Alameda County Vector Control

Third Quarter 2020 Services District Activities update. Overall requests for service are up 11.1%, and rodent requests are up 23.2% over the same timeframe last year. Wasp and bee requests for service are continuing on the very high level of 81% over 2018 levels for both 2019 and 2020!

The following is our second quarterly report for 2020.

Grub control time! If you have had problems with raccoons or skunks "grubbing" in your lawn or garden, now is the time to control these larval beetles. Here is some advice attached:

We have an ongoing tick surveillance and testing program, and here are our staff "flagging" for ticks. These flannel cloth flags easily pick up "questing" ticks on the edges of vegetation.

Ixodes pacificus, our Lyme disease tick.