Bio control Pesticides

Thailand is a tropical country located close to the equator, it is hot all year round and during the rainy season it is very humid. The recent flood not only devastated the lives and homes of countless Thai citizens, but also polluted the streets and rivers with un-sanitized water, this damp and humid environment makes it a perfect spawning ground for mosquitoes. Mosquitoes in Thailand are known for compromising people’s health and spreading several diseases such as malaria. The solution to this could be found in bio pesticides that contain a certain type of fungus that is pathogenic to mosquitoes; this makes it an effective means to reduce to number of mosquitoes and therefore reducing malaria transmission.

According to the study the effectiveness of the fungus on mosquitoes were conducted using both laboratory as well as field studies, where experimenters model estimates the “impact of different vector control intervention on the mosquito’s life cycle and the average number of mosquitoes that survive to transmit malaria.” The results from the studies and experiments show that the technique must be widely practiced as a community in order to successfully control malaria transmissions, whether the strategies involve fungal bio pesticides or insecticide treated bed nets (ITNs). This technique could be proven to be very help in the reduction of malaria transmittance rate, this technique when applied to the citizens of Thailand could prove to be beneficial in reduction the chance of adults and children to the exposure of diseases such as malaria.

Malaria carrying mosquito

Bibliography: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091001235445.htm