BATON ROUGE – The East Baton Rouge Parish Mosquito Abatement and Rodent Control will be conducting aerial spraying in the southeast portion of the parish on Wednesday night.

The spray time with be at 7:40 p.m., weather permitting, according to officials. The area sprayed with include Siegen Lane to Phillips Road.

Officials say the spraying is in response to mosquitoes continuing to emerge in standing water in the area and adjacent to Ascension Parish.

The map below shows the area where the spraying will occur: