mosquitoes

Earlier this year, we explained this insect earned the title of the deadliest creature in the world. Now we have another tip to protect yourself!

Bears. Rattle Snakes. Wolves. Mountain Lions. Sure, all of those have the potential to harm you, but the number of people they kill per year is significantly lower than this particular creature.

As a species, the little blood suckers are responsible for around 70,000 a year and it’s mostly because of the diseases they carry and pass on to humans.

They’re not large. They’re not ferocious. But they are about to be active again across the state.

Y’all why does no one talk about the bug problems in Idaho? The mosquitoes right now are terrible! This is top of mind for me I guess because I recently...

You love those long summer nights by the pool, at the lake, sipping wine on a patio by the Greenbelt…until the next morning when you wake up in a fit of itchiness.

That's not a plane filled with Idahoans heading out on vacation. That's a plane dropping an application to control adult mosquitoes and head off the West Nile Virus.

We've heard a lot about people walking around "asymptomatic" with COVID in the past year, and it turns out that can happen with West Nile too. Hundreds of Idahons will likely have the West Nile virus this summer and not even know it.

Mosquitoes love moisture, and the Treasure Valley has plenty of it right now. As the Boise River flooding subsides, West Nile could be the big new worry.

Soon the weather will warm up and we'll move this party outside, and we'll be camping and fishing and playing golf.  With the bugs. Mosquitoes aren't a huge problem in Idaho, but if you run across them there are many repellents that won't work.  Here's the heads up for your camping trip.