Entomological handbook for Aedes aegypti eradication

"Eradication of an insect from a large geographical area is a most difficult entomological accomplishment. Moderately effective measures often suffice to reduce insect populations to an inoffensive level, but eradication requires a sharpening and enlarging of all abatement activities. Therefore the Andes aegypti eradication program requires sincere devotion to duty and the best efforts of well trained, alert workers. This handbook provides the professional worker with information about this mosquito, its identification, significant habits, and the equipment and techniques used to seek out infestations, take and preserve samples, and identify the specimens. As mosquito populations are reduced, the task of the field inspector becomes increasingly more difficult and the role of identifications becomes even more significant in verifying eradication. The able supervisory inspectors and taxonomists will not confine their studies solely to this handbook, but will seek out and study other references, and will strengthen their abilities with field observations that may disclose new knowledge significant to the Program. " - p. 1Introduction -- Distribution -- Biology and habits of Aedes aegypti -- Life cycle -- Other common mosquitoes breeding in containers -- Mosquito collection and identification -- Pictoral key to some common mosquito larvae found in artificial containers -- Key to larval mosquitoes found in receptacles -- Pictoral key to some common adult mosquitoes associated with Aedes aegypti -- Key to adults of receptacle-breeding mosquitoesHarry D. Pratt, Kent S. Littig, Milton E. Tinker."Preliminary issue, September 1966."Includes bibliographical references (p. 43)

The Aedes aegypti Eradication Program

Introduction -- History -- -- How the program works -- Organization -- Field operations -- Working with the community -- -- The program thus far -- Special problems -- Research.Two years ago the Public Health Service began a program to eradicate Aedes aegypti (the yellow fever mosquito) from all the still-infested areas under United States responsibility. This mosquito is notorious as a vector of human diseases: of yellow fever, historically one of the most dreaded pestilential diseases; of dengue fever, often called "breakbone fever" because of the pain its victims suffer; and of other hemorrhagic fevers, for example, a severe new type now epidemic in the Orient and moving slowly westward. Here is the story, briefly, of why this mosquito must be eradicated, of how the eradication program works, and of what has been done thus far