The discussion got me curious enough to dig out the Environmental Protection Agency's facts on mosqito control in this modern day and age.
I'm not sure if the spray does the skeeters in, or they get bored to death reading the EPA's statement:
"5. What are some of the pesticides commonly used in mosquito control programs?
Both chemical and biological measures are employed to kill immature mosquitoes during larval stages. Larvicides target larvae in the breeding habitat before they can mature into adult mosquitoes. Larvicides include the bacterial insecticides Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis and Bacillus sphaericus, the insect growth inhibitor methoprene, and the organophosphate insecticide temephos. Certain mineral oils -- applied to form a thin film on the surface of the water -- are also used as larvicides.
To control an adult mosquito infestation, adulticides are applied either by aircraft or on the ground employing truck-mounted sprayers. State and local agencies commonly use the organophosphate insecticides malathion and naled and the synthetic pyrethroid insecticides permethrin, resmethrin, and sumithrin for adult mosquito control."
"5. What are some of the pesticides commonly used in mosquito control programs?
Both chemical and biological measures are employed to kill immature mosquitoes during larval stages. Larvicides target larvae in the breeding habitat before they can mature into adult mosquitoes. Larvicides include the bacterial insecticides Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis and Bacillus sphaericus, the insect growth inhibitor methoprene, and the organophosphate insecticide temephos. Certain mineral oils -- applied to form a thin film on the surface of the water -- are also used as larvicides.
To control an adult mosquito infestation, adulticides are applied either by aircraft or on the ground employing truck-mounted sprayers. State and local agencies commonly use the organophosphate insecticides malathion and naled and the synthetic pyrethroid insecticides permethrin, resmethrin, and sumithrin for adult mosquito control."
In that last sentence, the EPA leaves off more "g's" than Ole Pecoz!! If you're still awake, I reckon in 'real speak' that those larvacides are the equivalent of a 1st trimester abortions and the adulticides would be 1st degree murders...?
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