• Musca nebulo and Musca domestica are the most common house flies living as guests in our shelters.
• House flies are cosmopolitan in distribution and are most dangerous vectors of contagious diseases like typhoid, tuberculosis, cholera and dysentery.
• The life cycle of house flies last up to ten days in different stages viz., egg, larvae, pupa and finally adult.
• Effective fly control programme should include identification of breeding site, sanitation and proper waste disposal apart from population reduction.
• Flies can effectively be controlled by IPM (Integrated pest management) services offered by SIPC on daily basis.

IPM for Mosquitoes

• This is a comprehensive treatment comprising of sanitation, habitat disruption, chemical control and mechanical control.
• IPM treatment consists disinfestations spray on premises and breeding stations, fogging treatment, mechanical repellent treatments and entry restriction measurers.
• Treatment applied in all rooms and also in the breeding sources like drainage openings, channels, water stagnations, etc which are very nearby to the premises.
• Disinfestations spray and chemicals used are odorless and harmless to human being, safer and most efficient.
• Gum traps will also be placed based on requirement.
• The fogging treatments will be applied based on requirement as and when needed and it can be applied during working days without disturbance.