March 22, 2005

AMCD’s Press Release:

AMCD’s Mosquito Control Policy and Strategy

Anastasia Mosquito Control District (AMCD) of St. Johns County conducts mosquito control service in St. Johns County based on Florida Mosquito Control Law & Regulation, Chapter 388 and Code 5E-13.

Our mission: To control disease-transmitting and pestiferous mosquitoes, applying methods and materials that provide maximum protection to humans and the environment, employing sound scientific principles, knowledge and training, supported by qualified experience, impacting both humans and the environment with the least possible hazard in achieving and maintaining such control.

Our policy: To serve the citizens of St. Johns County with the highest standards of courtesy, professional service, and consideration of their needs.

Our Strategy: Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is our primary strategy for mosquito control. We emphasize: personal and community protection, and mosquito prevention (5-D’s) through public education; Larval mosquito control through environmental manipulation and biological control methods; and the last choice for adult mosquito control is to safely spray pesticides when mosquito-borne diseases and heavy mosquito populations threaten our citizens.

 

March 22, 2005

AMCD’s Press Release

Mosquito-Borne Disease Surveillance in St. Johns County in 2004 and 2005

AMCD uses 60 sentinel chickens (6 per site for 10 sites) and mosquito pools (3 sites) to monitor mosquito-borne diseases in St. Johns County .

2004:   15 positive sentinel chickens with EEE (Eastern Equine Encephalitis); 13 positive with WNV (West Nile Virus).

 Three mosquito pools were tested for positive with California Group Virus.

2005: Four positive sentinel chickens with EEE in January and February, 2005. One positive sentinel chicken with Highlands J. Virus. This means that there is still EEE activity during winter in our area.

Using the 5-D’s (Dusk & Dawn; Dress, Deet, and Drain) for personal/community protection and prevention. Contact local mosquito control district/station for an inspection and service at 904/471-3107 or visit our web page for more information (http://www.anastasiamcd.org/).

 

March 22, 2005

AMCD’s Press Release

American Mosquito Control Association’s (AMCA) Symposium titled: Enhancing Mosquito Control Without Pesticides

The AMCD Entomologist, Dr. Rui-De (Rudy) Xue and USDA/Mosquito & Fly Unit’s Entomologist, Dr. Dan Kline co-organized and will hold a special symposium on “Enhancing Mosquito Control Without Pesticides” for the 71st Annual Meeting of the AMCA, Vancouver , Canada , April 1-7, 2005. The purpose is to share research & experience about mosquito control without pesticides; to promote new techniques/methods (non pesticides) for the control of mosquito-borne diseases and vector mosquitoes; and to reduce / limit pesticide application for mosquito and mosquito-borne disease control. The symposium will have 13 speakers (attached program) from 6 countries around the world. The major topics include new traps & trapping technology, toxic baits, personal protection, bed net treatments, genetically modified mosquitoes, acoustic larvicide, microbial/biopesticides, and community participation methods /techniques for mosquito-borne disease and vector mosquito control. The articles will be collected and published in the Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association.

71^st Annual Meeting of the American Mosquito Control Association, Vancouver , Canada , April 1-7, 2005

Symposium:   Enhancing Mosquito Control without Pesticides     1:30–2:45, April 5, 2005

Organizers and Moderators:   Dr. Rui-De Xue and Dr. Dan L. Kline               (Plaza A)

1:30     118. Symposium Introduction. Rui-De Xue

1:35     119. Traps and trapping techniques for adult mosquito control. Daniel L. Kline

1:50     120. Toxic baits and bait stations against adult mosquitoes. Rui-De Xue  and Dan Kline

2:05     121. Personal protective measures and repellents used against mosquitoes in the US military.
L.T.C. Mustapha Debboun  and Jerome A. Klun

 2:20     122. Insecticide treated bednets. Chris Curtis

 2:50     124. Behavioral responses of mosquitoes to natural product repellents and attractants. J. Zhu  et al.

3:05  BREAK

3:30     150. Developing resistance to arboviruses in genetically modified mosquitoes. Ken E. Olson

3:45     151. Prospects of CuniNPV for mosquito control.
James J. Becnel

4:00     152. Overview of biopesticides for mosquito larval control. Tom Floore

4:15     153. Acoustic larvicide, acoustic lethal dose analysis. Herbert Nyberg  and Alex Erdmann

4:30     154. Source reduction in Florida 's salt marshes: Management to reduce pesticide use and enhance the resource. Douglas B. Carlson

4:45     155. Microbial control of nuisance and vector mosquitoes. Norbert Becker

5:00     156. Mosquito management without pesticide application in China . Tongyan Zhao  et al.

5:15     157. Community participation and appropriate technologies for dengue vector control at transmission foci in Thailand . P. Kittayapong  et al.