Lee County Mosquito Control traps a million mosquitos

Ever wonder what one million mosquitos look like?

Now you don’t have to after Lee County Mosquito Control posted the results of a recent project on Twitter.

They collected one million of the pesky bugs during a trapping project on Sanibel during the summer of 2021.

The bugs take up the volume of an orange Home Depot bucket.

“We’ve had people call and say the mosquitoes are terrible; we got a million mosquitoes around it. So I mean, we’ve heard that so often,” said Erik Jackson, deputy director at Lee County Mosquito Control. “I thought, you know, people really need to see what a million mosquitoes looks like.”

Jackson said the pile of mosquitos made for great pictures.

The post got Twitter talking.

Ever wonder what 1 million mosquitoes looks like?? Check out the results of an LCMCD trapping project that took place in one section of one neighborhood on Sanibel Island over the summer of 2021. #FighttheBite pic.twitter.com/nLX1hdvfz0

— Lee County Mosquito Control (@LeeCoMosquito) February 16, 2022

But the one million mosquitos were not collected for fun. They were collected for science as a part of a 2-year project with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to see if trapping is good for more than just research and could work for mosquito control.

“It’s interesting and I mean, you look at this, you think it’s promising but we’ll see,” Jackson said.