07/19/2024
Check out this week's RI Mosquito Report: No EEE, WNV, or JCV Findings; State Reminds Rhode Islanders To Use Personal Precautions. Read more: tinyurl.com/j6pz2kyy
RIDOH and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management would like to remind everyone that with the heavy rains predicted next week, it's important to remove mosquito breeding grounds!
• Remove items around your house and yard that collect water. Just one cup of water can produce hundreds of mosquitoes; an unused tire containing water can produce thousands of mosquitoes.
• Clean your gutters and downspouts so that they can drain properly.
• Remove any water from unused swimming pools, wading pools, boats, planters, trash and recycling bins, tires, and anything else that collects water, and cover them.
• Remove or treat any shallow water that can accumulate on top of a pool cover.
• Larvicide treatments, such as Mosquito Dunks can be applied to kill immature mosquitoes. This environmentally friendly product is available at many hardware and garden stores and online.
• Clean and change water in birdbaths at least once a week.
Visit health.ri.gov/mosquito for additional mosquito prevention tips, videos, and local data. Mosquitoes are trapped weekly by DEM and tested at the RIDOH State Health Laboratories.
