Adulticiding – Citrus County Mosquito Control District

Adulticiding

What is Adulticiding?

adulticiding is controlling adult mosquitoes.

Adulticiding is not as ecologically safe as larviciding, therefore it is used as a "last resort" approach. It is currently the only treatment for control of adult mosquitoes. Our goal at CCMCD is to control the population of mosquitoes before they even become flying, biting, disease spreading adults. Better larviciding techniques and good mosquito surveillance help us achieve this goal. Although the mosquito industry's tactics, products, and technologies do get better every year, it's nearly impossible to larvicide all wetlands of Citrus County that are capable of breeding mosquitoes. This makes the adulticiding program necessary for us to continue controlling the adult mosquitoes around populated areas of the county and during large rain events.

What other equipment do we use?

ULV fog trucks are the most used and recognized equipment for adulticiding in the past. Today we use a variety of equipment to control adult mosquitoes. The fog trucks are still used more than any other piece of equipment, but overall we adulticide less today and keep the mosquito population lower than in the past.

ULV or Cold Ultra Low Volume Spraying is a widely used form of a mosquito fog. It uses a type of mist sprayer or air pump to disperse the product in the air as a fog. The machines are calibrated and the products are measured in micrometer sized droplets. Some ULV machines are powered by electric fans and electric mist sprayers making them very quite and economical to use during late hours of the night.

What other equipment do we use?

ULV or Cold Ultra Low Volume Spraying is a widely used form of a mosquito fog. It uses a type of mist sprayer or air pump to disperse the product in the air as a fog. The machines are calibrated and the products are measured in micrometer sized droplets. Some ULV machines are powered by electric fans and electric mist sprayers making them very quiet and economical to use during late hours of the night.