Southwest Florida is suffering from the worst assault of mosquitoes in a decade, according to Scott Schermerhorn, Charlotte County’s mosquito and aquatic weed control manager. June’s heavy rains created the perfect breeding ground for salt marsh mosquitoes, whose eggs were dormant during the spring drought. Schermerhorn told Florida Weekly that usually, there’s a week or two in between hatches when crews can spray chemicals that kill both adult mosquitoes and larvae to keep the next round from being as bad. But this time around, the hatches were happening too frequently to establish a spraying routine. Making matters worse- salt marsh mosquitoes have a longer flight range than other mosquitoes. They can fly up to 2 miles in search of their next meal.
