Hi, I live at my cottage for the spring/summer/fall seasons on West Waseosa Lake Road and a man from a mosquito spraying company is walking door to door this evening with clipboard in hand trying to sign up people living on the lake to have their properties sprayed for mosquitoes. He refused to listen to the facts about how harmful this practice can be to ALL insects and aquatic life, and he insisted that the ONLY things the spray kills are mosquitoes, blackflies and ticks. This is simply not true. It kills everything.
Attached is a good article about this practice.
I am really concerned if people who live on the lake start doing this. I am concerned about anyone using these products but especially if we live on the lake.
I will never, never use these products and I hope and pray that none of my neighbours do. The monarchs are already endangered and so are bumble bees. If we use these products we’re adding to the problem. We need our pollinators for our own food and for the health of the ecosystem. I’ve noticed several signs posted on South Waseosa Lake Road where properties have already had the spraying done. It is so frightening that people just don’t seem to know how harmful it can be.
Using a garlic-based spray is not as harmful but it’s not as effective either and it’s much more expensive than the synthetic spray so most people opt to use the stronger synthetic stuff, which is really bad for the environment, bad for all our pollinators and bad for the lake.
Surely, I’m not the only one who is concerned about this.
Susan Brown,
Town of Huntsville.
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Dinny McCraney says
I think we need to step back and let nature take its course. Dragonflies are having a feast on the mosquitoes in my garden and a good blob of arnica gel on the bites I do get seems to do the trick. I do my best to keep the weeds cut down to deter ticks
Years ago we all were exposed to the all powerful DDT and I can only assume that its use during all those years has a lot to do with all the cancers we are experiencing now.