Mosquitoes have a long evolutionary history with fossil evidence dating back over 200 million years to the Jurassic age. Over the millennia, mosquitoes have adapted to diverse environments, demonstrating remarkable survival capabilities.
One key factor contributing to their success is their ability to exploit various ecological niches. Mosquito larvae thrive in stagnant or slow-moving water, from ponds to temporary rain puddles and water-holding plants, proving adaptability to a wide range of habitats. They have also evolved to exploit a broad spectrum of hosts, including birds, reptiles and of course mammals which includes humans. Unfortunately, they are also efficient vectors for transmitting various diseases, such as Malaria, Dengue Fever, and Zika, thus posing significant risks to human health.
While scientific developments continue to provide new and diverse solutions to the problems mosquitoes pose, originating from marshy lands, industrial ponds, domestic water tanks and other man-made receptacles, they persist, resilient and highly adaptable, with a remarkable ability thrive in disparate ecosystems. Consequently, the methods and approaches that must be used to adequately control mosquitoes and to minimise the health threats they present must be as varied as the environments in which they thrive, and each situation may require a unique intelligently developed solution which may need to change over time. In smaller outdoor spaces for example mosquito traps are a good cost-effective option but if it is an enclosed space and particularly where a quick knockdown is desirable, the one may opt for indoor ULV misting. Where longer term continuous control is needed, sequential time release botanical aerosol dispersed from our proprietary ADMS is the solution. In the wide-open outdoor spaces where required coverage is exponentially larger, a wide area ULV misting may be required, a truck-mounted service is one such solution. There may even be sensitivities that restrict the use of these methods and it may become necessary to apply adulticides to contact surfaces.
