Save Nature - home. Mozilla Firefox. Welcome to KidsGardening! Garden Resources, Gardening for Families, Teacher's Garden and Shopping for Gardening. Welcome to KidsGardening! Garden Resources, Gardening for Families, Teacher's Garden and Shopping for Gardening. NGA Learning Garden--Course 1. Outsmarting Mosquitoes. Related Content The New Beekeeper Over the last 2 decades BeeWeaver has seen change in who keeps bees, and why they keep bees. The jou... Learn how to keep mosquitoes away with these handy suggestions to repel mosquitoes before they attack. Humans have been taking aim at mosquitoes since 1897, when Sir Ronald Ross identified a tropical species as the vector for deadly malaria. Now, the mosquito's role in spreading West Nile virus — not to mention its itchy bites — has humans in North America up in arms. Human infections have been documented in 39 states and the District of Columbia, and the virus still is on the move.
It's time to get to know your local mosquitoes and lay some defensive plans about how to keep mosquitoes away. West Nile is one of about 30 arboviruses of public health concern that are transmitted by female mosquitoes, which are the only ones that bite. According to the latest CDC data (2002), 4,158 confirmed cases and 284 deaths have been recorded in the United States.