Friday, June 28, 2013

MOSQUITO POPULATION DUE TO THE LONG COLD WET SPRING.

Do you assume mosquitoes are significantly teasing to date this year? Well, you are not wrong.

Mosquito lure counts have enhanced over fifty per cent compared to identical time last year, in step with the house narrowed by the town to watch and management dipterous insect populations.

A long, cool, wet spring allowed early dipterous insect varieties to thrive and they've stuck around, in step with GDG setting project manager Mark Ardis.

"Compared to years past, particularly the past 3 years, dipterous insect populations area unit abundant on top of what we've determined within the past," Ardis aforementioned.

"We've got spring mosquitoes and we have these early summer mosquitoes, and currently we have a tendency to're reaching to see what we decision cat-tail marsh mosquitoes rising in addition. thus we're reaching to see i assume a triple whammy of mosquitoes rising among subsequent few days."

There area unit regarding twenty dipterous insect species that breed in Ottawa, only 1 of that carries West river virus.

So far, with the West Nile-carrying mosquitoes solely getting down to emerge, the virus hasn't nonetheless been detected within the region.

It's counseled folks wear light-weight consumer goods with long sleeves, particularly at evenfall and dawn. they must conjointly use personal protection like deet, check window screens and stop working any standing water sites on their properties.

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