What's Bugging You Right Now?
As we move through late summer and enter early fall, we see an increase in Anopheles mosquitoes that migrate into populated areas to seek a blood meal and safe places to hibernate when the temperatures start to drop in fall.
This mosquito is produced in the vast amount of flooded rice ground and wetlands that are within the district. Employees are implementing control measures in these areas throughout the spring and summer months, but when the rice water starts to drain before harvest, the Anopheles that get past the districts control efforts will find their way into towns and outlying houses.
Also, during this time, wetlands begin to flood for the waterfowl season. This will produce large numbers of Aedes and Culex mosquitoes. These mosquitoes also tend to seek more populated areas searching for a blood meal.
The district spends many hours a week implementing control measures on all these large populations of mosquitoes. Due to the large numbers of mosquitoes, the district will also use aerial control in and around the wetland areas of the district.
As control efforts continue through November and temperatures begin to drop, these mosquitoes will become less of a nuisance, and the threat of mosquito borne illnesses will be reduced significantly.
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