Integrated Pest Management Plan

The annual mosquito surveillance and control program has been provided for the benefit of City of Salmon Arm residents, businesses and visitors for over twenty years and employs a comprehensive, and sustainable, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach to control. This approach focuses on the timely detection and suppression of larval mosquito populations using biological products and methodologies. Where possible, and appropriate, physical or cultural controls are recommended, and implemented, that reduce larval habitat and enhance, or conserve natural mosquito predators and their environments. Where required, larval mosquito populations would be controlled using the bio-rational larvicide product VectoBac® 200G (Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis, Strain AM65-52, PCP #18158), or equivalent, and VectoLex (Bacillus sphaericus, Strain 2362, PCP #28008, 28009).

This Pest Management Plan (PMP) reviews mosquito biology, the types of larval mosquito habitats affecting the program area and the local mosquito species complex. An integrated PMP approach to mosquito population management and control can reduce overall adult mosquito annoyance. This PMP outlines the procedures and methodologies which will reduce local mosquito populations and habitat for the purpose of preventing mosquito annoyance for area residents and visitors. It is not designed to control mosquito vectored disease. This is a responsibility coordinated through regional and local health authorities.