Buzzing Into Spring: Stop Mosquitoes Early

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Spring in Southern California is off to a dry, warm start with breezy nights to keep residents cool. This could mean more outdoor fun and nights under the stars, but don’t forget about everybody’s common enemy - the mosquito. Mosquitoes can be a real threat to your community because they can transmit debilitating and sometimes fatal diseases like West Nile virus to humans. Keep mosquitoes out of your home and prevent mosquito bites with these tips.

Add Mosquito Sources to your Spring Cleaning Checklist

Keep mosquitoes from buzzing into spring by eliminating sources and standing water starting now. Download the Mosquito Source Checklist and identify common sources in your home. Tip and toss stagnant water weekly.

Did you know mosquito eggs only need 5 to 7 days to grow into biting adults?

Download the Mosquito Source Checklist

Repel, Don’t Swell

Remember to wear insect repellent to protect your health. The CDC recommends using repellents with active ingredients such as DEET, Picaridin, IR3535, and Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus. It’s extremely important to wear insect repellent when you travel abroad as well, especially when visiting sub-tropical and tropical regions.

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Start Your Own Spring-Cleaning Mosquito Crew

Mosquito Watch is a neighborhood program designed to protect our communities from mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases. With guidance from mosquito experts and your leadership, you can inspire your neighbors to act, and reduce mosquito breeding and disease transmission in your neighborhood. Contact the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District at mosquitowatch@glacvcd.org.

Website Accessibility Policy

Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District is fully committed to providing accessible facilities, elements and channels of communication to all members of the public. As part of this commitment, Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District has a policy of providing an accessible website compatible with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) and commercial screen reading software. All features of the website are coded to allow individuals with vision and other impairments to understand and use the website to the same degree as someone without disabilities. We welcome feedback and can often resolve issues in a timely manner if they arise.

If you need any special assistance or accommodations:

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Ongoing Compliance Information

Compliance Officer

Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District has designated a compliance officer for website disability-related accommodations. The compliance officer has received training in website accessibility and updates the site in accordance with those best practices. Contact our accessibility officer to report an issue.

Compliance Procedures and Reports

In addition to testing with users with a wide range of disabilities and coding our website to WCAG standards, Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District regularly scans its website to ensure ongoing compliance, and makes timely changes to any inaccessible changes, if any are found.

Linked Documents and Third Parties

Please note that this site may link out to third-party websites, such as state or federal agencies, that do not have accessible content. This site may also include documents provided by third parties included in our agenda packets, for example. While we cannot control the accessibility of content provided by third parties, we are happy to assist any member of the public with reading and accessing content on our site.

See an opportunity for us to improve? Please contact our accessibility officer or call us at 562-944-9656.

Report a Website Accessibility Issue

We are committed to your ability to access all content, and we will respond to all requests as soon as possible.