Skeeter mountain: Florida agency shares photo of 1 million mosquitoes
FORT MYERS, Fla. – This has all the trappings of one scary sight — one million mosquitoes in one place.
Don’t worry — the insects are dead.
The Lee County Mosquito Control District in southwest Florida posted photos of a trapping project during 2021 on Sanibel Island, WINK-TV reported.
“Ever wonder what 1 million mosquitoes looks like?” the agency posted on Twitter and Facebook.
The bugs filled up an orange Home Depot bucket, according to WINK.
“We’ve had people call and say the mosquitoes are terrible; we got a million mosquitoes around it. So I mean, we’ve heard that so often,” Eric Jackson, deputy director for the Lee County Mosquito Control District, told the television station. “I thought, you know, people really need to see what a million mosquitoes looks like.”
According to the Florida Department of Health, there are more than 80 different species of mosquitoes in the state of Florida, WFLA-TV reported. Several species can transmit pathogens that can cause disease in humans, horses and other animals, the television station reported.
Officials did not say who had to confirm how many dead mosquitoes there were in the bucket, according to WFLA.
The insects were collected as a part of a two-year project with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to see if trapping could work for mosquito control, WINK reported.
“It’s interesting and I mean, you look at this, you think it’s promising but we’ll see,” Jackson told the television station.
