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Date Published: 23/09/2021
ARCHIVED - Drones and helicopters help reduce mosquito warnings by 48 per cent in Murcia
Citizen warnings of rats, cockroaches and other vermin have fallen in 2021
The number of citizen warnings about plagues of mosquitoes in Murcia city has fallen 48% this year, mainly due to increased bug spraying. Pest control services from the city council have even been using drones to spray and locate mosquito outbreaks in areas that are difficult to access.
Pest control measures and rodent extermination form a part of the town council’s regular health maintenance work, which has also seen citizen warnings for cockroaches and rats decrease by 15% in 2021.
As well as the drones, Murcia city council uses all-terrain vehicles, electric vehicles and powerful spraying cannons to detect and wipe out the dreaded tiger mosquito and other pests in the city and surrounding areas, and they even have a helicopter. The work is supported by a vet, a doctor, 3 biologists and more than 20 technicians.
The tiger mosquito, which is endemic to Asia and an invasive species in Spain, is the only species in the country that can transmit dengue fever to humans. While it is practically impossible to eliminate the species from the Murcia region altogether, authorities do their best to control tiger mosquito populations.
They are more dangerous than other types of mosquitoes because they tend to bite humans more than once and bite other mammals and birds too, thereby spreading diseases.
In 2021 so far, two of the three yearly programmed pest extermination initiatives have been carried out in the municipal sewage network. This has included the checking and disinfection of 80,000 wells and 73,000 storm drains, canals, ditches, riverbeds and ramblas.
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