Quiet Mosquito Season So Far In Manchester, Region

MANCHESTER, CT — So far, it's been a quiet mosquito season in Manchester specifically and in north Central and eastern Connecticut in general.

And that's a healthy thing.

Each season, mosquitoes are collected at various sites around the state, identified, and tested at The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven. State officials then compiler a chart with the locations of the sites, the number of mosquitoes tested, and what virus isolations are detected. As of July 7, the total number of mosquitoes tested numbered 40,845.

In Connecticut, the state Mosquito Management Program (which includes CT DEEP) operates its trapping and testing season from June through October. Mosquitoes are typically most active statewide during the warmest and most humid months of July, August and September.

The State Mosquito Monitoring Program—a collaborative effort between CT DEEP, the Department of Public Health, and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station—actively monitors and tests for mosquito-borne illnesses.

Here are the results from mosquito collection and tasting from towns in north central and eastern Connecticut through July 7:

North Central

• Glastonbury: Tryon Street, 13 tested, all negative
• Manchester: Oak Grove Street, 35 tested, all negative
• Somers: Durkee Road, 215 tested, all negative
• South Windsor: Burgess Road, 1,048 tested, all negative
• Tolland/Vernon: Bolton Lake, 110 tested, all negative
• Willington: Saunders Road, 154 tested, all negative

Eastern

• Mansfield: Fieldstone Drive, 121 tested, all negative
• Windham: Bass Road, 113 tested, all negative
• Hebron: Raymond Brook Marsh, 149 tested, all negative
• Columbia: Route 66, 1671 tested, all negative
• Sterling: Main Street, 81 tested, all negative
• Sprague: Inland Road: 54 tested, all negative
• Canterbury: Quinebaug Camp Road, 1,260 tested, all negative
• Hampton: Hampton Reservoir, 162 tested, all negative
• Franklin: Wildlife Management Area, 72 tested, all negative