Mosquito Populations Increase Due to Wetter Spring

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A wetter than normal spring produced a lot of mosquito larvae, which are now taking wing to feed on us.
“It seems to have increased three times what it would normally be. In some areas, it’s a little higher. In some places, it’s five to six times higher,” Brian Pendergast, Maryland Department of Agriculture’s mosquito control manager, said.
The MDA uses traps. In some, 150 female mosquitoes have been trapped in a single night. Twenty-fou