A.K.A.
The Yellow Fever Mosquito
What is Ades aegypti?
Mosquito species in this genus are most likely to be the vector of WNv in the US.
What is Culex
A common attractant for host seeking female mosquitoes.
What is CO2?
IGR
What is Insect Growth Regulator
This active ingredient works as a gut toxin with little to no residual activity and is an effective larvicide on a wide range of mosquito species.
What is Bti?
The Asian Tiger Mosquito
What is Aedes albopictus?
Aedes aegypti & Aedes albopictus would be the most likely vectors of these 3 vector borne diseases in the US.
What are Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya?
The number of square feet in one acre
What is 43,560 ?
ULV
What is Ultra Low Volume
Insecticides in in this pesticide class block open the sodium channel in the insect's nervous system.
What are Pyrethrins or Pyrethroids?
The Northern House Mosquito
What is Culex pipiens?
You would expect to find mosquitoes species in this genus in salt marshes and floodwaters.
What is Aedes?
Surveillance traps of this type are used to attract female mosquitoes that have mated and looking to lay eggs.
What is a gravid trap?
Bti
What is Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis
or
Bacillus thuringiensis, subspecies israelensis
Insecticides in this pesticide class neutralize the acetylcholinesterase enzyme in the insect's nervous system.
What is an Organophosphate?
Also acceptable: What is a carbamate?
The Inland Floodwater Mosquito
What is Aedes vexans?
Mosquitoes of this genus are the most likely to transmit St. Louis encephalitis in the US.
What is Culex
A very favorable condition for Ground ULV application in which air temperature increases with height.
What is a temperature inversion?
RUP
This is a synergist that inhibits an insect's cytochrome P450 enzymes that detoxify insecticides.
What is Piperonyl Butoxide (PBO) ?
The Cattail Mosquito
What is Coquillettidia perturbans
Anopheles freeborni & Anopheles quadrimaculatis would be the most likely vectors for this vector borne disease in the US.
What is Malaria
Mosquitoes in this genus are commonly referred to as "Elephant Mosquitoes".
What is Toxorhynchites ?
PBO
Piperonyl Butoxide
These two active ingredients for mosquito control are listed in the IRAC Mode of Action Classification Scheme Group 7: Juvenile hormone receptor modulators
What are Methoprene and Pyriproxyfen?