biological mosquito management in wetlands

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Biological Mosquito Management in Wetlands:

a selective method for health care, tourism

development and acceptance of

conservation

Dipl. Biol. Hans JerrentrupSociety for Protection of Nature and Ecodevelopment, Greece

Association for Mosquito control along Morava and Thaya, Austria

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Regular pluges in settlements near to

wetlands

THE PROBLEM - MOSQUITOES

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The Torturer

Mosquitoes: without blood - no offspring!

Eggs

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The male succle only

on plants – no organs

to bite!

Only female bite

- Need blood for eggs

to develop!

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A little bit of Biology: different types of mosquitoes

Flood Mosquitoes Fever Mosquitoes House Mosquitoes

Mass reproduction in flood areas of rivers, lakes, and marshes

Eggs in humid soil – survive for 8 years

Reproduction in shallow permanent waters

Eggs singularily on watersurface

Reproduction in small permanent waterbodies like barrels, tires, bins, rainwater drainages etc inside settlements

Egg packages

Migrate more than 10 km, mass pluges in nature and settlements

migrate 1 km Migrate little, but born in settlements

Bite extremely agressivly mainly at dusk and dawn – Make your life impossible outdoors,

recently desease transmitters of viruses

Bite very painfully, mainly during the night

Malaria transmitters –about 1 mil death/year

Bite mainly during the night and enter houses

Transmit viruses

Control measures after every flood - only

Regularily all 2 weeks near settlements

Reproduce permanently –need control all 10 – 14 days

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Main breeding habitats of Mosquitoes

Flood mosquitoes Fever Mosquitoes House Mosquitoes

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Life - cycle

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Nest of house mosquito 300 - 400 eggs

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Larvae of flood mosquitoes

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Biological Mosquiro Control in Wetlands 10Pupae of mosquitoes 1-3 days

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Biological Mosquiro Control in Wetlands 11Emerging from the water…

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Worldwide about 3500 species

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Mass reproduction of flood mosquitoes

up to 200.000 larvae per square meter =

2.000.000.000 per hectar – 2 Bil. Mosquitoes !

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Mosquitoes in a changing World

Globalization brings new species and threats

• trade of goods – transport of species,

• mobility carries „ illegal immigrants „

Climate change brings health risk like Malaria

and various virus infections (Dengue 37 death

in Greece, West Nile, Chikungunya, etc:

• because pathogens and vectors expand due

to favorable climatic conditions

• imported pathogens/parasites can survive

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Biological Mosquiro Control in Wetlands 15Tiger-mosquito Japanese Mosquito

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The concept of biological mosquito control in many

European countries

Exclusively regulation of larvae inside the

breeding sites with (micro-) biological

environmentally friendly method using a

protein-cristal, produced by a bacterium:

“Bacillus thuringiensis israleliensis BTI”

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The goal: Reduction of mosquitoes

inside the settlenments by 90 %

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BTI is :

• Extremly selective to mosquitoes – only,

• Is not poisonous or acidic (WHO drinking

water reservoirs),

• No living bacillus used – only protein

cristals,

• Disappears in nature within 30 hours without

any residues or dangerous derivates,

• Water solutable and washable,

• No resitences after 33 years of usage

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Fish up to 700 Larvae/day

Amphibian larvae up to 500 Larvae/day

Water beatles> 30 Larvae/day

Water bugs> 30 Larvae/day

Water flees 1-2 Larvae/day

BTI allows the natural system to do a good part of the work!!

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The three pillars of Action

1 2 3

Ground –

„troops“

with back

spreyers

Regulation

with

Helicopter

House

mosquitoes

per

community

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1. Pilar: ground troops organized by each community

• Volunteers, students and community service employees with back-pack spreyers in case of floods,

• Regular monitoring of potential breeding sites,

• 1 responsible per community as organizer and raporteur

• All are trained every year

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Beginning with snow melt mosquitoes March - April

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2. Pilar: Control with helicopter

Only when large breedings sites are to be treated.

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Equipment for Helicopter:

• Application mecanism

• Heli GPS-System,

• Software for GPS and office,

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Each community self -organized:

• mapping / registering of breeding sites,

• regular control measures,

• involving house and ground owners,

• distribution of BTI-tablets for garden use,

• public awareness and media work

3. Pilar: House Mosquito control

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Garden areas

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Used tires as waste and as goods for trade

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Free BTI

tablets from

the

communities

for garden

use

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Radar – based

elevation cataster

with 1m resolution

elevation resolution

of 10-20 cm

= best analysis of

topography

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DTM (digital topographical model) hypsometric maps

Set of maps/municipality

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Supporting field mapping and digitalization, than elaboration of GIS maps with Arcview / ArcGis / ArcPad Sofware

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Hans Jerrentrup, Klaus Hoffmann & Norbert BeckerStrategies for environmentally friendly control of floodwater Mosquitoes in the

March Thaya Plains, Austria

+ Elevation model

+ breeding cataster

+ Ortho-photos

+ 100 m grid

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Tabu-zones for endangered bird species like eagles, herons and storks

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Very Fast raising

floods over 4,50 m

Mittelwasserstand

DANUBE

HELITroops

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Application with helicopter near the village

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Application scheme recorded from Heli-GPS

Tabu-zones for large birds

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Scientific and technical MonitoringWater, non target organisms, birds, mosquitoes

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International standards for “tolerable nuisance”

max 100 Mosquitoes per night in trap in settlements,

In natural areas and outside settlements 300-500

Mosquitoes per night and trap,

after floods ungtreated up to 106 X inside settlements....

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Experimental research about disturbance by Heli-

copter application to large birds‘ breeding behaviour

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Unfortunately others do it still with highly toxic chemicals that

are ecologically disastrous !

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