Equipment/New Product Trials
Equipment/New Product Trials
St. Lucie County Mosquito Control is constantly looking to improve its adult mosquito control treatments, and trialing products remains crucial to insuring that potential new products are safe and effective. In the summer of 2022, we conducted two separate trials on products designed to control adult mosquitoes: ReMoa Tri adulticide and In2Care Mosquito Traps. Our ReMoa Tri study utilized a fog truck to test the knockdown ability of ReMoa Tri on non-resistant populations of Aedes taeniorhynchus, and resistant populations of Culex quinquefasciatus after 48 hours. We also conducted droplet analysis to determine how the concentrations of our treatments influenced mortality. We compared these results to current products we use, such as Aqua Zenivex and Fyfanon EW. Our In2Care trial was a two-year study that monitored the populations of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus at tire shops throughout the county before and after the introduction of In2Care traps. In addition to monitoring the population, we collected water samples from our In2Care traps and the surrounding environment to conduct larval bioassays to determine if the pyriproxyfen coated on the inside of the In2Care trap was being transferred to other sources of water by adult mosquitoes in sufficient quantity to kill larvae. We used lab reared susceptible Ae. aegypti mosquitoes to test this. Both studies showed promising results for adult control of a variety of different species of Ae. and Cx. mosquitoes.