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Cape Cod Mosquito Control project briefs Yarmouth board on larval control, surveillance and disease risk
Summary
Gabrielle Sokolsky, superintendent at Cape Cod Mosquito Control, told the board the district focuses on larval control (BTI bacteria), ditch maintenance and surveillance rather than adult truck spraying, and outlined last year's trap results for Yarmouth.
Gabrielle "Gabby" Sokolsky, entomologist and superintendent at the Cape Cod Mosquito Control Project, briefed the Yarmouth Board of Health on March 17 about the agency's year-round larval-control and surveillance approach and the local risk of mosquito-borne disease.
Sokolsky emphasized Cape Cod's approach avoids routine truck spraying for adult mosquitoes. "We don't do any of that here on Cape Cod. No spraying for adult mosquitoes here," she told the board, noting the district instead uses water-management, ditch clearing and larval surveillance to treat mosquito development sites early in the season.
She described…
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