Taxonomy Survey of Mosquitoes
TAXONOMIC SURVEY OF MOSQUITOES
IN NATURAL BREEDING SITES
FOUND IN SELECTED AREAS
OF SAMBAG I, CEBU CITY
A research presented to the Department of Languages
and Letters, College of Arts and Sciences
Southwestern University
Cebu City
In partial fulfillment of the requirements in
English IV: Research Methodology
by
BLANCIA, SAMANTHA THEA DEJARESCO, FLORABELLE
YU, PIERCE NEPTALI DENIEGA, LILY MAE
DELAROSA, RJUMER ROVILLA. VENICE
YAP, RHETT TAWI, VANESSA
October 2012
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Mosquitoes are insects that transmit a blood parasite that causes diseases. In the past, mosquito-borne disease presented sever problem to different parts of the world. Researchers began to study mosquitoes by its taxonomy, morphology and internal characteristics of the insects for obtaining the reason why they cause such disease.
One of the disease caused by mosquitoes is malaria, malaria is not the lone mosquito-borne disease that caused troubles during the early times. But the leading cause of malaria infection is the humans that are affected with the parasite. And with the appearance of efficient medicine, it has helped in improving our understanding of mosquitoes and the infection it causes.
One way of preventing malaria is by killing the local mosquito population, and health workers responded the malarial outbreak by spraying DDT. When it was first sprayed on a local mosquito population, the population goes into abrupt decline. Due to over use, DDT became ineffective quickly. DDT resistant mosquito were first detected on India in 1959, mosquito
IN NATURAL BREEDING SITES
FOUND IN SELECTED AREAS
OF SAMBAG I, CEBU CITY
A research presented to the Department of Languages
and Letters, College of Arts and Sciences
Southwestern University
Cebu City
In partial fulfillment of the requirements in
English IV: Research Methodology
by
BLANCIA, SAMANTHA THEA DEJARESCO, FLORABELLE
YU, PIERCE NEPTALI DENIEGA, LILY MAE
DELAROSA, RJUMER ROVILLA. VENICE
YAP, RHETT TAWI, VANESSA
October 2012
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Mosquitoes are insects that transmit a blood parasite that causes diseases. In the past, mosquito-borne disease presented sever problem to different parts of the world. Researchers began to study mosquitoes by its taxonomy, morphology and internal characteristics of the insects for obtaining the reason why they cause such disease.
One of the disease caused by mosquitoes is malaria, malaria is not the lone mosquito-borne disease that caused troubles during the early times. But the leading cause of malaria infection is the humans that are affected with the parasite. And with the appearance of efficient medicine, it has helped in improving our understanding of mosquitoes and the infection it causes.
One way of preventing malaria is by killing the local mosquito population, and health workers responded the malarial outbreak by spraying DDT. When it was first sprayed on a local mosquito population, the population goes into abrupt decline. Due to over use, DDT became ineffective quickly. DDT resistant mosquito were first detected on India in 1959, mosquito