Background of the Study

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Mosquitoes are among the most important insect pests affecting the health of people and animals. Biting female mosquitoes not only irritate people and animals, but they can also transmit many disease-causing organisms. Annoying populations of mosquitoes can occur anywhere in our city because there are habitats favourable for mosquito species almost everywhere. Mosquitoes sucks blood which irritates its host. Researchers are trying find out which attracts mosquitoes. “People with high concentrations of steroids or cholesterol on their skin surface attract mosquitos (Butler). Mosquitoes can smell their dinner from an impressive distance of 50 meters, explained by Edman from the website, http://www.webmd.com/allergies/features/are-you-mosquito-magnet. Diseases caused by Mosquitos such as dengue, malaria, encephalitis, etc., can affect us in different ways especially to our health. According to the experts of www.scribd.com/-Mosquito-Facts-and-Trivia, female mosquitos may lay 100- 300 eggs at a time and may average 1,000 to 3,000 offspring during her life span. As we can see, population of mosquitoes are rapidly increasing. How will we ever stop the highly growing population of Mosquitos? People have used various instruments to control the Mosquito Problems in homes. One of the most popular are the baygon coils which are mostly used. These coils can kill mosquitos yet the active ingredients in these coils like allethrin, pynamin forte, prothrin and pyrethrin, can cause harm to humans when inhaled. It also has an ozone- depleting ingredient. Some even uses insecticide sprays which kills mosquitos but can also have a serious damage to humans as well. According to experts of the website www.bayer.co.th, the active ingredients in these sprays, like tethramethrin , and petroleum distillates can cause severe chest pains and cough attacks when inhaled. As we can see, some of the mosquito killing devices can kill this insects but can also