Mosquito Information

Only the females bite!

Only the female mosquito bites. Male mosquitoes feed primarily on flower nectar, whereas female mosquitoes require a blood meal to provide protein for their eggs. Typically, they consume more than their own body weight in blood. Different species of mosquito prefer to feed at different times of the day or night.

Midges and sandflies, as well as mosquitoes, locate you by sight, smell and by sensing the heat radiating from your body. As well as being able to see you with their large compound eyes, they can smell the carbon dioxide you exhale and the lactic acid in your perspiration. What's more, they detect movement by infra-red radiation. This ability to sense you in three different ways means that mosquitoes can find you from up to 36 metres (120') away.

Methods of mosquito and midge control

The key to mosquito control is adulticiding the pests. This simply means killing the adult insects so that they don't have the opportunity to breed. Your local council helps to do this by using larvicides. Larvicides are simply chemicals that kill an insect's eggs or larvae. This might be effective in the short term, but it fails to eradicate an insect population in the long term. The Mosquito Control System breaks the breeding cycle of these insects by eradicating the adult females before they have a chance to lay their eggs. The Mosquito Control System not only controls the local insect population but also prevents new populations from establishing. Typically, most mosquitoes and other biting insects do not migrate. 90% live and feed within 100 metres (300') from where they breed (swamp mosquitoes are an exception) and the other 10% are blown in from neighbouring areas by the wind. By attracting and eradicating these renegade mosquitoes, the Mosquito Control System prevents new populations establishing. Mosquitoes produce up to 3000 offspring during their six-week lifecycle, so for every mosquito killed it prevents 3000 offspring being born.

Biting insect fact: Carbon dioxide

In recent years, scientists have established that blood-sucking insects are attracted to their blood meal by the smell of carbon dioxide. That is, the exhaled breath of humans and animals. But while they are attracted by short bursts of carbon dioxide, continuously released carbon dioxide has the opposite effect. Carbon dioxide released mainly from the breath but also from the skin serve as a long-range airborne attractant and can be detected by biting insects at distances of up to 36 metres (120').

Biting insect fact: Lactic acid

Lactic acid is produced as a result of vertebrate muscle metabolism, and is released through human and animal perspiration. Mosquitoes have chemoreceptors on their antennae that are stimulated by the scent of acid. And, although humans are unable to smell it, blood-sucking insects find it irresistible.

Biting insect fact: Heat & Moisture

At close range, skin temperature and moisture serve as attractants. It has been known for many years that females of many species of mosquitoes will be attracted to a source of heat via infra-red radiation, in particular warm moisture

Biting insect fact: Spectrum & Ultraviolet light

Adult insects possess both compound eyes and ocelli. Compound eyes are used for navigation and sensing movement, patterns, contrast and colour, while ocelli are believed to sense light levels. Research has found that the retina of the compound eye in differing species of flying insects is sensitive to differing wavelengths of light.

For further facts and information, visit: American College of Physicians

Mosquito Diseases

Mosquitoes are more than just a nuisance, they can be life threatening. The spread of mosquito borne diseases, such as Malaria, Dengue fever, West Nile Virus, Rift Valley Fever, Japanese Encephalitis, Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Ross River virus, Murray Valley encephalitis, Barmah Forest virus, Yellow Fever and many other forms of fever, are on the increase the world over. In fact, worldwide, mosquitoes transmit disease to more than 700,000,000 people annually, and will be responsible for the deaths of 1 out of every 17 people currently alive.

According to reports from the World Health Organization, malaria causes as many as 3,000,000 deaths annually, and 2.5 billion people around the world are at risk from Dengue fever. Each year, there are tens of millions of cases, and up to 95% are children.

Many of these same diseases are on the increase world wide, as mosquitoes become increasingly tolerant of current methods of insect control. With Mosquito Control System, you can help protect your family against the threat of mosquito borne diseases.

It's not just humans who are at risk. Mosquitoes are the carriers of heartworm, one of the most common killers of family pets, as well as a number of other potentially life threatening diseases. Some species of mosquito seasonally switch hosts giving them the ability to transmit disease from animals to humans.

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What Our Customers Say

"We set the Mosquito Management System up to run for 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the evening. After the first day's run, I was curious as to the number of mosquitoes the trap had caught. It was impressive, I counted roughly 500. By the end of the week we had literally caught thousands."

Mr. Gordon Badger
Lake Joseph, Cottager

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