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The Department of Environment and Planning Abarán City Council are planning a plan of action to minimize the effects of mealybug pest control by biological treatment based on the fumigation of drainers municipal land located in vegetable oils without chemical insecticides to not harm the health of people or the environment.
This measure will take place given the current level of infestation in the municipality of Abarán.
Once the treatment facility shall give the yellow sheets for monitoring the flight of males.
Thus, making weekly counts we check if the plague is taking hold again, or conversely, decrease.
However, any individual can directly combat this scourge:
1.
If they are small and scattered cottony masses must be removed manually by rubbing with a stiff brush with soapy water to completely remove the cotton.
2.
If the infestation is widespread, should be cut across the affected area and buried in situ.
It is important not to throw trash and the nymphs remain alive a long time and might escape during transport to the landfill, infesting pest-free zones.
According to information provided by the Campaign for mealybug control designed by experts from the Ministry of Agriculture and Water, in the summer of 2007 saw in Murcia and for the first time in Spain, a strong attack drainer cottony scale insects of the genus Dactylopius (Hemiptera, Dactylopidae), known as wild cochineal.
In fact they have been known popularly as "mosquitoes in the drainers."
It should be emphasized that this is not mosquito and which in no way can bite people, the red color left on the skin is acid carmine and not blood.
The females are wingless and take shelter under cottony masses where they remain quiet and lay eggs, feeding on Palera and drying completely, sometimes.
The males of the cochineal, they are flying but have no mouthparts and do not have any defensive sting like wasps or bees, so the bite is impossible.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Abarán
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