AERIAL SPRAYING FOR MOSQUITOES ON MONDAY
7-19-12
According to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Madison County will be receiving an aerial spray for mosquitoes on Monday, July 23rd. The spray will occur from dusk to the early hours of Tuesday morning. Attached is a map showing the spray zone. The areas receiving the aerial spraying will be Greenville, Lee, Cherry Lake and Pinetta. If you know anyone who lives in the affected zone, please let them know about the aerial spray. The City of Madison will be treated with a ground spray sometime next week.
The insecticide that will be used is called NALED or DIBROM and should not casue any health problems in humans, pets or livestock. If you live in an area scheduled to be treated and are concerned about the safety of your family or pets, please plans to stay indoors from the hours of 7:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.
If you have any questions about this insecticide, you may call the Bureau of Pest Control at 850-921-4177 or if you experience any health problems you should contact the Florida Poison Control Information Network at 1-800-222-1222. Again, this mosquito spray is safe and should not be harmful to humans or pets.
For questions or concerns regarding the aerial spray, please contact Jamie Willoughby at the Madison County Mosquito Control Office at 850-973-6495 or mcac@shareinet.net.
Garvin…you could, of course, emmigrate to Africa where Bill Gates is busy spending the fortune he made in Amerca wiping out mosquitoes in Africa so the natives don’t come down with malaria.
I don’t know what he is going to do with them after he saves them since they will then need housing, food and prenatal care for the flood of new births that will occur. I would guess that President Obama will put a tax surcharge on all taxpaying Americans so that these impoverished people can qualify for EBDB cards and SSI. Mosquitoes are not the problem, and if they were gone, we would probably follow them shortly. Personally, I would rather have seen Bill build a fence on the border which would have effectively wiped out his 50billion dollar fortune, but hey, that’s just me. It is his money to squander as he chooses.
Mosquitoes carry illness. Kill them. It’s as simple as that.
Mosquitoes will thrive we jus need to adjust and lead by example
sorry, meant to add this quote.
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.”
— Wendell Berry
@Frank,
Catabolic collapse is underway. Peak oil occurred in 2005. The USA is using about 3 million barrels of oil a day less than we were in 2005. China and India are the primary recipients of our loss. Their economies continue to grow, but at a declining rate. Very soon programs such as spraying for mosquitoes will be unthinkable.
Time to plant your gardens and learn how to be self sufficient. Also, we must make available land to those who have no access to productive land to grow a garden and raise chickens or rabbits. Folks do not die from starvation peacefully.
In conclusion, Spraying for mosquitoes is the least of our problems. Those who advocate it are not paying attention!
Peasant….you are preaching to the choir here. I’m confident that the world would rock on and thrive without people – but not without mosquitoes. You change one thing, you change everything. And, of course, the reason there were few mosquitoes last year was because it hadn’t rained in two years. Granted that they are aggravating little buggers, not like I try and bait them up to come in the house for supper – still, without them….move up the food chaing one notch and think about no amphibians. Heck, nobody will worry until the power grid fails and their air conditioning goes out. By then Israel will have attacked and wiped out Iran and the whole place will be in such chaos that it will matter naught. Kill all the mosquitoes, wipe out Iran and then see what kind of downward spiral we get on! I say stop the spraying.
@Frank,
Mosquitoes are the very foundation of the food chain for many extremely valuable creatures. Spraying poison into the air is insanity.
Fortunately, we will not be able to afford these expensive control programs much further into the future. Our ancestors evolved along with mosquitoes and its amazing they learned how to cope. But we of the current generation would utterly destroy the earth for our comfort and convenience when a little personal mosquito control is all that’s needed.
Just a few short weeks ago we were in despair about the lack of rain. Mother rain blessed us and all her creatures benefited. The peasant will take the rains and mosquitoes any day over drought and the death and destruction it causes. Nature has its rhythms. Learn them and they will teach you how to cope.
Aldo Leopold says it best.
“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, “What good is it?” If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.”
I wish some body would tell me where the Madison County Mosquito Control Office is. I can’t seem to locate it.
Spraying for mosquitoes is expensive, ineffective and more than just a little environmentally damaging. The skeeters will go away in a short period of time. Spraying for them also kills any number of other critters. Dragonflys – that used to be plentiful. Bee’s, that are already having a hard time. Baby frogs. Butterflys. Fish fry eat mosquito larvae. Bats feast on them. I like the caveat in the story. Totally safe, no harm, no foul, anything to improve the creature comforts. But, if anything does go amiss, contact poison control. I think a lot of these folks should contact their county commissioner and complain that they have not yet received the soft, silk pillow they need to sit on.
Yes! I live near Cherry Lake and we can not go outside without being lifted off the ground by the mosquitos. It’s awful. Our dogs are miserable when they go outside. Fortunately, they are inside dogs but they and we all have to go outside at some point in each day. This is only my second summer here but last year we did not have this problem!
I hope the ground spray for Madison will come down 53 towards I-10. We put a bug zapper out and it does not take long for it to fill up. We keep it plugged up day and night because they are so bad.