As Mosquito Season Heats Up, ADAPCO Officials Credit VDCI Merger for Industry-Leading Role.

SANFORD, Fla. -- If this season is anything like last summer, the ADAPCO Vector Control Services (VCS) team will have ample opportunity to showcase its standard-setting technology and unparalleled service as it provides professional mosquito surveillance and control to municipalities throughout the country.

ADAPCO VCS, a division of the world's largest distributor of mosquito control products and application equipment, ADAPCO, Inc., is poised to respond to nationwide emergency needs within hours, fully customizing its services from consulting, to adulticide application, to integrated mosquito control programming. Paramount to this capability is the largest ground and air fleet dedicated to mosquito control anywhere, which comes as a result of a 2002 merger with Vector Disease Control Inc. (VDCI), of Greenville, MS. VDCI was firmly established in the Mississippi Delta and Gulf Coast regions.

In 2005, the ADAPCO VCS team was instrumental in reducing adult mosquito populations that contributed to a sudden West Nile Outbreak in North Central California. Additionally, the company secured FEMA contracts throughout coastal Mississippi and southern Louisiana in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

"With VDCI's capabilities and equipment now fully integrated within ADAPCO, we fully expect to provide the newest technologies and control products this season and beyond," said Allen Wooldridge, President of ADAPCO, Inc. "Our industry leadership position allows us to offer the most efficient, economical and environmentally sound mosquito control programs possible."

ADAPCO planes are outfitted with the company's proprietary Wingman(TM) GX spray guidance system; select planes also offer AIMMS-20 onboard meteorology and Micronair nozzles. This combination of ADAPCO airborne technologies provide the most advanced, accurate real-time spray modeling for aerial application.

In addition to ADAPCO VCS' emergency response capabilities, VCS teams are gearing up their surveillance and ground control operations throughout the country. Larvicide operations have been ongoing in over 6 states for several weeks and aerial larvicide applications are slated to begin in 4 more states next month. "Although VCS' surveillance has not yet detected West Nile virus (WNV) in any of their contract regions, we know the virus is going to be out there and we're preparing to respond when the virus is detected," said ADAPCO VCS President Allen Loe. "This early season larviciding is just the first step in our yearly battle with WNV and mosquitoes."

Headquartered in Sanford, Florida, ADAPCO, Inc. is the world's largest distributor of mosquito control insecticides, application equipment and odor control products to the mosquito control, forestry, agriculture and wastewater markets. In addition to its comprehensive range of products from 24 diverse manufacturers, ADAPCO also develops and produces advanced aerial and ground-based technologies and equipment that continue to establish new standards and trends for the industries in which they are used. Those technologies include Wingman(TM) GX, GeoFlow(TM) and Accuflow(TM). ADAPCO's Vector Control Services division provides comprehensive aerial and ground-based mosquito control and pesticide application service that is highly regarded for its IPM programs, national crisis response team and quality assurance programs.