{"id":53514,"date":"2022-06-04T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T23:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=53514"},"modified":"2022-06-04T19:00:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T23:00:57","slug":"lee-county-mosquito-control-to-scout-standing-water-after-fridays-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/06\/lee-county-mosquito-control-to-scout-standing-water-after-fridays-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County Mosquito Control to scout standing water after Friday\u2019s storm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The heavy rain in Southwest Florida on Friday brought a lot of standing water and mosquitoes were not far behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2800\" height=\"1867\" data-id=\"53515\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/636408378754978627-Lehigh-Flood-stranded.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53515\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"515\" data-id=\"53516\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/flooding-1024x515.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/flooding-1024x515.png 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/flooding-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/flooding-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/flooding-1536x772.png 1536w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/flooding.png 1880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We spoke with Eric Jackson, the Deputy Director of Lee County Mosquito Control District to see how they\u2019re going to handle all the new standing water. Jackson said they\u2019ll have crews going out Sunday by ground and by air all over the county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the standing water formed recently, for now, scouting is the plan. They plan on going to areas where there is standing water to scout potential problematic mosquito areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jackson did say that it takes about a day or two until they can actually see the larvae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early in the week, after the inspections on Sunday, Mosquito Control could start doing some larvacide treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jackson then explained how you at home can help by searching your home for standing water and dumping it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople really should look around their homes and see if they have any, any containers any debris,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cEven a palm frond may have fallen down that\u2019s that\u2019s tucked away behind their house that\u2019s holding water is a potential breeding site. So, bird baths, flower pots, anything like that. That\u2019s holding water? They should dump that water out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jackson also said that they\u2019ve been doing pre-treatment the last few weeks because of high tides and the rain. But, with a storm like yesterday, there\u2019s a lot of standing water and mosquitoes could be hatching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heavy rain in Southwest Florida on Friday brought a lot of standing water and mosquitoes were not far behind. We spoke with Eric Jackson, the Deputy Director of Lee&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53517,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53514\/revisions\/53517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}