Las Vegas' growing mosquito problem is 'a ticking time bomb'

NBC News ^ | August 17, 2025 8:15 AM CDT | Denise Chow

[HerrBlucher]

Well I am low carb now but that’s only recently, i do drink more alcohol, bourbon, then I did when I was younger. But it is probably just due to the changes That people go through when they get older. Allergies they had when they were young they no longer have and vice versa.

I have to admit it’s fun when those around me are complaining about the mosquitoes and I am saying, what mosquitoes?

[pops88]

The mosquitoes were so bad here this Summer that I had to order netting for my bed and practically fumigate as when I lived in Africa. I figured it was from the amount of untended pools we have here from uninhabited homes. My gardener agreed with me. I know several years ago at an HOA meeting they were trying to do something about the green pools of absent homeowners. Being in real estate, with the economy, I suspect the problem has gotten much worse, especially when the banks start looking for realtors to handle their foreclosures. I made a mosquito dunk and it seems to have helped significantly.

[minnesota_bound]

Any still water will let mosquitoes breed.

[minnesota_bound]

I have seen maybe 5 mosquitoes in the San Fernando valley after living here since 1988. I am from Minnesota and there are clouds of mosquitoes and people just swat them and spray them and plant plants that mosquitoes hate.
List of 12 plants:
https://www.gardendesign.com/plants/mosquito-repellent.html

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***it was thought mosquitoes couldn’t survive in desert climates,***
I remember 1955 Utah where mosquitos were so big they could almost suck all the blood out of you! And the welts they left were huge and super itchy. I still remember kids bleeding where they had scratched themselves constantly.
We used to run behind the DDT spray truck for relief in the hot desert sun.