From CBS 8
February 13, 2023
SAN DIEGO — This rainy season has brought much-needed precipitation to California, helping everything grow, including pests like mosquitoes.
San Diego has about two dozen native Mosquitoes, but it’s a non-native that has Chris Conlan, the Supervising Vector Ecologist with the County of San Diego, most concerned.
“One, in particular, is called Aedes aegypti, also known as the Yellow Fever Mosquitoes; it’s a very small Mosquito,” Conlan said.
These Mosquitoes need very little water to multiply, according to Conlan.
“It’s very good at developing very small sources of standing water. Plant saucers, small cups, even bottle caps would be enough to breed a few Mosquitoes,” Conlan said.