At first the park was criticized for being relatively uninviting (with punched card pits promoting mosquito infestation and preventing safe active recreation) and lacked trees or structures to shade students from the sun.

Heavy mosquito infestation and the threat of Indian attacks kept the area from having any permanent white settlements.

The officials said other measures should be taken to avoid mosquito infestations at people's homes, like emptying bird baths and draining areas of the ground where water collects, since water provides a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

After the East Meadow cases were diagnosed, Ms. Brown said, "we did increase surveillance in that area, but we didn't find evidence" of mosquito infestation.

Due to the undesirable conditions of intense humidity and mosquito infestation, the Fort was abandoned by 1824.

Since mosquitoes are defined as a vector, a carrier of disease, the mosquito infestation does present an increased public health danger.

Newspapers this week reported that there was a mosquito infestation in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city, because the city government had no gasoline to dispatch trucks to spray breeding areas.

Both the larvae and adult forms are efficient predators of mosquitoes, so they are a helpful insect to have in wet areas where mosquito infestations occur.

In the episode, after their picnic in the park is cut short due to a mosquito infestation, the Simpsons stop by at an Indian casino.

In 2007 the Orléans Bengals and Gloucester Dukes football clubs had publicly complained about the mosquito infestation within the east-end Ottawa fields, especially the Garneau fields.