The use of unmanned aircraft to regulate the number of mosquitoes

Abstract

To improve the control measures against larvae of mosquitoes which are vectors of the most dangerous infectious diseases such as malaria, tularemia, various fevers (West Nile fever, yellow fever, dengue, Chikungunya, Zika and others) on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus, unmanned aircraft «Odonata agro» 0501 and 1001 and «DJI Agras T-20» were used in 2020. Larvicides from the group of pyrethroids (cypermethrin), regulators of insect development (methoprene) and the microbiological formulation «Bactitsid» based on the entomopathogenic bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis var. israеlensis have shown the high efficacy when used by unmanned aircraft. Keywords: mosquitoes, larvicides, unmanned aircraft.