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Crews with Duka Environmental Services are set to shift their focus to the next phase of the annual Regional District of Central Okanagan mosquito control program.
They have been busy over the past several weeks checking permanent and temporary water bodies looking for larva and treating the area with VectoBac bacterial larvicide, which controls the development of the insects at their source.
On Monday, June 20, weather permitting, the RDCO mosquito control program will begin treating roadside catch basins in Kelowna, Lake Country, Peachland, West Kelowna, The Westbank First Nation, a portion of West Kelowna Estates and the Sunset Ranch community. The process is expected to continue through Friday, June 24.
The crew will be zipping around on scooters equipped with zip flags, and stopping briefly at the roadside catch basins, where they will drop water-soluble pouches containing pellets of environmentally approved larvicide.
It’s a big job. They have approximately 12,000 sites to visit.
According to Curtis Fediuk of Duka Environmental Services, the species of mosquito that can carry the West Nile virus often lays its eggs in ditches and other standing water near roads and trails.
To ensure late-season mosquitos don’t get ahead of them, a second round of catch basin treatments is scheduled in late July.
You can find out more about the RDCO program and how you can help reduce mosquito breeding sites around your property here.
