Battling our deadliest predator
Carina LeFave, assistant manager of Grant County Mosquito Control District 1, holds up one of several mosquito traps in the lab at the district’s offices at the Moses Lake Municipal Airport. The district regularly sets out traps to find out what kinds of mosquitoes are flying around Grant County and what diseases they might carry.
CHARLES H. FEATHERSTONE/COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD
Grant County Mosquito Control District 1’s twin-engine Cessna Skymaster 337 (the second engine is in the back) modified to spray mosquitocide sits in a rented hangar at the Grant County International Airport in front of 1,000-pound bags of insecticide. Despite being based at the Moses Lake Municipal Airport, the district uses the longer runway at GCIA to take off and land because it’s safer for its heavily-laden sprayer aircraft, according to District Manager Ann Belchik-Moser.
A special sprayer nozzle attached to the wing of Grant County Mosquito Control District 1’s Cessna Skymaster 337.
A map of Grant County Mosquito Control District I. The county has three districts for the purpose of controlling the buzzing pests.
MOSES LAKE — Mosquitos are more than flying, buzzing and biting annoyances.
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