Longmont’s mosquito control contractor began its weekly warm-weather monitoring of mosquito traps at various locations around the city on Sunday, part of the annual effort that will shift to nighttime fogging in selected neighborhoods when the traps turn up West Nile virus-bearing adult mosquitoes.
Colorado Vector Disease Control International’s trapping will take place Sunday evenings throughout the summer. There are 16 traps throughout the Longmont area to get a representative sampling.
Each week, if Longmont and its contractor determine that fogging is needed to kill mosquitoes in particular areas, advance notice will be posted on the city’s website and its social media sites, and in a notification advertisement in the Times-Call.
No spraying is planned for Longmont this week, according to Dan Wolford, the city’s land program administrator and West Nile program manager.
The fogging, when it is done, is typically performed on Thursday nights, weather permitting.
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