Overview

• Llombai and Catadau officials report millions of chinches emerging near overgrown and abandoned plots, linking the infestation to last October’s dana and June’s heavy rains.
• Torrent’s health department has activated intensive summer controls with periodic sprays, trap placements and the release of sterile male mosquitoes under a Generalitat Valenciana program.
• Albal launched an extraordinary fumigation plan last week in coordination with its municipal brigades, Centre Verd and a private pest‐control firm after initial treatments failed to curb insect incursions into residential areas.
• Cleaning orders have been issued to property owners to clear abandoned lots and standing water to disrupt breeding sites for chinches, tiger mosquitoes and other summer pests.
• While chinches feed only on plants, residents across the region report garden damage and discomfort and councils warn that further rounds of treatment may be required through the summer.