re: Mosquitos in BR are at insane levels

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Well if you own your property out here you are taxed for mosquito control, however they only spray down your street or in your yard if you make a request. You must call everytime you want them to spray, there is no how can y’all spray once a month etc, etc.

Probably why they have like a 3 million surplus and were buying helicopters with it. Anyway maybe they could reallocate some of that money to improve drainage to help the situation or just regularly spray.

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Unfortunately, constant fogging/spraying is a problem longterm. It turns into an endless cycle because it pretty much poisons and kills indiscriminately. Along with the mosquitoes it will kill many beneficial insects, including those that are natural predators of mosquitoes at all life stages. The bigger downside to fogging/spraying is that mosquitoes become more resistant to the chemicals in constant use when many of those beneficial insects don't. So, as time goes on the fogging works less and less, but the beneficials continue to be killed off. So, you're left with fogging being the only viable option, at least until native populations of beneficial predatory insects can rebound.

That problem snowballs within the food web, too. You remove the mosquitoes and the beneficials, thus limiting the available food sources for bird populations in a given area. The birds leave in search of a better food source, and another check to the mosquitoes (and their larvae) is gone.

You're right, managing the drainage issue is paramount. That removes viable, non-natural breeding grounds for the mosquitoes. But, on a personal level we can have an impact on mosquito control, too. Get out of the mindset of needing the traditional manicured lawn packed full of non-native plant species from the grass to the flowers and trees. Reintroduce native plant species that encourage beneficial, native insects to hang around our yards and neighborhoods, which will elevate the bird population. Then, we are much closer to finding a natural balance and greatly curtailing the massive amounts of chemicals we dump into the ground and water supply.