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The Government Board has approved this morning the award of the tiger mosquito control campaign in the City of Murcia, which includes the control of the population of mosquitoes, as well as chironomids and other insects.

This new contract, awarded to the company Lokimica, SA for an amount of 434,111 euros, aims to predict and prevent vector risk within the framework of integrated pest management without forgetting the importance of improving and improving the urban environment as a control strategy.

This contract will be for 4 years, extendable to 2 more years.

In the municipality of Murcia there is the confluence of a climate of subtropical temperatures with a diversity of biotopes in which the presence of water is not rare, despite the scarcity of rainfall.

For this reason, it is necessary to carry out a campaign to control these insects, in which they must adjust to the seasonal period in which they proliferate and must include citizen information and education measures.

In the case of the tiger mosquito, it has certain peculiarities in its habit of food and reproduction that make it annoying and difficult to control.

To this is added the progressive upward trend of average temperatures that allows its reproduction most of the year.

It will act in those areas of the municipality where the presence of these insects is detected or foreseeable the appearance of outbreaks of mosquitoes that will control at least the following spaces: municipal schools and children's schools, municipal swimming pools, gardens, ponds, fountains, and green spaces publicly owned rainwater scuppers and sanitation network, ravines, wetlands, ditches and irrigation canals, lots and open spaces of municipal ownership, the municipal cemetery and the rivers of the river Segura and Guadalentín in coordination with the Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia