Many Seven Isles residents are reporting a heightened problem with mosquitoes this summer. In addition to being a nuisance, mosquitoes can carry serious and life-threatening diseases like encephalitis, yellow fever, malaria, and dengue.
Residents can contact Broward County Mosquito Control if you are experiencing an infestation of mosquitoes. Not only can you request an area spray to reduce the mosquito population, but a mosquito expert can also come to your home to analyze whether you have evidence of any disease-carrying mosquitoes on your property. A lab technician will harvest mosquito samples from your surrounding landscaping and pool areas. You will be notified if anything significant is found once the mosquito larvae are examined in the laboratory.
Unfortunately, there are many properties in Seven Isles that are actually providing breeding grounds for mosquitos. Certain types of landscaping benefit mosquitos and serve as perfect incubators for mosquito larvae. Among the worst offenders are bromeliads. Bromeliads have tubular leaves that catch rain water and sprinkler water, and serve as a perfect incubator for mosquito larvae to grow and hatch. Even if you don’t have bromeliads in your own landscaped beds, your next door neighbor could be hatching those pesky mosquitoes coming your way.
According to Broward County Mosquito Control, an effective way to reduce our current infestation of mosquitoes is to destroy these waterbeds, such as removing bromeliads and any other vegetation that traps or holds water. Also be mindful of any “natural water containers” on your property, such as fallen palm frond limbs, kayaks and canoes, empty planters, buckets, children’s toys, and anything else that can contain rain water or water from sprinklers. Check your roof gutters for any clogged leaves.
Any of these can be a breeding ground for mosquitoes, which quickly advance from eggs to larvae in only 48 hours. Depending on their species, mosquitos can have a life cycle that varies as widely as from four days to thirty days. Regardless of their incubation period, all larvae can hatch into hungry, blood-sucking, disease-carrying mosquitoes in a short time.
To request a service spray in Seven Isles or a sample collection at your home, go to the Broward County Mosquito Control webpage of the BrowardCounty.org website and complete an online form: https://www.broward.org/Mosquito/Pages/MosquitoServiceRequest.aspx
Or Call 954-765-4062 from a landline, or 311 from your mobile phone.
