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Professor Norman Yan's study has a better way to battle mosquitoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protecting ourselves from backyard mosquito bites may come down to leaving the vacuuming for later, a study from York University shows.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than vacuuming the grass clippings out of catch basins before adding treatments to control mosquitoes, municipalities should leave the organic waste in place, the research found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCatch basins are a permanent source of mosquitoes on every street. By putting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pesticideinfo.org\/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S-methoprene<\/a> in cleaned catch basins we saw an average of 20 per cent of the mosquito larvae make it to the adult stage over the duration of the study. But that number was reduced to less than 3 per cent just by leaving the organic debris in the catch basins until the fall, when mosquito season is over,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/gradbiol\/faculty\/profiles\/normand.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Norman Yan<\/a>, a professor in York University\u2019s Department of Biology.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"8\" width=\"200\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20100629\/WNVmicrograph(1).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"346\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Above: An electron micrograph of the West Nile virus. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yan and former York master\u2019s student Stacey Baker (MSc \u201908) co-authored a study published in the current issue of the <em>Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association<\/em>. They were surprised by the results of the research, conducted by Baker in 2005 on residential streets in the Greater Toronto Area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe predicted that S-methoprene would work better in the catch basins that had been cleaned. We found the opposite \u2013 that S-methoprene binds to organic material, which holds it in the catch basins longer so that mosquito larvae are exposed to it for longer,\u201d says Baker.<\/p>\n<p>The research may have implications not only for our comfort levels, but for disease control, says Yan. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phac-aspc.gc.ca\/wn-no\/index-eng.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">human West Nile virus<\/a> rate and the number of positive mosquito pools have been lower in the past two years in Ontario, but it remains a problem in some areas of the United States, and warmer temperatures and a wet season could increase the risk in Ontario. The West Nile virus is not carried by all mosquitoes but it can lead to severe symptoms and even death.<\/p>\n<p>Public health units in Ontario determine if and when they will larvicide based on their surveillance of the level of risk. S-methoprene, which is used in Canada only for control of West Nile virus, is still being used in hundreds of thousands of catch basins in the GTA, but there has been no thought given to the cleaning schedule, according to the study authors. The study demonstrates that scheduling both the application of S-methoprene and the removal of debris makes sense, they said, and it may be worthwhile to clean the catch basins every two years instead of annually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccumulated Organic Debris in Catch Basins Improves the Efficacy of S-methoprene Against Mosquitoes in Toronto, Ontario, Canada\u201d appears in the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioone.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.2987\/09-5928.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>York University\u2019s <a title=\"KMb at York Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.researchimpact.ca\/localRI\/YorkU\/\">Knowledge Mobilization Unit<\/a>, which seeks to maximize the impact of academic research on public policy and professional practice, has sent a summary of the research findings to Ontario\u2019s public health units.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Janice Walls, media relations officer. <\/em><em>Republished courtesy of <\/em><a title=\"YFile, York's  online daily newsletter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\">YFile<\/a><em>\u2013 York University\u2019s daily e-bulletin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protecting ourselves from backyard mosquito bites may come down to leaving the vacuuming for later, a study from York University shows. 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