Mosquitoes

A bill before a Michigan Senate committee would make it easier for residents to join the state’s Pesticide Notification Registry.

Mosquitos have seen a five to ten percent drop in population this summer.Michiganders may have noticed a few less itchy bites on their arms, legs and that awful spot in between your fingers. That’s because the weather in recent months has not been very mosquito friendly.This is good news for most people, but not for mosquito experts like Ned Walker. He’s a professor of microbiology and entomology at Michigan State University.

The Kent County Health Department says it's turned up a mosquito in one of its traps carrying the rare Jamestown Canyon Virus.Over the past decade, the Kent County Health Department has been recording an uptick in mosquito borne viruses. Epidemiologists say increasing temperatures, milder winters and increased rainfall are causing mosquito populations to flourish.

State health officials have reported the first mosquito-borne virus of 2021 in Bay, Saginaw and Oakland Counties. The state says the first mosquito-borne…

The state will conduct aerial spraying for mosquitoes in ten Michigan counties after an outbreak of the Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus that’s killed 22…

If you’ve spent any time outside, you’ve probably noticed the mosquitoes are back and biting. But as Reginald Hardwick reports, they could be a lot…

Kent County health officials expect to see some cases of West Nile virus before summer ends.That’s because there are way more mosquitos found with the…

Health officials in Saginaw County say they have identified a serious virus transmitted from mosquitoes to humans.It’s the first positive identification…