Culicine Mosquitoes

Species In this Group:

• Aedes aegypti
• A. albopticus
• Culex sp.
  

• Chikungunya fever
• Dengue fever
• Eastern equine encephalitis
• Japanese encephalitis
• Rift valley fever
• Venezuelan equine encephalitis
• Western equine encephalitis
• Yellow fever
• The genus Culex and its relatives, important carriers of filiarisis.

Life Cycle and Control:

• Mosquito larvae develop from eggs laid in still water but the eggs can survive drying for several months.
• Some require clean water, such as recent rainfall, but others will survive in water contaminated with organic waste.
• Free-living larvae that hatch from the eggs attach themselves to the underside of the surface and can be controlled by treating the water.
• Some species attach their eggs to the underside of water plants living in flowing water

• malathion
• pirimiphos methyl
• fenitrothion
  
• temephos
  
• propoxur
  
• permethrin
  
• deltamethrin
  
• fenthion
  
• chlorpyrifos

Category: PSM Notes