{"id":488294,"date":"2026-10-07T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488294\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:24:09","slug":"fact-brief-does-santa-clara-county-give-out-fish-to-fight-mosquitos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488294\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Brief: Does Santa Clara County give out fish to fight mosquitos?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 150px; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/factBriefImage.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santa Clara offers free mosquitofish to all its residents as a way of combating the mosquito population. Santa Clara County vector control gives away mosquitofish to help control the mosquito larvae population in areas of standing water \u2013 such as ponds, lakes, watering troughs, unused swimming pools, outdoor spas and rain barrels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mosquitofish are natural predators that eat mosquito larvae. They are small fish, no larger than 2.5 inches in length and are an environmentally friendly control option compared to spraying insecticides.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caring for a population of pest-eating mosquitofish is low maintenance. The fish require sunlight pools that are free of chlorine or ammonia and are compatible pond mates to other ornamental fish breeds like goldfish and koi.<\/p>\n<p>Mosquitofish may need supplemental fish food during the winter when insect populations are low.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This Fact Brief is responsive to conversations such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Sunnyvale\/comments\/1w9ybcz\/comment\/p8gof9y\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight partners with <a href=\"https:\/\/gigafact.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Gigafact<\/a> to produce fact briefs \u2014 bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/gigafact.org\/guidelines-principles-and-methodologies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">methodology<\/a> to learn how we check claims.<\/p>\n<p>Sources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes. Santa Clara offers free mosquitofish to all its residents as a way of combating the mosquito population.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-488294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488294","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=488294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}