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This research began on December 2018 and ended December 2019, in which the monitoring and weekly review of 4 populations of Cadra cautella was conducted. This moth is able to feed from a wide range of different substrates, two sorts of substrate were designed: one based on raw food and the other con...

An increment in human tick bite cases has been noticed in Eastern Spain in the last years. Three tick species has been detached from patients assisted at Vall d’Alba Heath Center during 2018 and 2019: Dermacentor marginatus, Hyalomma lusitanicum and Rhipicephalus sanguineus. H. lusitanicum, with 204...

Effective mosquito management in urban and periurban environments is reliant in large part on larvicide applications to artificial and/or natural breeding areas. However, larvicide application is often too costly to implement in mosquito abatement programs in areas with high extensions of breeding s...

Globalization is a major causal agent for the introduction of exotic species into new territories. In this regard, it is well known that air traffic is an ideal route for the arrival of mosquitoes to new countries and even new continents. In order to evaluate the possible arrival of allochthonous ve...

The employment of electrical vaporizers to reduce the inconveniences caused by the mosquitoes constitutes a habitual practice in the Spanish homes during the summer season. Though exist different systems, the most used is the device in which the insecticide is evaporated by warming. The active matte...

Dénia (Alicante, Spain) is a middle size city located at the southeastern of the Iberian Peninsula, equidistant between the cities of Alicante and Valencia. It is close to Cape of San Antonio which is the nearest Peninsular point to the Balearic Islands. It has a temperate climate, typically Mediter...

Although there exists many studies that analyze the effectiveness of the insecticides on cockroaches in conditions of laboratory, those that study their effectiveness in sewers are less abundant. The aim of the study whose results are presented is the analysis of the effectiveness and persistence of...

The results about the analysis and characterization of several different anomalies induced on Culex pipiens L. (Diptera, Culicidae) by 2 commercial formulations widely used in the mosquitoes larvae control in Spain, Dimilin 25® and Sumilarv 10EC®, are presented. Tests and effect evaluation have been...