![Mosquitoes feed on sugar water in Mark Brown's endocrinology lab on UGA's Athens campus.](https://secure.caes.uga.edu/news/multimedia/images/394/mosquitocloseupLR.jpg)
Heartworms: deadly, expensive
County and city officials in the Southeast spend millions of dollars each year to combat mosquitoes. But those costs are only a fraction of what Southeastern families spend to keep their furry family members safe from mosquito-born parasites.