Virus, Health, Family, Neighbors, and Our Communities

What is more important than the health of our families, our neighbors, and our communities? With these current restraints regarding social distancing and stay at home orders to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 Virus, one silver lining that has emerged is family...

Zika Virus

Zika Virus Zika was first discovered in 1947. Zika, doesn’t infect the same mosquitoes as West Nile virus (the Culex species spreads West Nile). Aedes aegypti mosquito transmits Zika. The Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes spread Zika, Yellow Fever,...

Heavy Rain plus Hot Weather equals Mosquitoes

With significant and frequent rainfall this year, combined with hot temperatures, the mosquito season is buzzing. Puddles of stagnant water are ideal breeding spots for the females to lay their eggs. All a female mosquito needs is a bottle cap of water to lay 100 to...

Are You Prepared for Mosquito Season?

Mosquitoes are remarkably hardy little creatures that can live through drought and withstand freezing temperatures. There are species of mosquito that travel long distances to feed while others live their entire life within 150 feet of their birth place. Mosquitoes...