The Sutter Yuba Mosquito and Vector Control District will start the Town Fogging program beginning Thursday evening June 18th. Each Thursday evening beginning at sunset and lasting up to 3 hours, ground fogging trucks will be out to reduce the number of mosquitoes accumulating in the town areas. The District will be using Permanone RTU, […]
The Sutter-Yuba Mosquito and Vector Control District plans to begin aerial treatment of area rice fields to curtail mosquito production. The District contracts with an agricultural crop dusting service to perform the work. The fields to be treated are outside of urban and residential areas located north of Marysville, east of Linda/Olivehurst, east of Plumas
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Beginning June 11th, 2015 District staff will begin visiting homes where suspect pools have been identified. Technicians will be wearing a photo ID and be dressed in tan uniforms. Once consent has been given for vector control technicians to enter the backyard, a pool can be quickly and easily treated. There is no penalty, fine or
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During the week of May 25 through 29 the Sutter-Yuba Mosquito and Vector Control District will be utilizing an aerial photography service to identify abandoned, neglected and green pools, spas and ponds in the urban areas of the District. A fixed wing airplane will make several passes over resedential areas from a high altitude to
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District staff is seeing some mosquito production on irrigated pastureland. To eliminate mosquitoes produced in these limited agricultural areas, some adulticide spraying may occur as needed without notice.
The Sutter-Yuba Mosquito and Vector Control District has been inspecting spring breeding sources of mosquitoes in urban areas. Unseasonably warm temperatures have accelerated mosquito production and technicians are finding larvae in most standing water that has been checked. Urban sources are of particular concern as they produce mosquitoes that can transmit West Nile virus. While
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Why does the District make such a big effort to identify and treat green swimming pools? A neglected swimming pool is perfect breeding habitat for mosquitoes. One pool can produce hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes over a summer. Urban mosquito production has become a bigger cause for concern since 2003, when West Nile virus entered the State
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District staff is now finding active mosquito breeding in neglected green swimming pools and other backyard breeding sources. District residents are strongly encouraged to look through their yards for any type of container that may hold water. Spring rains and yard irrigations can keep many of these mosquito breeding sources full of water. Most of
District staff is monitoring mosquito production along the Sacramento River near the towns of Meridian and Knights Landing. If adult mosquitoes reach a threshold where spraying becomes warranted, some localized spraying will take place to abate the problem.
Beginning April 1, 2015 mosquitofish will be available for residents within the District free of charge Monday through Friday 7AM to 3PM. Mosquitofish are an excellent option for treating mosquito breeding sources around your home or ranch. Great places to use mosquitofish include unmaintained swimming pools and jacuzzis, backyard ornamental ponds, livestock watering troughs, and other containers. A small
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