Chatham County Mosquito Control is responsible for providing a comprehensive, cost effective mosquito abatement program for Chatham County and all of its municipalities.
This is accomplished through the implementation and integration of various safe and environmentally sound mosquito control measures to protect all Chatham citizens from pestiferous and medically important mosquitoes.
Chatham County is the most northern coastal county in Georgia, with a land area of approximately 438 square miles.The area includes a variety of aquatic and terrestrial habitats, such as coastal barrier islands, urban landscape, and xeric sandhill regions. Forty species of mosquitoes are known to occur in the county. Chatham County Mosquito Contrtol has a staff of twenty-nine and is fortunate to be an independent county department, reporting directly to the County Manager.
With the most recent wave of cold weather, we should notice a difference with local mosquito activity. Over the last part of November, warm temperatures and ample rainfall gave rise to a late season increase in mosquito populations, particular a species (Aedes vexans) of mosquito that under normal years is more of a springtime species. The recent weather patterns have not been conducive for treating these late season pest, as temperatures cool down too quickly in the evenings, and remain cool early in the morning hours for treatments to be effective. Please report any mosquito problem in your area, either directly or on-line through our website as operations for nuisance mosquitoes in affected areas will be resumed when weather conditions improve. If you wish to receive notifications of upcoming aerial adulticide missions in your region of the county, please register on the Smart911 system at: https://www.smart911.com/smart911/ref/reg.action?pa=chathamcounty.
It is easy to help stop mosquitoes from reproducing and spreading disease. Mosquitoes need standing water to breed.
Keep all containers around your home free from standing water!