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No adulticide missions are planned for tonight. Sarasota County Mosquito Management crews are continuing their normal daily surveillance and larvicide treatments to manage the mosquito population.
Completion of missions will be weather permitting.
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” through AlertSarasotaCounty.com, or “Request Service” to report a major mosquito population increase in your area.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Goals and Performance Measures
Goal: Protecting and promoting public health by managing mosquito populations through environmentally sound and fiscally responsible practices.
Objectives:
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Protect the public from the threat of disease vectoring and nuisance mosquito populations by using an Integrated Mosquito Management approach that relies on industry recognized best management practices.
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Educate the public about the risks mosquitoes pose and how to minimize those risks.
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Utilize best management practices for mosquito adult and larval intervention.
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Continue to have excellent customer satisfaction ratings.
Performance Measures:
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Secure a mosquito management aerial UAV contract for FY25 to treat up to 1,000 acres of swamps and woodlots near populated areas.
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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.
Resources
| Contact Us | Phone | Address |
| Mosquito Management Services | 311 | 5531 Pinkney Ave, Sarasota, FL 34233 |