Warm Weather Brings Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes To Rockland, Westchester Counties
Early warm weather has brought disease-carrying
mosquitoes to areas of Rockland and Westchester Counties.
It’s tricky business trying to tame a tiger — the Asian
tiger mosquito, that is. The daytime biting, disease-carrying vector first
turned up in Rockland County last summer, and it’s feared that the mild winter
spared many eggs.
The county is monitoring breeding grounds and handing out
larvicide for swimming pools. It’s also getting ready to distribute fat head
minnows — little fish that feast on baby skeeters before they fly away.
The Asian tiger is being monitored in southern Westchester
County, too, where it first appeared two years ago.
When doing spring cleaning outdoors, Rockland and
Westchester County residents are advised to dump their standing water, as the
Asian tiger needs just a bottle-cap full in order to breed.
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