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The Department of Health has launched this month larviciding to be applied weekly until November at the Regional Park of Salinas y Arenales de San Pedro to avoid mosquito infestations San Pedro del Pinatar, April 26, 2011 The Department of Health of Municipality of San Pedro del Pinatar has launched a treatment for biological control of mosquitoes in the Regional Park of Salinas y Arenales de San Pedro, due to the inconvenience caused by these insects in the locals.
Over the past few weeks the council of Health received numerous citizen complaints about the proliferation of mosquitoes, as reported to the Directorate General of Cultural Heritage, which manages the park and requested it to solve the problem, since the natural area of ​​competence .
However, the City Council, following the refusal of the Directorate General, has taken this campaign of biological control, which consists of a weekly disinfection treatments based on biological larvicides in the perimeter canal, which surrounds this area, and areas flooded.
The treatment is applied from April to November, coinciding with the period of increased presence of mosquitoes in the area, due to heavy rains and temperatures.
Wetlands, as the case of the Salinas de San Pedro, often have high densities of mosquitoes, as these insects have a larval development in the aquatic environment, being the areas most conducive to breeding ponds and low areas salinididad flooding after rains.
Therefore, from the Department of Health has contracted the service of a specialist company for eight months, conduct a biological control of mosquitoes in the area.
So, apply weekly by spraying larvicide treatments, consisting of Bacillus Thuringuienses in all flooded areas, wetlands and channel dry.
These spaces will be reviewed after days of rain and reapplies the same treatment.
In specific cases where there is a large concentration of mosquitoes, also made adulticide treatments, with products based on low-dose cypermethrins.
In addition to the application of this treatment in the Park of Las Salinas, the Department of Health urges residents to take precautions in areas where water usually accumulates.
So recommends a review of the lids of water tanks, checking that a tight seal, which clogged septic tanks and cesspools, sealing the union to prevent the formation of farms, and to eliminate pockets of stagnant water, and untreated pools, puddles, buckets, etc.
In addition, remember that you can eliminate mosquito larvae by larvae feeding small fish, which can be found in streams, ponds or at retail.
Another option is to introduce a larvicide deposits safe and easy to apply, as temephos sand granules or Bacillus Thuringienses.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar
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