• The buzz around mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases

      Date: July 16th, 2020

      Time: 10:30 am PST

      Speaker: Dr. Marcia Anderson, US Environmental Protection Agency

      Objectives:

      – Discuss mosquito feeding habits, habitats and hosts … how mosquitoes choose their feeding targets
      – Review the target vectors of mosquito-borne diseases (MBDs) including expanding mosquito threats, such as worldwide Encephalitis, the rise in EEE and WNV and all their breeding sites
      – Discuss some Universally- accepted best management practices
      – Evaluate some of the latest tools that have been recently developed to assist decision making at the local / regional level
      – Review the latest technologies being deployed for mosquito control – Including Wolbachia, GE, bacterial and fungal agents

       

       

       

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