The Orkin company released their Top 50 Mosquitoes Cities List for 2018, and the Texas region took some spots on the list.
Waco-Temple-Bryan moved up 15 spots, from #56 to #41. Dallas jumped four spots from last year, and is now ranked #2.
The list below ranks the metro areas (DMA) where Orkin conducted the most mosquito treatments over the past year:
1. Atlanta
2. Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas (+4)
3. New York (+1)
4. Washington, D.C. (-2)
5. Chicago (-2)
6. St. Louis, Mo. (+20)
7. Houston
8. Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (-3)
9. Kansas City, Mo. (+15)
10. Charlotte, N.C. (-1)
11. Detroit (-3)
12. Memphis, Tenn. (+2)
13. Nashville, Tenn. (-3)
14. Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla. (-3)
15. Raleigh-Durham, N.C. (+2)
16. Los Angeles (+13)
17. Philadelphia (+4)
18. Birmingham, Ala. (+18)
19. Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, Fla. (-7)
20. Austin, Texas (+17)
21. Mobile-Pensacola, Fla. (-6)
22. Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek, Mich. (-4)
23. Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, Va. (-10)
24. Indianapolis, Ind. (+11)
25. Phoenix, Ariz. (-5)
26. Albany-Schenectady-Troy, N.Y. (+8)
27. Lafayette, La. (+5)
28. Baton Rouge, La. (+12)
29. New Orleans, La. (-2)
30. Richmond-Petersburg, Va. (-7)
31. Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., Asheville, N.C (-9)
32. Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. (-2)
33. Boston (-14)
34. Wichita-Hutchinson, Ka. (+40)
35. Tulsa, Okla. (+14)
36. Hartford-New Haven, Conn. (-5)
37. San Antonio, Texas (+2)
38. Springfield, Mo. (+79)
39. Abilene-Sweetwater, Texas (+18)
40. Oklahoma City (+48)
41. Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas (+15)
42. Baltimore, Md. (-14)
43. Huntsville-Decatur, Ala. (+10)
44. Shreveport, La. (-2)
45. Portland-Auburn, Maine (+17)
46. Knoxville, Tenn. (-13)
47. Cleveland-Akron-Canton, Ohio (-22)
48. West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce, Fla. (-32)
49. Bangor, Maine (-4)
50. Harlingen-Brownsville-McAllen-Weslaco, Texas (+21)
Mosquitoes become more active as temperatures rise, with mosquito season ranging from April to October – and with above-average temperatures, the South Central region (from St. Louis down to Texas) made a comfortable home for the blood-sucking pests.
While the spread of Zika virus in the U.S. has decreased, it remains a concern because there is no treatment, cure or vaccine. One of the best strategies for eliminating mosquito-borne diseases is to reduce populations of the mosquitos that spread them.
For more mosquito information and prevention tips, you can go here.
Source: Orkin
