Bugs of Turneffe Atoll

[Thatch Caye Belize]

Blackbird clear cut lots of mangroves over the years to achieve a cross breeze and limit the mosquitoes. I haven't been there in several years but I do know that almost all coastal and island areas here in Belize have some mosquitoes during the rainiest times of the year no matter what. Most places out at Turneffe spray for them heavily every time it rains. It did not rain for about four months until the last day in May when tropical storm Arthur began approaching and started to douse us, and a week afterward most of the country near the coast had mosquitoes and I would be very surprised if Blackbird didn't have them last week, but since it has been cleared out a lot, there would not have been as many as when I was there. That was extreme.

 

[peterbj7]

Up here on AC the bugs have been dreadful recently. At last the town board have sprayed and now the bugs are much less. It was caused by the severe rains of a few weeks ago which haven't fully dried up yet.