The Chicago area has had a volatile spring in terms of its weather, with plenty of rain and fluctuating temperatures, but how could that impact mosquito season?
While experts caution it is too early to know exactly how bad mosquito season will be, Chicago is one of the U.S. cities most impacted by mosquitoes, at least according to a new ranking by Orkin.
The pest control company ranks Chicago as the No. 2-worst city for mosquito issues in the country, behind only Los Angeles.
With the prevalence of mosquito-borne illnesses like West Nile Virus, residents will surely want to know whether they’ll be swatting extra insects this summer, and organizations like the North Shore Mosquito Abatement District are hard at work determining just how bad the issue could be this year.
“April was kind of wet and warm, and we have definitely seen an uptick in our service requests,” Mark Clifton, the organization’s executive director, said. “This is April and May, and we are approaching a July-type number.”
The Abatement District is busy collecting mosquito specimens around the northern suburbs, and they’re also plotting out the thousands of catch-basins where teams will be placing natural pesticides to help kill tiny mosquito larvae.
According to Clifton, the efforts focus on an area stretching from Highland Park to Evanston.
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