CHENABNAGAR
Speaker at an anti-dengue seminar held at Govt Postgraduate TI Collage Chenab Nagar drew attention to eradicate mosquito by adopting selective, targeted and natural method. Addressing the participants, keynote speaker Prof Waqar said there were about 100 trillion mosquitoes of 35,00 species in the world. Mosquito infect 700 million people annually with fatality to the tune of 3 million per year.
In order to control mosquito-born disease like Dengue, malaria, filaria, etc. Mosquito population must be wiped off but that is not feasible practically. The pragmatic and prudent approach is to differentiate between friendly and foe mosquitoes. There are three major species culex, anopheles and aedes. Culex mosquitoe are above 90% that are harmless for human. Culex mosquito are mostly brown or grey with stout body, unspotted wings and body and its sitting posture is parallel to the surface.
He went to say that Anopheles (which cause malaria) have palps which are as long as proboscis and have black and white scales on the wings. Anopheles can easily be identified by their typical sitting posture, abdomen sticking up in the air, making an angle of 45 degree with the surface.
Aedes, which cause dengue, are typical small and have black and white stripes marking on their bodies and legs. Aedes have a white “lyre” on their thorax with two yellow chords in the centre.
Aedes rest with abdomen parallel to surface and head pointing downward. Aedes form concourse never exceeding six in number. By this differentiation, it becomes easy to obliterate fewer mosquito successfully. He pointed out that the natural way to kill mosquitoes was the use slap or clap. It is an aged long, effective, and innate way of killing mosquito, bestowed by Allah the Almighty.
Whenever mosquito sits on any part of body, human slaps that portion unconsciously even during sleep, killing her in most of cases. So, we should follow nature’s impregnated innate reaction of slapping to kill mosquito.