The Metropolitan Mosquito Control District (MMCD) provides a variety of services to 2.7 million people living in an area covering 2,900 square miles in the seven county Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota metropolitan area.

Public education regarding all aspects of District programs, with emphasis on ways to reduce risk of mosquito and tick-borne diseases. We survey for and control... mosquitoes that transmit human diseases, monitor deer tick populations and provide public education regarding Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. We also survey for and control nuisance causing mosquitoes, biting gnats, and mosquitoes that transmit dog heartworm.