Experts warn mosquito Alarm in upper Bavaria - frightening Pay

After high water and heavy rain is your time: With the summer temperatures, mosquitoes in upper Bavaria wide. Dießen/Seebruck – It's only been a week that th

Experts warn mosquito Alarm in upper Bavaria - frightening Pay

After high water and heavy rain is your time: With the summer temperatures, mosquitoes in upper Bavaria wide.

Dießen/Seebruck – It's only been a week that three members of the Association "the mosquito plague? No, thank you!“ to the Draw went. Together with experts from the local community of action for the control of mosquitoes plague (KABS) took water samples in several locations on the Ammersee. Then they counted the larvae contained in the mosquitoes to get a clue, what will happen to the five lakes country. In Dießen (Kreis Landsberg) they found 50 in the 225-Milliliter vessel.

starting at five larvae per litre of a high load to be expected. In Dießen it were calculated on the litres of more than 200. "In an area of one hectare that makes about 200 million mosquitoes, of which the female share stands potentially," said biologist Norbert Becker. And which will soon become apparent, says the mosquito expert: "by the end of this week, you will feel it."

"the lakes-Seebruck is item a Amazon-Delta"

Becker is a Professor of Ecology at the University of Heidelberg and scientific Director of the KABS. "After the heavy rain last week the larvae have hatched," he explains. You go through four stages, then they pupate and finally to an adult insect. "Before the mosquitoes are a plague, they have to be mated. As a result, the blood thirst of the female fanned the flames.“

Am Chiemsee is a town hall boss is afraid of the consequences of this blood thirst. The municipal Council of Seeon-Seebruck in a circle Traunstein had decided in April to participate in the future of the mosquitoes fighting at the lake. Shutter button, so the mayor, Bernd, Ruth, presumed to be the successful types of protection people desire. He was afraid, however, that could avenge the decision: "In the case of a mosquito plague of Seeon-Seebruck is transformed without a fight in the Amazon Delta," he said to the Online Portal chiemgau24. Visitors could steer clear of the place, the tourism will suffer.

"Perfect conditions"

Since 1997, is applied to the Chiemsee, the crystalline protein from the bacterium Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) for the control of mosquitoes. It kills mosquito larvae that eat it, and is considered to be harmless to other creatures. Environmental initiatives such as the Federal nature conservation criticise, however, that it also serve to mosquito to kill, for the people, no disorder, but other animal species as food. They are calling for new investigations.

also, the Association "wants to Investigate plague of mosquitoes? No thanks!“ on the Ammersee. Because of a Mosquito-control, such as the Chiemsee is located in the five lakes country. The Association wants first of all a mapping of the mosquito occurrence in the Region. For the club's supporters sought and collected donations of around EUR 30 000 to the cost of the project. The municipalities on the Ammersee had not been able to agree whether to grant the order. As long as there is no mapping, there is no Basis for action, argues the Association.

two years Ago, the insects were on the Ammersee to the real scourge, a landlady from Eching had to close because of the mosquito swarms at times your Local. In the extreme summer of 2018, from hot were stechwütigen masses. Whether the summer of 2019 is a mosquito in summer, depends on the weather. "There is heavy rain and high water, the insects, the perfect conditions to breed," says Norbert Becker. During the recent high water levels have fallen quickly. "Perhaps we have in the South of Bavaria, Yes, even happiness, and it remains in a mosquito wave."

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Date Of Update: 04 June 2019, 00:00
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