Everyone knows how annoying mosquitoes are, which is why, as we approach the rainy season, we’re following up on Collier’s mosquito fish program. “We wanted mosquito fish to be available to our ...
Collier Mosquito Control District is giving county residents two-inch, guppy-like fish to place in flooded yards, swales, and other small areas of standing freshwater left behind by Hurricane Ian to ...
Invasive mosquito fish are often fearless. Free from the predators of their native range, these mosquito fish run rampant, throwing naive ecosystems from Europe to Australia out of whack. To keep the ...
BOULDER — In an out-of-the-way hot-spring pond just outside of Boulder, a century-old colony of tropical fish known for their appetite for mosquitoes is giving health officials another way to combat ...
SAN JOSE (KGO) -- You might want to have some repellant and long-sleeve shirts handy. A bad mosquito season has arrived. That's thanks to spring rain leaving standing water and neglected swimming ...
Brevard County is under a mosquito-borne illness advisory following a locally acquired dengue fever case. The county uses mosquitofish, which eat mosquito larvae, as a biological control method.
Josh Foulon dropped his dipper into a drainage ditch in Slidell and scooped up a ladle-full of water. “I’m getting 50 to 100 mosquito larvae a dip right here,” said Foulon, the field operations ...