by News Staff | Oct 7, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
Mono County Health Department Extensive water spreading due to high runoff conditions has increased the number of biting mosquitoes in our communities from north of Bishop to south of Big Pine. With the higher river flows out of Pleasant Valley we expect the Aedes...
by News Staff | May 9, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
News release (This is a joint communication from the Mono County Health Department and the Owens Valley Mosquito Abatement Program (OVMAP): Big snow years can mean big mosquito seasons and we are expecting some bugs! Thank you to Rob Miller (OVAP), Anna Scott (Inyo...
by News Staff | Feb 11, 2018 | General Misc. Stories
News release The Owens Valley Mosquito Abatement Program has received an increase in reports from residents seeing mosquitoes this February due to the unseasonably warm weather we have been experiencing. The mosquitoes are probably of the Anopheles or Culiseta...
by News Staff | Oct 2, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
OVMAP news release Recent mosquito trap data indicate that recent aerial larviciding treatments were very successful, with mosquito populations reduced by about half in the two weeks following aerial management activities. To illustrate the scope of what was...
by News Staff | Aug 29, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
News release The Owens Valley Mosquito Abatement Program (OVMAP) confirmed today that another mosquito sample tested positive for West Nile virus. This sample was collected in Lone Pine on August 21. This is the seventh positive sample detected in Inyo County during...