**10. Public awareness**

Public awareness counts in integrated pest management at a significant level, various examples can be sited from the literature when community efforts played a role for the eradication of disease agents. As *Aedes aegypti* was eliminated from countries various regions of the USA during the 1960s when relatively well funded eradication campaign supported by a high degree of political and community were involved. The effective collaboration of a welleducated society with the assistance of mosquito control well-trained staff will be the most compelling and economically reliable method for the removal of *Aedes albopictus* populations in rural and suburban regions [18].
