Emily Hibbard, an entomologist for Vector Disease Control International, looks into a dip cup while searching for mosquito larvae in stagnant water at Fitzgerald Lake in Northampton, Monday. She has been hired by the city’s Board of Health to perform surveillance and disease testing of mosquitoes. Traps will be set and mature mosquitoes will be tested for eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus.
Emily Hibbard, an entomologist for Vector Disease Control International, looks into a dip cup while searching for mosquito larvae in stagnant water at Fitzgerald Lake in Northampton, Monday. She has been hired by the city’s Board of Health to perform surveillance and disease testing of mosquitoes. Traps will be set and mature mosquitoes will be tested for eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus. Credit: JERREY ROBERTS