Since Crawford County has an abundance of lakes, streams, marshes and other wetland habitat, the mosquito is certainly not a unnoticed insect to anyone. Recently because of vaccines and other modern medical advancements not much importance has been placed on the mosquitoes ability to vector disease.
Mosquitoes are small flies that beed in standing water.
Many of the eggs are laid as rafts or singly with floats on them. The wrigglers feed on microscopic plant life, molt several times as they grow, and become tumblers, or pupae, that turn into adults. The entire process can take place in as short as time as 10 days in midsummer. Many problems with mosquitoes can be traced to backyard containers of water such as children's toys, pots and cans, tire swings, urns, animal tracks and plugged rain gutters. Nearby areas include cemetery pots, construction sites and trash dumps.