Mosquitoes Calgary

This week alone, City of Calgary Pest Management has caught 7,000 mosquitoes in traps. “We've actually caught more [this month] than we did in the last two ...

“More wet areas create a lot of egg hatches that have been laying dormant in the soil for a few years. Those eggs can ferment for several years, so they’re just waiting for rain to come,” she said. Then those eggs can hatch quite rapidly.” The mosquitoes will often lay their eggs in soil or physically wet areas that commonly flood over. The larvae then stop feeding and die. It does this by applying a bacterial product, Bacillus thuringiensis, into water where mosquito larvae are likely to be.