The Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District announced Wednesday that an invasive mosquito species has been detected in Antioch and larvicide will be sprayed to control larval mosquitoes later this week.
The district will use truck-mounted spray equipment to apply the larvicide between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Friday.
A news release said that the “area to be treated is bordered on the north by Mountaire Drive and Ashburton Drive; on the south by Brookside Drive and Burwood Way; on the east by Barmouth Drive; and on the west by Garrow Drive.”
The detection in the region of the Aedes aegypti, an invasive disease-spreading mosquito, prompted this action.
The larvicide VectoBac WDG only impacts mosquito larvae, and no other animals or insects will be affected by it, the district said.
Larvicide, Suicide, Genocide….Herr Gavin likes the sound of that