Heatwave means fewer mosquitoes pestering Calgarians

CALGARY – While many of us laboured through the heat this past week, there is one benefit.

You may have noticed, if you’ve spent more time outside during the evenings, that there are fewer mosquitoes.

Alex Pepperdine, a pest management technician with the city says the hot, dry weather in June took care of the pests.

“It’s not leaving a lot of habitat for those mosquito eggs to hatch in and grow, so I guess that’s one benefit of really hot temperatures,” she said.

The decline in mosquito numbers is quite startling, actually.

“We have about six white traps we use to just kinda measure mosquitoes around the city. It’s usually, on average, like over the last four years, we usually get about 34 mosquitoes per trap. This week we got less than one–0.83 or something–so we’re getting less than one mosquito per trap.”

She also says you may notice more bugs in your house, like ants, as they look for refuge from the heat.

While the recent weather has led to a decline in mosquitoes, we could pay for it later in the summer.

Pepperdine says the conditions are ideal for an increase in wasps.

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