Remember to protect yourself and your family by taking steps to avoid mosquito bites and reduce mosquito populations:

• Apply insect repellent containing DEET according to label instructions when outdoors.
• Wear shoes and socks and long-sleeved, light coloured loose fitting shirts and pants when outdoors.
• Avoid mosquito-laden areas at dawn and dusk.
• Install tight-fitting screens on doors and windows.

Since mosquitoes require water to complete thier development, removing any sources of stagnant water will reduce the number of places where mosquites can live:

• Eliminate or regularly change water in saucers under flower pots, in bird baths, old tires, pet dishes, gutters, pool cavers, trampolines, tarps and other areas where rainwater may collect.
• Swimming pools should be properly maintained and chlorinated and wading pools should be emptied and turned over when not in use.
• Use fine mesh to cover rain barrels and containers that cannot be dumped.

Other less mobile water collectors around your property may include naturally occurring or man-made ponds, ditches or pools. Before draining, moving or otherwise altering any of these, please call the FVRD's Mosquito Control Hotline at 1. 888. 733. 2333.  

For more helpful tips visit the Fraser Health Authority's  website.