2023-06-24 08:44:55
Aurélie Dupeyron, mosquito control technician answered the questions of the Périgourdins present. Photo Mathis Planes
Thursday, June 22, was held at the Pierre Fanlac media library a public meeting to prevent the proliferation of the tiger mosquito.
No, the mosquito does not only prevent us from sleeping. When he is a tiger, he can also carry epidemic and contagious diseases (chikungunya, dengue fever, zika), as proved by the case of arbovirosis detected last Friday in Bergerac. To counter this scourge, the municipality has chosen to organize a public meeting this Thursday, at the Jean-Moulin amphitheater of the Pierre-Fanlac media library, in order to answer questions from the twenty Périgourdins present.
To control an insect, you must know how it works.
With a nuisance peak expected between August and September, the challenge is to intervene before the birth of mosquitoes. Hence this meeting at the beginning of the summer. “Like small fish, nymphs and larvae need water to live and grow. If we turn over the dome in which they grow and empty it into the ground, it’s over” (see box on good practices).
On the program for the evening, therefore, a detailed presentation of the insect, another devoted to its risks and nuisances, then a final one on the municipality’s control strategy. Because, “to fight once morest an insect, you have to know how it works”, underlines Aurélie Duperyon, mosquito control technician for the Altopictus group (operator mandated by the ARS).
Interrogative Périgourdins
A month following the appearance of the Tiger Brigade, and a year following the last public meeting on the subject, the insect with black and white stripes was on everyone’s lips during the question and answer session. “Where to set up my traps?” asked a Périgourdine woman living on the second floor in Vésone, but having a balcony that was too exposed to the sun. Technician’s answer: try to create artificial shade using a plant, traps being less effective in the heat. To another resident complaining of being still bothered by mosquitoes despite the presence of traps, Aurélie Dupeyron advises asking her neighbors to look for the presence of larvae in their homes. “You need a collective network to eliminate them. »
It takes a collective network to eliminate them.
A meeting which was also an opportunity to recall the practices to avoid such as the use of bleach which “pollutes whereas it is enough to empty the pots filled with larvae”. Finally, among the more whimsical questions, a Périgourdine woman wondered regarding a possible diet that might discourage insects. “Mosquitoes are not attracted by our food, but by the bacteria present on our body. On the other hand, some perfumes attract more. »
Despite this awareness intervention, and those daily of the Tiger Brigade, the technician explains that the mosquito is inexpellable. “Now that he is present in Périgueux, we can only work together to learn to live together. In the Dordogne, 51% of towns are colonized by the tiger mosquito.
Mathis Planès
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