Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 24, 2024
5min0
'I rest easy, and Floridians can too, knowing our state has the nation’s best mosquito-control teams working to protect our health and our economy.'
Tag: Florida Keys Mosquito Control District
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 24, 2024
Guest AuthorJanuary 22, 20245min0
This is not the time for any of us to drop the ball.
Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMarch 14, 2017
5min314
A British company could begin releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys sometime this year, a scientist with the company said. Simon Warner, the chief scientist at Oxitec, said the company is hopeful it can begin its genetically modified mosquito trial in Monroe County this year. The trial, which has been in the works […]
Associated PressMay 16, 2016
7min247
The mosquitoes that can spread Zika are already buzzing among us. The U.S. government could use some help figuring out exactly where. No experience is necessary for what the U.S. Department of Agriculture envisions as a nationwide experiment in citizen-science. Teenagers already have proven themselves up to the task in tryouts involving a small number […]