Manhattan, NY – Residents of a New York neighborhood said their homes are being swarmed by mosquitoes that have not been deterred by the December weather.
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Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal said residents of West 84th Street on the Upper West Side said the mosquito problem in the area is akin to “something from the Third World,” but residents have received no help from the city, the New York Post reported Monday.
“People on West 84th have been contacting city agencies and other officials complaining about the enormous number of mosquitoes, but they haven’t listened. They tell them to hire a private exterminator,” Rosenthal said. “I’ve heard people are sleeping under mosquito netting because their children are being bitten up.”
Rosenthal said she was able to convince the city to lay traps in the sewers and Con Ed workers paved over sinkholes allowing the insects to escape from underground, but the problem persists.
They should get dragonflies.
They should definitely do something, every night I don’t stop scratching and always hav a fear of bedbugs, thank god its only mosquitos
here in brooklyn, whenever I open my door, mosquitos come flying in, and who do you think they bite? nobody but me. I had bedbugs a few years ago, and was scared that I got them again, but then I realized it was the mosquitos!
Introduce bats. They love mosquitoes and eat about twice their body weight each night. But then you’re living with bats which can be creepier than rats. Mosquitoes thrive in stagnant water. Clean up standing water and they won’t breed into these swarming masses.
Another ‘official’ issue…
What is their problem?
Does the Government Really have to Bail them out of Everything??!!
Why not Try Protesting?!
Mice or snakes eat mosquitoes. Borrow the python from the zoo!
well all those environmentalists that want every chemical banned because it MAY adversely affect someones health, meanwhile you have thousands dying in third world countries from malaria, you have bedbugs making a comeback you have vermin and insects that were eliminated from inhabited areas making a comeback…so to all the liberals on the west side you deserve nothing less than to ravaged by mosquitoes….as for the rest of you….i feel for you…