070318 LCJ Mosquitos (CJ)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Mike Adam, senior biologist, with the Lake County Health Department in Libertyville holds a gravid trap net to catch adult female mosquitos to find out if they carry the West Nile virus.The plastic container holds organic matter and when the female mosquito gets ready to lay her eggs in the water the fan sucks up the mosquito and she is trapped in the net to later be examined to see if she carries the West Nile virus.(7/2/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Mike Adam, senior biologist, with the Lake County Health Department talks about the gravid trap he sets out at night to catch mosquitos to see if they carry the West Nile virus.There are approximately thirty gravid traps around Lake County.(7/2/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Mike Adam, senior biologist, holds up a box of different species of mosquitos used as a reference to identify them after they are caught to see whether they carry the West Nile virus at the Lake County Health Department in Libertyville.There are thirty different mosquitos in Lake County, only a few can transmit the West Nile virus.(7/2/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Mike Adam, senior biologist, holds a larvicide pellet he is about to put into a storm drain with standing water to kill mosquito larvae on the property of the Lake County Central Permit Facility in Libertyville.The pellet will last 150 days. (7/2/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Mike Adam, senior biologist with the Lake County Health Department, holds a larvicide pellet he is about to put into a storm drain full of standing water to kill mosquito larvae on the property of the Lake County Central Permit Facility in Libertyville.The pellet is made of bacteria that does not affect wildlife. It takes one week for the larvae to become adult mosquitos. (7/2/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Mike Adam, senior biologist, with the Lake County Health Department, shows a larvicide pellet put in catch basins around Lake County to kill mosquito larvae.The pellet is made of bacteria that does not affect wildlife.(7/2/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media A passive mosquito trap is used to catch mosquitos in Lake County to find out if they carry the West Nile virus.The plastic container holds organic liquid matter to bait female mosquitos as they are trapped inside after laying eggs where biologists can examine them to see whether they carry the West Nile virus.(7/2/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media A storm drain with a catch basin of water was treated a week ago with a larvicide pellet to kill mosquito larvae by the Lake County Health Department on the property of the Lake County Central Permit Facility in Libertyville.(7/2/18)