about the Aedes mosquito

http://www.dengue.gov.sg/subject.asp?id=12

Under optimal conditions, the egg of an Aedes mosquito can hatch into a larva in less than a day. The larva then takes about four days to develop in a pupa, from which an adult mosquito will emerge after two days. Three days after the mosquito has bitten a person and taken in blood, it will lay eggs, and the cycle begins again.
Fast facts about the mosquito

Only the female aedes mosquito bites as it needs the protein in blood to develop its eggs.
The mosquito becomes infective approximately 7 days after it has bitten a person carrying the virus. This is the extrinsic incubation period, during which time the virus replicates in the mosquito and reaches the salivary glands.
Peak biting is at dawn and dusk.
The average lifespan of an Aedes mosquito in Nature is 2 weeks
The mosquito can lay eggs about 3 times in its lifetime, and about 100 eggs are produced each time.
The eggs can lie dormant in dry conditions for up to about 9 months, after which they can hatch if exposed to favourable conditions, i.e. water and food

I have read tha range is as far as 400 meters The normal is 50-100 meters of the site of emergence. I assume they lay their eggs in the same place where they hatched when there are not many sites to lay eggs.

This mosquit has a adult life of 8 days to 2 weeks and up to one month some have reported..

Philipenes with new trap
http://oltrap.dost.gov.ph/?p=9

using sterile males.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv6JsC2MQYI&feature=youtu.be

http://woodshedenvironment.wordpress.com/

Mosquito netting. Recently a person asked about netting for their bed. I do not know where to get them, but… We have basically not had one drop of rain in 9 months. The mosquito we have here is aedes aegypti it is the one that can carry dengue if there is an outbreak . It has some traits that should not allow it to be here, it needs moisture, its range is very short, 400 meters is a long range and the typical is 50-100 meters of the site of emergence. We can speculate generally they go back to this location in a desert with rain to lay the eggs. Lifespan as short as one week but average of 2 week. So you know the breeding location is nearby. In a desert where we have no rain for 9 months this rules out many locations that tropical areas have problems with. In general, refrigerator or air conditioner pans should be inspected. I am sure no one has run their ac for many moons. If someone has a water storage tank that is open this is a prime location, a neighbor who has a pool that is not maintained, any kind of birdbath, animal bowls, plant pots that are overflowed with water, construction sites where they fill barrels of water (these should be emptied about every 5 days) and the one that is the main culprit down here is septic and house vents. Take a walk around your neighborhood and find the construction barrels, septic vents, water tanks, house vents that are not screened off. Take a ladder and some metal screen and electrical wire with and close them off. If construction you will need to do this every 5 days till they are done. While doing this pay attention to where there are buckets, boats, kayaks, garbage cans, wheelbarrows, pots that do not drain, old tires and such so if we do get rain you can go empty those out. None of my neighbors locals or from the north have said no when I do this. If you do not have the ability or ladder to do this I can lend you my ladder or ask a local (Jose Luis) to do the inspection/work for you for a reasonable price. My guestimate is I can get him to do it for about 300 pesos if a small area. You will notice the difference in 1 week.

When people leave for the season, they should put plugs and covers on all sinks, drains including shower drains, anything that has a “trap”, and even put saran wrap over the toilet bowl and tank to seal it from evaporation. Turn all flower pots upside down or fill with sand, and have someone inspect after a rain. dean@la-ventana.com