Guide to Mosquito Abatement in Winter

People rarely encounter mosquitoes in winter. The main reason for this is that mosquitoes are usually inactive in winter months, retreating to abandoned buildings, sewers, leaf piles and other wind free havens to diapause (a term similar to &ldquo....

San Francisco Microclimates

San Francisco is famed for its weather. Fog and wind are celebrated, cursed – or both – in song, story and conversation. And while the City is not as wet as Portland nor as sunny as Miami, it does have a sometimes long rainy season and....

Where are They Now? Part of a series on former members of the MAC Team

Where are They Now? Part of a series on former members of the MAC Team: Michelle Hill

When new members of the Mosquito Abatement Courier (MAC) crew are assigned their first sections of San Francisco, they use maps that indicate the locatio....

The MAC Team, West Nile Virus and Mosquito Prevention

Mosquito season is officially underway in California. Mosquito populations in twenty California counties have tested positive for West Nile Virus, including San Francisco’s neighbor to the south San Mateo County according to the California D....

2013 San Francisco Mosquito Abatement Season is Underway

By Howard Williams, Veteran MAC Team Member

San Francisco’s eighth mosquito abatement season began on February 20th, 2013, over a month ahead of last year’s schedule when operations started in late March. And this earl....

Bernal Heights – The Hills of San Francisco Part II

Part I can be found here.

Bernal Heights is a prominent landmark on the eastern side of San Francisco. Rising south of the Mission District, its 433 foot peak is the second highest in the eastern part of San Francisco, exceeded only by Can....

Mosquito Abatement Season Reaches Successful Finish

By Howard Williams

As badly needed rain fell, San Francisco’s 9th mosquito abatement season ended on October 31, 2014 when Pestec’s Mosquito Abatement Courier (MAC) crew completed our duties across the City.

As in previ....

The Hills of San Francisco : Part 1 – Pestec

Before the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, before cable cars and Coit Tower, before Emperor Norton and other colorful characters, even before the first Ohlone tribes settled what is now the Mission District, there were the hills. The hills of San Fra....

Ride of Silence 2015

Written By Howard Williams of the MAC Team:

On Wednesday evening, May 20, about 70 bicyclists participated in the 3rd annual Ride of Silence, a bike ride that remembers cyclists who have been killed in traffic. The Ride of Silence is an in....

Bike to Work Day & Bike at Work Days

By Howard Williams

Thursday, May 10 was the City’s 18th Annual Bike to Work (BTW) Day organized by the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC). As mentioned in last year’s BTW Day article on mosquitosf.com, this event is both a ....

Wildlife in San Francisco: Part I – Birds

By Howard Williams

With over 800,000 people crowded onto the 47 square mile tip of a peninsula, San Francisco doesn’t have much room for wildlife. But animals not only live here, many species have adapted quite well to the urban jung....

Welcome to MosquitoSF.com Home of the Mosquito Bikers

Welcome to mosquitosf.com, the hub for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SF Water) Mosquito Abatement Courier Team (MAC Team) powered by Pestec. The SF PUC MAC Team is a group of dedicated cyclists and walkers who help reduce the risk....

Climate Change and Mosquito Control

As the year 2013 reaches its wintry close, scientific studies about global warming and other climate changes continue to warn us of the growing seriousness of the environmental crisis. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air reached another record....

Ground Scores

By Howard Williams

To those readers unfamiliar with the slang term “ground score”, Urban Dictionary’s most comprehensive definition (there are 9 in all) states: Verb – finding something of value on the ground. Noun ....

Mosquito Abatement Rides

On the day before and the day after San Francisco’s 20th Anniversary Celebration of Critical Mass, two of Pestec’s Mosquito Abatement Couriers (MAC) conducted and assisted two educational rides in the City’s Mission District.

San Francisco Mosquito Biker Hunting Season is Over

By Howard Williams, Veteran MAC Team Member

On the afternoon of October 31, Pestec’s Mosquito Abatement Couriers (MAC) rode our bicycles into the company’s Bayview District headquarters to conclude our eighth season of service ....

San Francisco Mosquito Bikers Featured on SF Gate!

The San Francisco Mosquito Abatement season has been underway for the past month. Pestec’s Bikers have been hard at work keeping the City’s mosquitoes under control. Recently, an SF ....

The Mosquito Bikers and Timbuk2

Timbuk2 has a nice post on their blog today on the SF MAC Team’s use of the Timbuk2 Pork Chop Belt Pack. [Read Post]. Since they mentioned it, we decided we should share how we came to use the bag.

For the past few years the Mosquito....

MAC Team Article on Atlantic Cities

Yesterday Atlantic Cities ran an article on a local San Francisco artist who made a mural using the paint dots the MAC Team uses during our inspections.

“The SFMAC dots are one of those little pieces of infra

structural foren....