Module 7 Setting Action Thresholds

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Welcome to Module 7 Setting Action Thresholds of the AMCA Best Practices for Integrated Mosquito Management Virtual Training Program. This training program will provide you with the knowledge needed to understand and conduct Integrated Mosquito Management (IMM); including topics such as mosquito biology and the five main components of IMM: community engagement, collecting and using data, reducing potential larval habitat, using all control methods available and reasonable, and regularly evaluating the efficacy of the program.

Specifically, this module will cover:

• Action thresholds for IMM and IPM
• Data-driven decisions and action thresholds determine intervention
• Mosquito-based action indicators
• Arbovirus response indicators
• Best practices for using action thresholds

If you are interested in completing the AMCA Best Practices for Integrated Mosquito Management Virtual Training Program Certificate, you MUST do this module within the overall program. If you have not come to this page from the program please subscribe to the program prior to beginning this module, please click here to begin. 

Recommended reading for this module:

• Pages 54-59 in "Best Practices for Integrated Mosquito Management" found at  https://www.mosquito.org/assets/pdf/hr_november_2021_amca_bmp_ma/

Additional Resources

1. Reisen, W. and Brault, A.C. 2007. West Nile virus in North America: perspectives on epidemiology and intervention. Pest Management Science: formerly Pesticide Science, 63(7), pp.641-646.
2. CDC. 2023. Mosquito surveillance software. https://www.cdc.gov/westnile/resourcepages/mosqSurvSoft.html
3. VectorSurv Development Team. 2021. VectorSurv Maps. https://maps.vectorsurv.org/
4. Chung, W.M., Buseman, C.M., Joyner, S.N., Hughes, S.M., Fomby, T.B., Luby, J.P. and Haley, R.W. 2013. The 2012 West Nile encephalitis epidemic in Dallas, Texas. Jama, 310(3), pp.297-307.
5. Bolling, B.G., Barker, C.M., Moore, C.G., Pape, W.J. and Eisen, L. 2009. Seasonal patterns for entomological measures of risk for exposure to Culex vectors and West Nile virus in relation to human disease cases in northeastern Colorado. Journal of Medical Entomology, 46(6), pp.1519-1531.
6. Nasci, R.S. and Mutebi, J.P. 2019. Reducing West Nile virus risk through vector management. Journal of medical entomology, 56(6), pp.1516-1521.