Claim:
A photograph genuinely shows a pile of 1 million mosquitoes “caught in a trap in Sanibel, Florida.”
Rating:
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A photograph shared to Reddit on April 17, 2024, (archived here ), claimed to show 1 million mosquitoes that had been “caught in a trap in Sanibel, Florida.” The post had received more than 43,000 upvotes at the time of this publication.
What 1,000,000 mosquitos looks like. Caught in a trap in Sanibel, Florida.
by u/MoXWT in BeAmazed
To confirm whether this claim was true. Snopes conducted a Google keyword search (archived here ) using the phrase “1 million mosquitoes sanibel florida.” Returned results included dozens of credible news reports that included the image, such as WFLA , WTSP and CBS News .
One outlet, Atlanta’s WAGA , included a link to a Facebook post shared by the Lee County Mosquito Control District on Feb. 16, 2022, which featured a photo of the massive mosquito mound . According to the post, the image genuinely showed the “results of an LCMCD trapping project that took place in one section of one neighborhood on Sanibel Island over the summer of 2021.”