Sentence examples for control of mosquitoes from inspiring English sources
- The biological control of mosquitoes with natural agents has proved to be more expensive and less effective than once hoped.
In the 1950s and '60s considerable progress was made in the control of mosquitoes and locust swarms, although these achievements have been partially lost by governmental instability and mismanagement and by warfare between states.
He developed synthetic juvenile hormone in insects, preventing them becoming adults, for non-toxic control of mosquitoes and fleas, developed corticosteroids for inflammation steroids had been a passion since the 1940s and devised a way of detecting opiates in urine, used by the army in Vietnam.
A program on biological control of mosquitoes, virulence prospecting and evaluation of new isolates around the world is one of the most important steps taken to determine their effect on target populations and thereby selecting the most promising strains for producing biological insecticides Litaiff et al., 2008.
IIVs have also been studied for control of mosquitoes [32], [33] and boll weevil [31], the latter work examined the virus itself, with an emphasis on the proteins that it produces as the basis for a possible biopesticide.
The control of mosquitoes transmitting infectious diseases relies mainly on the use of chemical insecticides.
Harrington, PI; Wolfner, Co-PI: Hatch Project NYC, Investigation of new targets for reproductive control of mosquito vectors.
Iturbe-Ormaetxe, I., Walker, T. & O'Neill, S. L. Wolbachia and the biological control of mosquito-borne disease.
"At present, the most important protective measures are the control of mosquito populations and the prevention of mosquito bites in at-risk individuals, especially pregnant women".
Still, control of mosquito populations is an essential component of any program designed to prevent the spread of yellow fever, particularly in urban areas.
We find that Medea and Wolbachia present the best compromise between invasiveness and containment for the six gene drive systems currently being considered for the control of mosquito-borne disease.
