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Mosquitoes and Midges
Mosquitoes and midges are tiny insects belonging to the Diptera Order, Family Culicidae, provided with two functional wings. They are completely metamorphosed (egg, larva, pupa, and adult), depositing their eggs in clusters or isolated in slow or stagnant water. The shape and position of the larvae with respect to the surface of the water makes it possible to differentiate species.
The larvae and pupae live in water, but they must emerge to the surface to breathe. After 4 larval stages, after 4 to 10 days, the larvae become quite active pupae. After a few weeks the adult hatch. Mosquitoes have a penetrating proboscis, and the females are the ones that need to feed on blood to produce fertile eggs (to obtain protein). After mating, the female bites her host (humans or animals) and with each suction of blood it produces between 100 to 200 eggs. The male, on the other hand, feeds on plant juice and nectar since his mouth is not adapted to suck blood. The development time from egg to adult is 10 to 14 days. One of the important characteristics of this species is the ability to expect suitable climatic conditions for the eggs, which can hatch immediately or several years later.
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Habits
Mosquitoes and midges are found from the tropics to the Arctic, and they are the only way of transmission of tropical diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, dengue, Nile fever and others. However, their mere presence can be unbearable due to the permanent harassment caused by females wanting to bite and feed on blood. The main mosquito vectors are Mosquitoes (Culex spp.), Vector of Nile Fever and Filariasis, present in tropical and subtropical, hot and temperate countries; Dengue Mosquito (Aedes aegypti), vector mosquito of Dengue Fever and Yellow Fever, present in tropical, subtropical and warm countries; Malaria Mosquito (Anopheles spp.), a vector of Malaria, a disease that kills annually about two million people in the world, of which one million are children. The insect is present in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. In America, from the South of the United States and all of Latin America.
Prevention
An effective mosquito control is achieved by applying integrated control measures: environmental management (drainage of flooded areas), physical methods (mosquito nets), biological ones (Bacillus turingiensis var. Israelensis, Bacillus sphaericus) and insecticides provided technically by experts.
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