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Guillén "This allows us to improve our quality of life through the improvement of our public parks".

The biological control of pests is increasingly widespread in public gardens and can eliminate the treatment with insecticides.

The professionals place larvae, both ready to hatch and hatched, in traps in different specimens (robinias, jacarandas and tipuanas) that will be responsible for eliminating insects harmful to trees

The Park and Gardens Service, under the Department of Modernization of the Administration and Urban Development, and the concessionaire company STV Gestión works in the controlled release of insects as an effective method of fight against pests.

"These are small cardboard boxes in which larvae are saved, ready to hatch or hatched, which are responsible for killing other insects that are harmful to the specimens. It is carried out at this time due to the suitability of the temperatures ", explains the mayor of Modernization of the Administration and Urban Development, José Guillén, who highlights among his advantages the following:

- No harmful collateral effect of natural enemies towards other organisms and especially towards people.

- The treatment with insecticides is eliminated completely or substantially.

- It offers great effectiveness because the resistance of pests to biological control is very rare.

- The control is long-term or permanent.

- The cost / benefit ratio is very favorable.

- Avoid secondary pests.

This strategy seeks to fulfill the so-called 'control of biological populations' and preserve the specimens (more than a thousand), which meet the ideal conditions for their treatment. "

What is sought is to persevere in the fundamental idea that this control wants to balance tolerable levels of population with each other, but in less pernicious amounts for the citizen.

For this reason, a pedagogical posters of the release will be placed, as an informative way.

Also, with this action, which will be carried out with Crisopa (Chrisoperla carnea) and Aphidios (Aphidius colemani), it is also intended to "improve the quality of life of the neighbors and avoid possible resistance to some products that offer pests", emphasizes Guillen.

This system affects the importance of acting in advance to control possible pests (often seen in jacarandas, robinias and tipuanas), actions that are intensively and exhaustively controlled from the park's services and gardens of the Consistory.

Among the areas in which it will act are several of the city and districts such as the Garden of the Dry in Torreagüera, Floridablanca Avenue or the Garden of Saltpeter.

With these works is still betting on the care of the different green areas of Murcia and districts among which include the thousands of copies that make them.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia