HUTCHINSON ISLAND — Aerial mosquito control operations are underway over parts of North and South Hutchinson Island as St. Lucie County targets breeding areas in mangrove marshes.
The St. Lucie County Mosquito Control District began an aerial larviciding mission Monday, April 13, with treatments scheduled to continue through April 24, weather permitting.
A small airplane is dispersing granular larvicide over saltwater mangrove marshes along South Hutchinson Island between Bear Point Sanctuary and Nettles Island, as well as portions of North Hutchinson Island and a small area north of Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute…