Unfortunately, outside is where millions of mosquitoes are waiting for us. Mosquito trucks and planes have already started spraying across the Houston region. With so many stinging pests out there ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. We squash mosquitoes with our enormous hands. We poison-bomb them from spray trucks and airplanes. We irradiate them ...

“If you see a Harris County truck spraying, it means we’ve identified a positive case of West Nile virus, Zika, dengue, ...

The focus of the adulticide program will again be to minimize active adult mosquitoes. Trucks use ultra-low volume sprayers to dispense a light, visible fog throughout neighborhoods. The fog will ...