If you see a crew of people riding scooters wearing high-visibility vests throughout the Central Okanagan, do not be alarmed. 

From Monday, June 24 through Friday, June 28, the Regional District Mosquito Control program will be out and about stopping briefly at roadside catch basins in Kelowna, Lake Country, Peachland, Westbank First Nation, a portion of West Kelowna Estates in the City of West Kelowna and the Sunset Ranch community in the Central Okanagan East Electoral Area.  

According to the Regional District of the Central Okanagan, the crew will be dropping water-soluble pouches containing pellets of an environmentally approved mosquito larvicide into the catch basin to control mosquito larvae.

Approximately 12,000 roadside catch basins will be treated as these areas participate in funding the Regional District of Central Okanagan Mosquito Control Program.  Another round of catch basin treatments is expected in late July.