In the midst of mosquito season, Warren County Health Department Administrator Jenna Link offers tips to reduce the number of mosquitoes around your home and avoid mosquito bites that could lead to West Nile Virus:
“Avoid those peak times when they are out biting, which is dusk and dawn. Make sure you wear your protective clothing and repellents and all those good things. The West Nile Virus mosquito, they call if the house mosquito, because it only really flies about a mile from where it lays its’ eggs so if you are seeing it in the area, it has to have some place close by that it is laying its’ eggs. These heavy rains that we have had and things were kind of saturated, water can sit. If it can sit for up to seven days, it can produce mosquitoes. Those flower pots, water baths, keep those pools maintained, and your landscape ponds. Lot of times people will cover something with a tarp and it will sag and hold water, things like that, just look around the house and eliminate that standing water.”
Administrator Link informs a batch of collected mosquitoes in Warren County did test positive for West Nile Virus in June. Mosquitoes will continue to be collected through August.
