Prevention of Mosquito Breeding in Urban Built Environment in Colombo District, Sri Lanka

Recent outbreaks of Aedes aegypti borne disease have shown an increase in built environments in and around Colombo, and also other metropolises. It is presumed that such spaces provide ideal conditions for the proliferation of mosquitoes and the vector’s contact with humans. Improvement of the built environment would thus contribute to a long-term solution to reducing the threats imposed by the vector. Field experiments were conducted in the urban area of Colombo to assess how mosquitoes grow within well standardize built environment in Colombo areas. And the initial study found that Aedes types mosquitoes are growing within plumbing systems in a house. This study was conducted to innovate a series of new products to stop mosquito breeding in urban areas. Finally, these products are ready to produce at a mass scale to stop mosquito breeding in urban areas of Colombo.There were significantly more Aedes types mosquitoes that were trapped, killed or stopped breeding by the novel equipment made by this invention. Increasing sampling frequency from every house that this device was fixed indicates that many mosquitoes have travelled through the septic tank vent and are trapped within the vent trap developed by this study. Further studies should be conducted to develop these inventions to suit plumbing and to make them more user friendly to the Sri Lankan