MOSQUITO CONTROL DIVISION

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VOLUSIA COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
MOSQUITO CONTROL DIVISION
JONAS STEWART, DIRECTOR
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Mosquito Control Organizational Chart
Total Number of Employees 28
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Mosquito Control Division
Provides an integrated pest management program
for mosquitoes and other biting insects of public
health importance.

• 28 full time employees
• 2,500 service requests annually
• 10 fogging trucks and two helicopters
• Mosquito surveillance
• Disease surveillance

• Adult larval mosquito control
• Mosquito Source reduction
• Education
• Provides contracted services to local Westside
  municipalities, City of Sanford and SJRWMD

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MOSQUITO CONTROL Response role for disaster events

• Locate and treat larva production sites flooded
  areas from rain and high tide.
• Trap adult mosquitoes from affected areas to
  measure extent of mosquito problem.
• Handle citizen adult mosquito concerns, i.e.
  service requests through telephone, personal
  contact and adult mosquito spraying.
• Work with State and Local Health Departments for
  mosquito born diseases, communication, and
  control.
• Work with Florida Department of Agriculture,
  Consumer Services and contract spray companies.
• Assist other Departments in emergency response,
  i.e. aerial survey.

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MOSQUITO CONTROL COST SAVINGS IMPLEMENTED

• By relocating Daytona Beach facility personnel,
  equipment and materials to our New Smyrna Beach
  facility, we have an approximate annual savings
  of 100,000.

• Constructed 10 slide-in adult mosquito spray
  foggers to allow ten trucks to be used for
  larviciding during the day and fogging runs at
  night therefore, reducing our fleet by 10
  vehicles.

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Mosquito Control Division

• Mosquito Control works to protect the health of
  Volusia County residents by reducing the mosquito
  population and by educating the public on how to
  protect themselves from mosquito bites.

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Mosquito Control Division

• Mosquito Control Inspectors regularly investigate
  areas of standing water that might provide
  breeding habitats for mosquitoes. If mosquito
  larvae are found, the area is treated with
  mosquito larvicide. Larvicide kills mosquitoes
  before they have the opportunity to reach
  adulthood.

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Sentinel Chickens

• Sentinel chicken flocks are maintained by County
  Health Departments or Mosquito Control Districts
  across the state to detect mosquito born viruses
  like West Nile and Eastern Equine Encephalitis

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• Mosquito Control helicopters inspect and spray
  salt marsh mosquito producing sites in the Ormond
  Beach, Port Orange and Oak Hill areas. These
  sprays are environmentally compatible with
  aquatics and marine organisms.

• Mosquito Control performs maintenance on 20 miles
  of hand dug ditches to control mosquito
  development. By removing debris weeds from
  these ditches, minnows can prey on mosquito
  immatures.

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Midges/Blind Mosquitoes

• Midges look like mosquitoes but they dont bite
  or carry diseases like mosquitoes. These insects
  emerge from water bodies in very large swarms
  can emit foul odors stain surfaces.

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Reduction of Mosquito Breeding Sites

• The most important step any property owner can
  take to control the mosquito population is to
  remove all man-made potential sources of stagnant
  water in which mosquitoes might breed.

• It is standing water like that shown above that
  allows mosquitoes to breed so prevalently.

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Current Issues

• Increase in urbanized Eastern Citizens moving
  into freshwater marsh areas.

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Current Issues

• Eastern Equine Encephalitis

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Current Issues

• Salt Marsh ditch restoration and mosquito control.

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QUESTIONS?