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2023/09/12

Article dans actuToulouse

Par Guillaume Laurens / Publié le 12 Sep 23 à 6:42

Toulouse : une cinquantaine de pièges à moustiques installés sur la fan zone

Afin d’éviter que les moustiques tigres ne viennent gâcher la fête, une cinquantaine de pièges ont été installés au village rugby de Toulouse pour la Coupe du monde 2023.

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2020/1/26

Article in the Kaleej Times, UAE

This article is about Biogents traps and BG-Counters to be deployed across UAE

Ashwani Kumar /Abu Dhabi
Filed on January 26, 2020 | Last updated on January 26, 2020

440 smart mosquito traps to be deployed across UAE

Tadweer has developed an effective, efficient and sustainable way to trap mosquitoes.

More than 400 solar-powered smart traps will be installed across the country from February 1 to catch mosquitoes and thus keep a check on the outbreak of diseases like malaria, dengue, Yellow Fever and West Nile Virus, an official from Abu Dhabi Waste Management Centre (Tadweer) said.

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Kaleej Times

RBG

Le 10 juillet 2019 à 18h10 • par Journaliste

Journal d’informations locales (18h45-19h00) sur RGB 99.2 Fm & www.radiorgb.net

A la une de votre journal, du 10 au 13 juillet, l’Ile de Loisirs de Cergy accueille petits et grands, dans un chapiteau éphémère pour l’événement Partir en Livre. Nous étions sur place, dans le cadre d’un reportage.

Également à la une, les moustiques sont nos bêtes noires pendant les vacances d’été. Avec en prime l’arrivée du moustique tigre, un peu plus mauvais que les autres. Une experte scientifique interviendra tout à l’heure pour vous donner des conseils et les précautions à prendre pour éviter les piqûres et les invasions.

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Bernieshoot / LifeStyle

Comment éliminer le moustique tigre à l’extérieur et à l’intérieur

10 Juillet 2019

Rédigé par Bernie et publié depuis Overblog

Cela ne vous aura pas échappé, le moustique tigre prolifère de façon massive et agressive en France, se protéger contre ces insectes opportuns devient urgent. La Société de production grainière (SPG) propose des pièges à moustiques révolutionnaires dans le domaine de la prévention et de la protection contre les moustiques dans le respect de l’environnement.
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RTS – Music-Info-Trafic

A vous de piéger les moustiques

10 juillet 2019 à 11h30 Par Loïc Tournier

Comme chaque année, les moustiques sont présents en masse dès que l’été arrive. Si vous avez tout tenté et que rien ne fonctionne, pourquoi ne pas essayer un piège à moustique ? Explication.
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2019/06/24

Les moustiques se font dérouler le tapis rouge

By Audrey Ruel-Manseau
La Presse

Le chasse-moustiques et les baumes pour soulager les piqûres sont assurément plus populaires que la crème solaire cette année. Non, ce n’est pas une impression : les moustiques piqueurs sont particulièrement nombreux et voraces depuis quelques jours, conséquence d’un hiver enneigé et d’un printemps frais et pluvieux.
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2016/09/23

Article in the Miami Herald, Environment, September 23, 2016 11:52 AM

Amongst others this article is about the use of BG-Sentinel traps in Miami in the fight against Zika.

How Miami-Dade got outgunned and overwhelmed in the war on Zika

By Jenny Staletovich

As the Zika virus spread across Miami-Dade County this summer, a staff of 17 that handles mosquito control for nearly 2.7 million people was outgunned, overwhelmed and maybe even a victim of its own success: in 2009 and 2010, the county managed to dodge a dengue outbreak that infected more than 100 people in Key West and four years later evaded a rash of Chikungunya …
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2016/09/19

Article in the New Yorker, Pest Control, September 19, 2016 Issue

The article shows a team of entomologists deploying sophisticated traps to catch species that could carry Zika.

