The southern house mosquitoes can be warded off with any sort of repellant, but insect spray with 30% DEET is recommended for the ankle biters.<\/p>\n
Residents are advised to use a fan, which can blow away the weak fliers, Brannon said. Residents should also make sure screens are in good order and to dump stagnant water at least once a week.<\/p>\n
The unusual warm and wet conditions are being blamed for a sharp increase in mosquito activity across California as far north as Sacramento and especially in Southern California. <\/p>\n
The unusually early start to the mosquito season raises concerns about a brutal bug summer, and the spread of mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile Virus, dengue fever, and St. Louis Encephalitis Virus.<\/p>\n
OC Vector Spokesperson Brian Bannon warned in March that residents can expect a surge in mosquito activity in areas that have recently experienced heavy rains followed by sudden heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The southern house mosquitoes can be warded off with any sort of repellant, but insect spray with 30%…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-384545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384545","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=384545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}