Mesocyclops

Mesocyclops is a genus in stagnant pools occurring tropical copepods, which feed among other mosquito larvae. This food source makes it a suitable agent for biological mosquito control. Since mosquitoes act as vectors of infectious diseases in many cases, such approaches in health care, especially in the tropics, relevant. Tentatively was Mesocyclops therefore, for example, in Vietnam using the population exposed to in ponds, whereupon the number of dengue cases went back to a published in The Lancet study in the areas concerned and the disease vector Aedes aegypti in villages in which carried out the fight with Mesocyclops was, could be eradicated. Mesocyclops termocyclopoides attacks mosquito larvae only in the early stages of development, therefore, is to combat colonization of the breeding grounds with the copepods prior to oviposition of mosquitoes most effective. There are numerous other works on this subject, see, for example.