AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Amarillo has received 17 inches of rain this year, which puts the city on pace to shatter its yearly average of 20 inches.

This abnormal amount of rainfall is a benefit to insects like mosquitoes, as standing water gives them a greater chance to breed and populate the community.

Amarillo’s Environmental Health Department has been hard at work trying to stop the spread of these pesky creatures.

“We are doing something daily to help reduce the mosquito. If it’s larvicide, adulticide, checking our traps. Our traps catch a huge amount of the mosquitoes as well, and then we take them back and look for antibodies that are associated with West Nile,” said Deputy Director Zac Badrow.

Badrow says he expects an active mosquito population for at least the next two to thr

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