Winnipeg mosquitos
Which is worse...the risk of West Nile, or the chemical they spray to kill mosquito. I am not at all comfortable with the spraying of pesticides, and I hope that here in Toronto they never go that route. Anyone out there from Winnipeg? What do you think of the fogging?
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I've heard that there's a guy working on importing extra dragon flies to Winnipeg. I gather that they dine of mosquitos. I wonder if it will work.
that crap they're spraying will likely kill the dragonflies too, and the dobson flies and the stoneflies and the mayflies as well as the houseflies and all the other dyptera, and the caddisflies, and the grasshoppers and who knows what else.....
30 yrs ago, my family frequently visited a Provincial Park campground. Fogging for mosquitoes was their standard practice. Within a year the birds had disappeared and the mosquitoes were worse than ever.
They gave up the fogging after a couple of years. Within 5 yrs, the birds were back and we could sit by our campfire until midnight with minimal bug annoyance.
Let NATURE handle the problem!
I saw a newsclip depicting a young woman standing on the bed of a moving pickup truck, holding a hose, 'fogging' the side of a road. She was wearing eye protection but no respirator. We have had so much history that demonstrated so-called 'safe' chemicals to be nasty and dangerous, my first thought about that newsclip was to wonder about what ailments that woman was going to get in 5, 10, 20 years as a result of her summer job, fogging mosquitos.
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