How to Get Rid of Dengue Mosquitoes

How to get of mosquitoes

Mosquitoes has been a menace through a number of decades, spreading disease like dengue fever,chikungunya,, malaria,West Nile disease and many others. Recently in Jamaica Dengue is on the rise killing a number of individuals especially young children

Useing led Mosquito lights to get rid of them is one of the most modern ways

Types of Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes in most tropical countries can spread diseases if not properly controlled as they harbor viruses that usually carry Dengue fever, Malaria and Yellow fever.

There are over 27.000 types but they may be placed under these three major categories

• Aedes- Otherwise called "floodwater" mosquitoes because flooding accelerates the hatching of their eggs .The Aedes physical noticeable features are abdomens with pointed tips. They include such species as the yellow-fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) and the Asian tiger (mosquito Aedes albopictus).

They usually attack at dawn and in the early evening. Their bites are painful

• Anopheles- These tend to breed where there are bodies of permanent fresh water. This type of mosquito has abdomens with pointed tips. They include several species, such as the common malaria mosquito (Anopheles quadrimaculatus), that can spread malaria to humans.

• Culex- These tend to breed in quiet, still, standing water. Culex mosquitoes have abdomens with blunt tips. They include several species such as the northern house mosquito (Culex pipiens). They tend to live only a few weeks during the summer months. They persistently bite (preferring birds over humans) and attack at dawn or after dusk. Their bite is painful.

How to Get Rid Of Mosquitoes

Mosquito control Practices

If for any reason you are planning on taking a trip to a Caribbean island there are some precautions you should take.

1. Do an excellent research for disease outbreak like those mentioned above before deciding which country is safest to visit.

2. Take adequate insect repellent with you. It can be oils sprays creams or lotions

3. You can also take repellent in the forms of lights ,candles or vape

4. Make sure plants in the building you are staying are planted in soil instead of water as this is a good breeding area.

5. Keep the trough of none frost refrigerator dry.

6. Cover trash containers to keep out rain

7. Punch holes in the tins of all canned foods you eat before putting them in the garbage so mosquitoes will not hatch in them.

8. Empty and wash all containers used for the feeding of pets.

9..Make sure grass and shrubbery around the building are well trimmed

10 Container used around the house should be covered.

11. Coconut eaten on your vacation which is a good way of cooling down, husk should be cut into small pieces so it does not hold water.

12 Close doors and windows at twilight even if you have screen this is the time when you can use a glow light that attracts mosquito and other insects. If you have to be outside then the electric zapper is very useful to keep mosquitoes at bay

How to get rid of mosquitoes is an age old question. As we advance there are more and more sophisticated ways of doing so However the least expensive and environmentally effective and friendly way is prevention..

Eradication should be the answer but with climatic changes that comes with hurricane , storms and flooding it seem as if we can never get rid of them.

The onus is on every citizen to keep his or her environment clean by getting rid of water stored in container, cleaning drains and gullies.and bushing plants around homes that could harbour mosquitoes

The governments in island like Jamaica has eradication team that visit house wholes ensuring that individuals get rid water that encourages the breeding of mosquitoes. While there is the on going education .of

Individuals who are encouraged to make use of oils of various kinds,be it cooking engine to put on the top of water to suffocate mosquito larvae.

At certain interval The Ministry of Health victor control would send in a team to fog the various communities who are at risk for Dengue fever.

In developed countries like the USA, they have introduced the Bacterium called Bti.which is a bacteria found in soil and said to kill the larvae of mosquitoes and not poses any toxicity to humans .

when mosquitoes attack most.