Author: Marshall Laird

Publisher: London ; Toronto : Academic Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 474

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This book supplements the information given in Volume 1 on the conventional methods of chemical control, with accounts of the ecological basis and economic aspects of bio-control. Special attention is given to innovative approaches such as the use of entomopathogenic bacteria. The other control methods discussed include the use of appropriate insect growth regulators, organo-phosphate and carbamate poisoning of adults and ways in which communities can help to reduce the sources of favourable environments for mosquito reproduction.**FROM THE PREFACE: As this second and last volume of Integrated Mosquito Control Methodologies goes to press, it would be heartening to be able to record a rapidly diversifying application of such solutions to pest and vector problems. Regrettably, this is not yet possible. Our contributors have proffered much information which will serve as the basis for future such methodologies, with attention to relevant application technology, and a number of the examples they furnish illustrate ways in which two or more basically different approaches (chemical, environmental, or biological) have been purposely or fortuitously combined in the past. Yet in assembling the chapters, it proved impossible to obtain any accounts of integrated control projects so far designed and implemented for mosquito suppression on a larger scale than that of the operation against Aedes aegypti on the atoll of Funafuti (human population circa 2000), Tuvalu, an outline of which concludes this work.**Nevertheless, this can serve as a model for far larger undertakings employing the same innovative and conventional control agents (all of them currently available commercially) and appropriate new ones as they are developed, also for similar approaches to public relations and community involvement. For it is confidently believed that the Tuvalu methodology could be adapted with equal effect against other Culicidae of health importance, from the indigenous tropical Pacific container-breeders (e.g., Aedes polynesiensis), transmitting Bancroftian filariasis, to small-island populations of such surface-water breeders as the Melanesian malaria vectors of the Anopheles farauti complex--where exophily would pose new adulticiding problems, while the larval habitats would be open to a wider range of biocontrol agents, including appropriate larvivores, the importation of which would be unlikely to pose threats to the economy in islands lacking the natural basis for a freshwater fishery. We specify small-island populations of vector mosquitoes in this context because the simplification of ecological circumstances pertinent to disease transmission, and of public relations issues involving the humans being protected, make it far easier to develop integrated control methodologies there than in continental areas with heavy urbanization.