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• When possible, stay in facilities with screened windows and doors, as well as air conditioning, to reduce risk of mosquito bites. • When you are outdoors and mosquitoes are present, wear clothing such as shoes, socks, long pants and a long-sleeved shirt to cover most of your skin. Infants should be kept indoors or mosquito netting should be used over carriers when mosquitoes are present. BEYOND SPRAYING Smith worked as lead supervisor for the Coachella Valley Mosquito Control District in California and as an entomologist for the Mobile County Health Department in Alabama before he came to Sarasota County in 2013. When he tells people he works for mosquito management, people usually say, "Oh you're the guys that spray from trucks." "We do that, but there is so much more to what we do," Smith pointed out to the News Leader. Mosquito control biologists and technicians engage in a lot of monitoring, along with a lot of community outreach. If a resident calls to report a lot of the annoy- ing biters in a location, a technician will often advise the resident about how to reduce the insect population, and then the technician will set up a trap that uses carbon dioxide to attract mosquitoes. In-house lab technicians and biologists will count the different species of mosquitoes caught in the trap and test for viruses. At the county's mosquito control facility, lab technicians count the different species of mosquitoes and test for viruses. Sarasota News Leader August 1, 2014 Page 30