.
This action already undertaken during 2014, not detected the presence of the tiger mosquito in any of the placed traps.
During this year, will remain active throughout the summer proceeding to review periodically in order to detect the presence of this mosquito.
The Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), does not require large sheets of water for farming, but it prefers small puddles of water such as containers, dishes or pots that are taken into the gardens, patios and terraces for individual pots cubes with water, small fountains and ornamental lakes, drains patios, terraces and pools with water troughs for pets, gutters, ashtrays;
so it is necessary to control that part of neighboring facilities of this kind can be taken into the homes are reviewed, avoiding small accumulations of water.
The tiger mosquito is a small mosquito, adults rarely exceed 5 mm in length, is therefore smaller than the mosquitoes that are used to seeing.
Moreover, it is a mosquito that usually has a low flight, so bites occur primarily in the legs, and sometimes can cause more obvious than those of indigenous mosquitoes inflammatory reactions.
To avoid their sting is convenient to use insect repellent when the gardens, terraces and courtyards of the houses in the twilight hours, and the adoption of measures to prevent small puddles of water is out.
In the case of suspicion of the presence of the tiger mosquito in a housing, residents can contact the City Council through the Department of Public Health.
