254 - Revitalizing the Quality Assurance Program at Metropolitan Mosquito Control District: Year One

Abstract: Metropolitan Mosquito Control District (MMCD) in St. Paul, Minnesota has been protecting the public form disease and annoyance caused by mosquitoes, black flies, and ticks since 1958. MMCD is responsible for treating and surveying around 3,000 square miles of land that houses around 3 million residents in the metropolitan area around the Twin Cities. This program is carried out by employing a heavily larvicidal-based program with very little adulticiding needed to control especially problematic populations. Over the history of MMCD, the presence of am established quality assurance program has been present at varying intensities at different times. In 2025, MMCD chsoe to invest in the development and re-vitalization of a wide-sweeping quality assurance program that is designed to assess several aspects of the MMCD program. Some of the main components of the program are: assessing product efficacy, developing an insecticide resistance program, carrying out new product evaluations, and much more. The presentation will focus on the developments, trials, lessons learned, and future plans for the QA program at MMCD.