{"id":270941,"date":"2026-04-16T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/270941\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:50:07","slug":"staying-bite-free-as-mosquito-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/270941\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying bite free as mosquito season begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County is seeing some springtime warmth in the forecast and that means mosquitos are already buzzing.<\/p>\n<p>As the community heads outdoors to enjoy the weather it is important to take precautions to avoid mosquito bites.<\/p>\n<p>Bites from insects like mosquitos can cause illnesses like West Nile Virus, which can cause flu-like symptoms according to the CDC.<\/p>\n<p>There are simple ways to protect yourself and your loved ones from bites this season.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Avery with Sawyer Products joined ARC Bakersfield to share how to stay protected.<\/p>\n<p>More information about mosquito protection and prevention can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sawyer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sawyer.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County is seeing some springtime warmth in the forecast and that means mosquitos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-270941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}