Bon. City officials are training their employees to prevent tiger mosquitoes

Agents of the technical service, the municipal police or even the city planning department, about twenty civil servants from the city of Beaune, appeared before the Eschalier school group on the morning of Tuesday, April 16th. They are all here for the same reason: the tiger mosquito. The new territorial scourge has been spreading in the Beaune region for several years now, and the municipality has decided to train its staff to detect larval breeding sites and potential areas for the spread of insects whose bites are particularly aggressive.

To welcome the city’s employees, Stéphanie Bersihand, an employee of the EID (interministerial agreement against mosquitoes) of Rhône-Alpes, stands in front of the establishment’s gates with a road map in her hand. “We offer support to certain municipalities or communities that request it to implement an action plan,” explains the latter. “All over France…