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Sept. 6, 2024: The Florida Department of Health has advised a mosquito-borne illness advisory for Sarasota County due to an increase in West Nile Virus (WNV) activity. 

No adulticide missions are planned for tonight. Staff are continuing their normal daily surveillance and larvicide treatments to manage the mosquito population. 

Visit our “Planned Mission Map” at www.scgov.net/mosquito for more details about application time, pesticide applied and treatment location. You may also “Register for Treatment Notifications” or “Request Service” to report a major mosquito population increase in your area. #SRQCountyMMS

Completion of missions will be weather permitting.  

Mission Statement: Sarasota County Mosquito Management is dedicated to protecting and promoting public health by managing mosquito populations through environmentally sound and fiscally responsible practices.

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Fight the Bite 

Mosquitoes thrive by breeding in standing water around your home. Mosquito bite prevention is key to avoiding all mosquito-related illnesses in both humans and animals. Let’s “Fight the Bite” together with these three easy steps:

1. Drain Standing Water.

Eliminating mosquito breeding grounds is one of the best preventative measures to reduce mosquito populations and to protect your home.

Dump and drain water from containers such as buckets, pet dishes, bird baths, gutters, tarps, and other items that collect water.

Cover containers such as trash cans, rain barrels, or abandoned pools.

Discard old tires, drums, children’s toys, trash, or other items that are not being used, or take them indoors.

Please note that bromeliad plants are a natural container and breed mosquitoes. Consider treating or removing them.

2. .Cover Your Skin.

Mosquitoes can bite at any time, day, or night. If you must be outside when mosquitoes are active, please consider the following:

• Cover your skin by wearing loose-fitting clothes that cover your arms and legs and wear shoes and socks.
• Apply repellent to bare skin and clothing. EPA-registered insect repellents are effective and recommended by the CDC.

 3. Keep Mosquitoes Out.

Mosquitoes can live indoors as well as outdoors, so try to keep mosquitoes out of your house.

• Install or repair screening on windows, doors, porches, and patios.
• Keep doors closed and do not leave them propped open.
• Use air conditioning when possible.

 Sarasota County Mosquito Management is here to help. If you have a mosquito problem, please call 311 for more information or schedule a Service Request.

Goals and Performance Measures 

Goal: Protecting and promoting public health by managing mosquito populations through environmentally sound and fiscally responsible practices.

Performance Measures:

• Secure a mosquito management aerial UAV contract for FY25 to treat up to 1,000 acres of swamps and woodlots near populated areas.
• Mosquito Management will negotiate with public land managers to update the Arthropod Management Plans for Public Lands adjacent to populated areas to include surveillance and larviciding if needed.