Mosquito Fish

Collier County Mosquito Control will be distributing free mosquito fish and traps Saturday at North Collier Regional Park.The fish, Gambusia mosquitofish, are small but can eat up to 100 mosquito larvae a day. Since the program started in 2019, the District has given out more than 23,000 fish.

A state auditor sent down from Tallahassee to perform a standard assessment of the taxpayer-funded Collier Mosquito Control District found its men and women doing a good job

Collier Mosquito Control District is giving county residents two-inch, guppy-like fish to place in flooded yards, swales, and other small areas of standing freshwater left behind by Hurricane Ian to eat mosquito larvae before they grow up and start bothering everyone.

The return of the summer rainy season has provided a reprieve from dangerous drought conditions, but also heralds the return of thick swarms of mosquitos.…