The Philadelphia Department of Public Health is taking steps to control mosquito populations in the city and giving recommendations to residents on how to protect against them too. <\/p>\n
On Friday, July 31, 2026, the Department’s Vector Control staff will spray a treatment in Wister Woods Park and Wakefield Park in the Logan area of Philadelphia, as well as in the surrounding neighborhood, to target mosquitoes.<\/p>\n
Mosquito samples taken by the Vector Control staff in that region showed that its population of adult mosquitoes may carry the West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne infection, according to the Department of Public Health. <\/p>\n
Crews will use a truck-mounted machine to spray Duet Dual Action Adulticide, a synthetic pyrethroid. It will have no residual effects on the area and will quickly evaporate, officials said. <\/p>\n
The department recommends residents take precautions to protect themselves against mosquito bites, including:<\/p>\n
Using insect repellent with DEET, picaridin, or lemon eucalyptus oil.<\/p>\n
Wearing long sleeves, long pants, and socks when outside. <\/p>\n
Limiting time outdoors during dawn and dusk. <\/p>\n
Measures the Department encourages residents to take to clear mosquito-breeding areas include: <\/p>\n
Removing items that can catch and hold water (trash cans, plastic containers, pots). <\/p>\n
Drilling holes in the bottom of outdoor trash cans, recycling containers. <\/p>\n
Turning over plastic baby pools at the end of the day. <\/p>\n
Removing old tires.<\/p>\n
Cleaning clogged roof gutters.<\/p>\n
Frequently changing water in birdbaths <\/p>\n
Cleaning and chlorinating swimming pools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Department of Public Health is taking steps to control mosquito populations in the city and giving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1057,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-255579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-health","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}