Where Belgrade Sprayed for Mosquitoes This Morning
Crews worked along the Danube from 3:30 to 7 a.m., for the first time this week from the water as well. Here is the list of locations and what you can do in your yard today.
Did something get sprayed near you this morning? If you live along the Danube, it did. Gradska Cistoca, Belgrade’s public utility company for city sanitation, treated public areas for adult mosquitoes on Sunday, August 9, working from 3:30 to 7 a.m. with equipment on land and on the water.
This weekend’s spraying moved to the riverfront. That is a shift from previous days, when forests, cemeteries and sewer manholes in the central municipalities were the priority.
Which locations were on the list
The morning treatment covered the Danube riverfront and its tributaries. The list included:
- Grocanska Ada and the Danube bank from Grocka toward Vinca
- Grocka, Brestovik and Zaklopaca
- Vinca, Ritopek, Slanci and Veliko Selo
- the road to Vrcin, Vrcin, Zuce, Beli Potok, Pinosava and Avala
- Surcin, Veliki and Mali Mokri Lug, Vukov Spomenik, Zeleno Brdo, Lion, Mali Leskovac, Orlovsko Naselje, Vojvode Vlahovica and Cvetanova Cuprija
Part of the job was done from the water, by boat, because along the riverbank both larvae and adult mosquitoes cluster in vegetation that crews cannot reach from the road.
Why does the work happen right before dawn?
Because that is the only window in which the treatment actually works. Spraying requires no rain, an optimal temperature and the right wind strength, and the fogging agents are heat sensitive, so daytime heat renders them useless.
The city’s Ecology and Environmental Improvement Sector said the treatments depend on the weather: “The treatments will be carried out only if weather conditions allow it.” We covered earlier why crews go out at three in the morning, back when reports first started coming in from riverside neighborhoods.
The products used for thermal and cold fogging are registered with the Ministry of Environmental Protection and listed on the Provisional List of Biocidal Products.
What was done on previous days
This was not a one off action but the close of a week in which crews worked every day:
- from August 4 to 7, larvae and adult mosquitoes were targeted in part of the sewer network, from 5 to 7 a.m., by applying agents through manholes. That is why white smoke appeared above manholes on those days
- on Saturday, August 8, in the same 3:30 to 7 a.m. window, crews treated Bezanijski Zimovnik, Banjicka Suma, the Central Cemetery, Lake Veliko Blato and neighborhoods along both banks of the Danube
Line it up and the logic is clear: first the sewer breeding grounds, then adult mosquitoes in green areas, then the riverfront.
West Nile fever already confirmed
This summer, spraying is not just about a comfortable evening in the yard. The Batut Institute announced on August 5 that the first two laboratory confirmed cases of West Nile fever of the 2026 surveillance season had been registered.
Both patients are from the Belgrade area, aged 75 and 82, and were hospitalized at the Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases with the neuroinvasive form of the disease. The diagnosis was confirmed by the National Reference Laboratory for Arboviruses and Hemorrhagic Fevers at the Torlak Institute and by the Belgrade City Institute of Public Health.
That is why this article continues below. Treating public areas covers what belongs to the city. Your yard is on you.
Five things you can do today
- Empty every container of standing water: saucers under flowerpots, old tires, barrels and buckets. Do it once a week, not once a season
- Fit screens on windows and doors. A physical barrier works even while you sleep
- Use repellent on exposed skin when you go outside at dusk and at dawn
- Wear loose, light colored clothing with long sleeves and long pants. A mosquito bites straight through a tight shirt without trouble
- If you have a septic tank, use the prescribed products for it. If you keep bees, protect the hives ahead of any announced action
Who to contact if the mosquitoes keep biting
Report a high concentration of mosquitoes at a specific location to the City Service Center at 11-0-11, weekdays from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Reports can also be sent by email to info.centar@gradskacistoca.rs.
Our advice is to include the exact street and the time when the mosquitoes are worst, since the locations for upcoming treatments are drawn up from those reports. Gradska Cistoca said: “Control operations will continue in the coming days if weather conditions allow it.” So it is worth reporting before tomorrow’s list is finalized.
