Mosquitoes are likely to be a big problem this summer, thanks to all of the much-needed water we now have.
It's turning out to be a lot of work for mosquito abatement crews as they are now dealing with more marshland than they've seen in decades.
"We more than tripled the number of acres that we normally spray in May, just because of the large number of adults we're seeing," Gary Hatch, from the Davis Mosquito Abatement District, said. "It's really tough to keep up with that. We're hoping that things start to calm down a little bit," Hatch added.The district's plane sprayed about 45,000 acres last month. But there's still some work that has to be done by ground.
"In the month of May, we started with high numbers of our flood water mosquitos from all the flooding and now with all that water out there, the mosquitos that carry disease, they lay their eggs on top of the water," Hatch said."And they are starting to hatch off in big numbers right snow," he said.
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