[Music] it only takes a few Acres of Marshland to host billions of mosquito eggs just the thought of it would have most of us reaching for the bug repellent fortunately the Metropolitan mosquito control district has a better solution it's working to prevent mosquitoes from Taking Flight in the first place tv shows us how they do it just below the surface of any neighborhood Hood pond have to get pretty close a new brood of mosquitoes are waiting for the right time to hatch all we're doing is dipping the water uh to see if there's any larvae present and sometimes the larae are really really small to defeat a flying pest the Metropolitan mosquito control district got it yep is also taking to the skies this local government agency operates within the sount metro area surveilling and treating hundreds of sites for mosqu larva at Highlands Park this drone will deliver small pellets lethal to mosquitoes but not Wildlife it is called spinoid that's the active ingredient um and basically it's a bacterium derivative uh that kind of once it's in the water it disperses and gets absorbed by the mosquito and kills them this aerial delivery method is not only faster and more efficient than spreading pelt it's by hand it's also safer some of our sites can be quite uh muddy easy get stuck in full of trees and logs and you know things that you can trip on once those uh pesky mosquitoes are flying around controlling their numbers becomes a lot more difficult there's a lot of non-target effects for spraying when you spray for adult mosquitoes that we don't want to uh mess with uh it's much more environmentally conscious if you're just applying the material to the wetlands this tax-funded work is about more than killing a nuisance insect Vector mosquitoes are mosquitoes that can transmit disease so either they they pick it up from uh like the bird population for instance with West Nile and then they transmit that to uh or potentially could transmit that to humans when they bite a human that's why any standing water like in these tires are a potential problem also we do a lot of uh kind of door-to-door lot inspections with uh things that might be holding water in people's yards like buckets tarps kids toys that kind of thing if you live in the metropolitan mosquito control district you can have those old tires hauled away for free this surveillance and treatment work will be repeated every 30 days to prevent a big problem from buzzing too close to home I'm Dan Carpenter for Adina TV to learn more about having your old tires picked up by the Metropolitan mosquito control district visit mmc.org there you will find an interactive map showing the last time Wetlands near your home were inspected or treated