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Mr. F. David Crc.vley frcra Canton to the I'orfolk County 

 Mosquito Control Commission 



The primary function of a mosquito control project is to 

 reduce the population of bitir.p; mosquitoes in populated areas 

 to the extent that illness, nuisance, and annoyance from mosquito 

 bites will be at a minimum. Much has been and is bein^;^ v;ritten 

 presently on methods, procedures, techniques and prorrams in- 

 volving mosquito control, but still the basic control procedures 

 are source reduction, larval and acult control. Surveys to find 

 the sources of mosquito breeding areas are continuing. More and 

 more emphasis is being placed on larval control and elimination 

 thereby making it feasible that less pesticides vail be necessary 

 in the form, of fogging, misting; and spraying to be dispersed into 

 the atmxsphere to contamiinate the environm.ent in the control of 

 adult mosquitoes. 



Source reduction procedures are preventative in nature 

 and include filling, drainage ditching, stream, clearance, etc., 

 but when these are properly carried out, T;revent the development 

 of mosquito larvae into the adult stage. 



Project m.anagement is still further complicated by indi- 

 viduals wno insist that more extensive pesticide applications 

 should be mad;:. On the opposite side there are those who insist 

 that no pesticides of any kind be used either in the vicinity of 

 their homes or in the biosphere itself. 



