Residents living on Ridge Street in Naples already dealt with almost two feet of water during last week's floods.
Now some are bracing for another invasion, mosquitoes.
"My legs are covered, some of these are old scars, but a lot of it is fresh, just very recent bites," said Heather Olson, who's spent the past few days bailing out her home.
She worries more mosquitoes are on the way because of the standing water.
Collier County Mosquito Control did some surveillance Tuesday, looking for areas where mosquitoes are most likely breeding, but predicting how bad they will be once they hatch isn't that simple.
Director of Collier County's Mosquito Control Patrick Linn says his team is out looking for larva which eventually turn into mosquitoes. Those larva spawn in areas with standing water.
"We do look at those areas, we have the ability to treat a lot of those ditches by truck," said Linn.
But it's difficult to predict how many of them will survive until it actually happens.
that's why they depend on you for help.
"When we get a lot of complaints that are clustered in a specific area, that actually helps us to focus our surveillance and treatment efforts," said Linn.
Heather predicts mosquito control officials will have their work cut out for them in her neighborhood.
"If the mosquitoes are already has bad as they are now, just from this little bit of rain and this previous humidity, I can't imagine it getting any better."
Mosquito Control says if you see any standing water around your home, even in the smallest places, do your best to remove it.
