Spraying Quality Assessment of Sprayers Devoted to Mosquito Control
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Mosquito control operators in France are mainly public and have at their disposal a wide range of spraying techniques to control mosquitoes. Due to the lack of commercial solutions, and in order to meet technical objectives and comply with regulations, they look to continuously improve their spraying application techniques. In the framework of the European Life+ project LIFE08 ENV/F/000488, the aim of this paper is to describe a new approach in order to evaluate sprayer’s performance comparing Droplet distribution on the ground for larvicides and in the air for spatial adulticiding.
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