WEST PALM BEACH — As the last sunlight begins to slip out of sight on Labor Day, up in the skies above western Palm Beach County officials will be doing their part to eradicate mosquitoes.
The county’s Division of Mosquito Control will be conducting aerial spraying over 230,000 acres of populated areas west of Military Trail beginning a half-hour after sunset Sept. 1.
The areas targeted will be the Acreage/Loxahatchee/Royal Palm Beach region, Palm Beach Gardens, Wellington, unincorporated Lake Worth, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Boca Raton and the Glades communities of Pahokee, Belle Glade, South Bay and Lake Harbor.The county said in a news release Aug. 29 that it was responding to “increased mosquito levels and (the) potential of vector-borne disease threats.”…