The Moab Mosquito Abatement District recently secured funds to support a citizen science project to monitor mosquitoes, and the district is inviting interested Moabites to a workshop on June 22 at the Grand…
Michele Rehbein, manager of the Moab Mosquito Abatement District, has spent eight years studying the world’s deadliest animal: mosquitos. Each year, mosquitos kill more humans than any other animal due to their ability…
At its regular meeting on Oct. 12, the Moab City Council discussed a state-funded community plan to add more dispersed parking in downtown Moab, a letter outlining the city’s priorities in the Manti-La…
Moab may be a desert, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t mosquitoes. In the summer of 2019, mosquitoes were rampant in the city as the Moab Mosquito Abatement District was short-staffed. . “It…
The Moab Mosquito Abatement District (MMAD) has been fogging the north side of town with the insecticide Permethrin. Permethrin is a manmade neurotoxin in the pyrethroid family. Pyrethroids were originally used in chemical…
Since most mosquitoes lay their eggs in standing water, droughts might seem to reduce mosquito populations, since less water means fewer chances for them to reproduce. But in Moab, that isn’t the case….
A Moab resident tested positive for West Nile virus on Aug. 20, the Southeast Utah Health Department reported. This is the first human case of the mosquito-borne disease in Grand County this year….
The Moab Mosquito Abatement District said in an Aug. 6 press release that two out of 13 adult mosquito samples collected on July 30 tested positive for West Nile virus. One sample was…