To Catch a Mosquito

By Laura Parker

Aedes albopictus is an early riser. Of the fifty-one mosquito species in New York, albopictus—a close cousin of Aedes aegypti, the species responsible for spreading Zika—prefers to restrict its activity to power breakfasts, in the mornings, and to teatime, in the late afternoons (The common house mosquito is active in the evenings.) …
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2016/09/09

Article in the New Jersey Herald, News, Sep. 9, 2016 12:01 am

This article is about county mosquito control workers and officials from the State Department of Environmental Protection. They use the new BG-Sentinel mosquito trap, specifically catching the Asian tiger mosquito that is of most concern for Sussex County since its eggs can withstand northern New Jersey winters.

Tiger mosquitoes found in county, but no Zika

By Bruce A. Scruton

Again this summer, the species of mosquito that is known to carry the Zika virus has been found in Sussex County, but local officials said none of the captured insects has tested positive for the virus…
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2016/09/02

Article in Breitbart, News, Sep. 2, 2016

The report says Florida officials confirmed they had trapped three Aedes aegypti mosquitos in Miami Beach that tested positive for Zika.

Zika: Experts Fear ‘Mosquitos out the Yin Yang’ After Florida Hurricane

By Frances Martel

As northern Florida confronts the heavy winds and rains of Hurricane Hermine, biology experts warn that the storm may aid the spread of the Zika virus, now confirmed to be present in mosquitos in the state…
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2016/08/22

Article in the Sarasota magazine, September 2016 issue, Aug. 22, 2016 at 4:55

The article states that Zika is just the latest threat. Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on earth. Mosquitoes have killed more humans than all wars in history.

Out for blood – Zika has landed.

By Cooper Levey-Baker

The BG-Sentinel 2 doesn’t look like a human, but to certain mosquitoes, it smells like one…
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2016/08/16

Article in the Salt Lake Tribune, first published Aug 16, 2016 11:24AM

Districts’ mosquito control manager say efforts to find carriers of the virus require devices & techniques, that differ from methods used on native species.

Salt Lake City short on Zika mosquito traps

By ALEX STUCKEY

About 30 mosquito traps are dispersed throughout the Salt Lake City area, luring native Utah mosquitoes so they can be tested for diseases. But those traps don’t work against the two mosquito species known to spread the Zika virus. The city’s Mosquito Abatement District couldn’t afford to buy the appropriate traps…
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2016/08/05

Article in The Advocate, Aug 5, 2016 – 5:17 pm

At the end of the article you find a video which shows the BG-Sentinel mosquito trap.

Louisiana bracing for Zika threat with 19 confirmed cases, ‘we have all the ingredients’ for local transmission

BY ANDREA GALLO

As Louisiana residents look east to the Zika outbreak in Florida, local health and mosquito abatement officials say they are preparing for the worst by throwing everything they can at preventing a similar situation here…
Read the full original article in The Advocate here >

2016/08/05

Article in ABC 7, posted: Aug 05, 2016 1:50 AM

It is described that mosquitoes are often killed by insecticides harming biodiversity; there are better alternatives, though.

Zika: Trapping the Aedes aegypti mosquito

By Web Staff

The helicopter’s loud rumbling is music to the ears of business owners in the industrial park off Airport-Pulling Road and Trade Center Way in Naples. It’s the sound of mosquito control spraying…
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2016/06/30

Article in SOMD News, Jun. 30, 2016

SOMD reports that the new traps, called the BG-Sentinel traps from Biogents, are specially designed to catch two varieties of mosquitoes in Calverty County that are capable of carrying the Zika: Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus.

County has a new tool for combating mosquitoes

By TAMARA WARD

See Something. Say Something. Many people are familiar with the national campaign to raise public awareness of indicators of terrorism and to report suspicious activities and packages to state and local enforcement. However, the Calvert County Mosquito Control Division does not want residents to be alarmed by the new specialized mosquito traps sprinkled throughout county neighborhoods…
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2016/06/09

Article in Khon 2 News, published: June 9, 2016, 9:13 am

The article is linked to a video with the BG-Sentinel trap used by the US Navy.

 Navy entomologists help in the fight against Zika

By Web Staff

Navy medical entomologists have been on our program several times in recent years to explain how they fight the spread of disease by mosquitoes. Today, LT James Harwood joins us from Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit Six at Pearl Harbor to talk about the front lines of preventing Zika, Dengue and other diseases spread by mosquitoes…
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