The ayuntamiento of Mojacar has expressed its satisfaction in the work carried out by the pest control company LOKIMICA S.A., which won the contracts for pest control in Mojacar and Vera this year. The results at the moment seem to be very positive with virtually no mosquitoes in the area at the moment.
TO achieve these results LOKIMICA S.A. has been working throughout the year using a helicopter and off-road vehicles equipped with spraying machinery. The product they have been using is not so much an insecticide as a larvicide, attacking the mosquitoes at their larval stage. The 'biopesticide' used is a microbe known as Bacillus thurigiensis, and is highly selective, affecting mosquito larvae and others of the same order but having no toxicity in other insects, birds, reptiles or mammals.
Equally important as spraying is raising public awareness of control, as many mosquito foci are situated on private property making them more difficult to control. Some tips for keeping mosquito numbers down are; keep water deposits, ponds, untreated swimming pools and other static bodies of water clean, wherever possible introduce goldfish or Gambussia as these fish eat the mosquito larvae and pupae, try to avoid abandoning things that could accumulate water and cover wells or tanks hermetically or with mosquito netting.
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