With the warm weather comes the annual mosquito eradication spraying.
The Delaware state Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s Mosquito Control Section has begun treating wooded wetlands near populated areas in New Castle, Kent and Sussex counties.
There are approximately 7,000 to 10,000 acres that have woodland pools where early season mosquitoes breed in quantity.
Aerial spraying of woodland pools must be completed before the forest canopy fills in with leaves usually around mid-April, because leaves prevent the insecticide from reaching pools and other wet spots containing larvae on the forest floor.
