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This species is most active at dusk and dawn, but will gladly take a bite during the day out in the open if a treeline or tall plants (think cattails) are nearby. They’re aggressive biters meaning that even if you shoo them away, they’ll be back a few seconds later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69ebd5d81a1dda074d120dd3/59de5a36-65e1-43e6-99f9-85f415239a7f/IMG_0630.JPEG News - What’s making me itchy - early June edition Considering Ae. increpitus makes use of our natural environment to reproduce, getting rid of them can be a challenge. Draining stagnant water deep in the woods is an uphill battle, as is bringing a backpack sprayer through beaver-hole territory and across acres of uncut trails. Even our treatment drone can struggle to maintain uplink thanks to thick tree canopies overhead. So what do we do? If trails exist, as is the case in some of our more major parks, finding and treating with a larval insecticide works well. 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This time I captured about 20 larvae with every scoop of my white mosquito dipper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69ebd5d81a1dda074d120dd3/22b8b17e-1db4-47d0-8549-4211e8183e6a/20260527_104011.jpg News - A pool in a nook of a bay I found the most larvae in ephemeral pools covered with plants - plenty of places to hide from predators. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69ebd5d81a1dda074d120dd3/c2e09963-c035-4acd-8e9d-bb8cf5f97e95/20260527_141728.jpg News - A pool in a nook of a bay Under a scope these mosquitoes turned out to be Aedes dorsalis, one of the few brackish-water tolerant mosquitoes in the state. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69ebd5d81a1dda074d120dd3/2a7c48ae-2314-43ba-aff2-cd87e1a93f5f/Livingston+May+radius.png News - A pool in a nook of a bay Adults of this species can comfortably fly a mile and a half per night, with some traveling as far as fifteen. Here’s what the more conservative 1.5 mile flight range from this coastline looks like. Know someone that lives within that range? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69ebd5d81a1dda074d120dd3/5c36c0aa-a2d2-4f67-983c-8cf7021593dd/20260527_112326.jpg News - A pool in a nook of a bay Time for some fuzzy math! I found about 20 larvae with every 10 ounce dip in each of about a dozen different pools. How many larvae might be in this little nook of Livingston Bay? On the conservative side, with an average pool size of 10 gallons, there could be over 30,000 mosquito larvae getting ready to pupate and pester the island. More realistically? Easily over 100,000 mosquito larvae. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69ebd5d81a1dda074d120dd3/575f1620-0a11-47fb-8037-707e7268656c/20260528_111423.jpg News - A pool in a nook of a bay Reaching this site with a heavy backpack sprayer would be dangerous - remember all those logs? Instead I launched our treatment from a clearing halfway down the slope. It wasn’t the most challenging landing zone I’ve ever used, but it was close! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69ebd5d81a1dda074d120dd3/c1a4b4ea-c6e5-48ee-84c6-3d8353ac96eb/Livingston+trt.gif News - A pool in a nook of a bay I ended up treating a few acres of ephemeral pools and soggy soil using an insect growth hormone regulator. 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