Mosquito control in Haifa: preventive activity to control mosquitoes and treatment of stagnant bodies of water that are breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
In order to optimize the extermination operation, the Haifa municipality operates dedicated tools that include powerful and extremely high-output motorized sprayers that help in exterminating the plague of mosquitoes with the arrival of summer.
Mosquito control in Haifa The control activity will be done using environmentally friendly preparations recommended by the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The municipality's actions on the matter are coordinated with the director of the pest control unit at the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Dr. Abd Sirati, with the aim of creating cooperation that will prevent the outbreak of West Nile fever in the city as much as possible. At the same time, proactive regional actions are being carried out in cooperation with the pest control departments of the authorities adjacent to Haifa.
The director of the preventive services department in the Haifa municipality, Baruch Dotan, addressed the residents with a request dry sources
Standing water near their residences, including the bottoms of planters and pots, leaking faucets, old tires
and any receptacle Even the smallest one found in yards and gardens and this in order to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes in general and Asian tiger mosquitoes in particular.
In order to streamline the operation, residents are asked to report to the municipal hotline 106 any stagnant water in the public areas, to allow the pest control personnel to deal immediately with the prevention of possible breeding of mosquitoes.
In addition, Dotan recommends walking at night in places where there are mosquitoes in long, light-colored clothes, since dark colors attract mosquitoes and to take additional protective measures such as installing nets on windows and using protective sprays recognized by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Health.