Mosquito Surveillance & Treatment

The original and less hospitable Florida geography lies dormant during the dry winter months, then earnestly reappear when the summer rains come. In the eastern part of Collier County, seasonally wet pine flatland areas that rarely saw humans are today backyards, gardens, and parking lots. Then, each rainy season we are all reminded of the true nature of the landscape when swales fill with water, yards flood, and mosquito populations explode.

At the southern coastal reaches of the county lies an estuary ecosystem in Rookery Bay, and beyond that lies the 10,000 Islands. While strikingly beautiful, these areas provide an extremely productive habitat for the salt marsh mosquito. Each spring, billions — if not trillions — of these mosquitoes hatch in those mangroves and fly into our communities. The salt marsh mosquito is known to fly up to 40 miles in search of a meal.