The Department of Health warns against leaving stagnant water on patios and balconies and in gardens where the tiger mosquito can breed.
Recommendations include changing the water at least once a week in all pets bowls, plates under pot plants and in supports for sunshades, where the mosquito may breed, in order to prevent being bitten and the transmissions of illnesses.
This environmental hygiene should be respecgted in public spaces and private homes, however, the majority of the breeding concentrations are in and around dwellings. For this reason the Department urges homeowners to avoid accumulating water and to carry out adequate treatments to avoid the mosquito breeding.
To this end it is essential not to leave rubbish, drinks cans, buckets or bottles, or any other container where water may gather, lying around. Any water container for pets etc should be emptied and filled with fresh water at least weekly.
To this end it is essential not to leave rubbish, drinks cans, buckets or bottles, or any other container where water may gather, lying around. Any water container for pets etc should be emptied and filled with fresh water at least weekly.
The reason for these precautions is that through its bites the female obtains the blood necessary to produce eggs, which she then deposits in small quantities of water. The life cycle is in two phases and the first, in water, is completed in six or seven days when the eggs transform into lava. In the second phase the lava becomes an into an insect which becomes the adult mosquito.
The tiger mosquito is essentially an urban species, active during the day where it shelters in the shade.
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