Orange County Mosquito Control’s phone hasn’t been ringing the same way it usually does this time of the year. That’s because Florida’s current drought has reduced mosquito populations.
That sounds like good news, but Central Florida mosquito control groups are hard at work ahead of the rainy season to curb the possibility of a population boom and try to mitigate the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases.
“I’m concerned with the possibility of having some West Nile virus,” said Steve Harrison, the director of Orange County Mosquito Control…