On Tuesday, the skies over the community will be filled with a swarm of more than 140,000 mosquitoes that are being set free. The Sacramento Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District says it will then be intentionally releasing two million more mosquitoes in the neighborhood over the next 16 weeks.
The insects are all sterile males, which don't bite people, and when they breed with wild female mosquitoes, the eggs won't hatch.
Last year, the district tried this technique in the South Natomas neighborhood for the first time and they say it was successful.
The district says it has been going door to door in the Rosemont neighborhood with flyers notifying people about the mosquito release.
"There's probably 10 million mosquitoes here, so that will be great," Weaver said. "That will make a difference."
But the district is also looking at building its own breeding lab here in Sacramento that could one day produce up to a million sterile mosquitoes a week.
Google may also soon be helping to fight the bite.
The high-tech company has filed an application with federal regulators asking for permission to release up to 16 million sterile male mosquitoes a year in California.
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