Italian towns roll out coordinated mosquito‑control campaigns

Municipalities across Italy are implementing extensive mosquito‑control operations in summer 2026. In Enna, the mayor convened the local government, the Libero Consorzio, the health service and the Pergusa race‑track authority to launch an integrated plan using larvicides and adulticides around the Pergusa lake basin, with treatments scheduled every two days and public notices on timing and safety.

The province of Oristano and the town of Torre Grande will carry out two night‑time adulticide sprayings on 14–15 July, targeting schools, parks, hospitals and residential areas while advising residents to keep windows shut and avoid contact with treated zones.

Capannori’s mayor has issued a municipal ordinance demanding residents, businesses and construction sites to eliminate standing water, cover containers and install fish in ornamental water bodies to curb mosquito breeding.

Catanzaro’s city council, through the waste‑management firm Sieco, will continue night‑time larvicidal treatments on 14 July in the city centre and on 15 July in the north, urging citizens to close doors and windows, keep pets indoors and clean drainage systems.

In Piedmont, a regional mosquito‑control campaign funded with €2.5 million, co‑financed by the city of Turin and over two hundred local administrations, focuses on monitoring, limited use of chemicals and biological treatments, especially in the Biellese forest and the rice‑field mosquito hotspots.

Pisa’s municipality contracts a specialist firm to perform at least two larvicidal interventions per quarter in every neighbourhood until the end of September, following regional directives that forbid adulticide use. Residents are reminded to remove water‑holding objects and to report stagnant sites.

Across all locations, authorities stress public cooperation, warning messages, and the use of approved products to protect health while minimizing environmental impact.