Control

SAND FLIES - CONTROL
  • Removal of dense vegetations to discourage breeding of the flies
  • Plastering the walls of the huts with a mixture of lime and mud
  • Mosquito eradication measures also enable control of Phlebotomus species
  • Use of Impregnated nets
  • Aphid alarm pheromone induces feeding of poison baits which kill the flies
  • Cyfluthrin corn oil mixture sprayed in breeding areas of sandflies also helps in control
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