s/o: how bad are services like Mosquito Squad for the environment?

[Anonymous]

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We are still mobbed by bees and butterflies and birds (after 4 years.)

Please, don't pretend like you aren't harming bees and butterflies. Bees and butterflies are insects. Pyrethrin will kill them. They just fly farther than mosquitos so these bees and butterflies flew miles and miles and then landed in your yard and will die off shortly.

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If that's true they are procreating at an alarming rate before they die. And they are leaving their dead carcasses elsewhere.

How did you get the bees and butterflies to read the memo to not feed on your sprayed yard? I am impressed!

They do feed in my yard! How did you get them to read the memo to die somewhere else, because they are not dying in my yard?

You know for sure that not a single bee or butterfly has died in your yard? Wow, you have some mad skills to monitor each bee and butterfly that comes in your yard.

Pollinators are having a tough time, this is not in dispute. So even one is a huge loss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I live on a small lot in AU Park. My neighbors don't spray but we do (Mosquito Squad). It makes a huge difference. We can actually sit outside without being bothered by mosquitoes at all. Relax and just spray, you'll be glad you did.

Yes. The chemical kills mosquitos on contact. The insecticide has a fixing agent that allows it to adhere to everything it comes in contact with in your yard. It takes a few weeks for the insecticide to break down. So you are sitting in insecticide. It will contaminate your clothing and be absorbed through your skin.

[Anonymous]

Spray early and often.

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We are still mobbed by bees and butterflies and birds (after 4 years.)

Please, don't pretend like you aren't harming bees and butterflies. Bees and butterflies are insects. Pyrethrin will kill them. They just fly farther than mosquitos so these bees and butterflies flew miles and miles and then landed in your yard and will die off shortly.

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If that's true they are procreating at an alarming rate before they die. And they are leaving their dead carcasses elsewhere.

How did you get the bees and butterflies to read the memo to not feed on your sprayed yard? I am impressed!

They do feed in my yard! How did you get them to read the memo to die somewhere else, because they are not dying in my yard?

You know for sure that not a single bee or butterfly has died in your yard? Wow, you have some mad skills to monitor each bee and butterfly that comes in your yard.

Pollinators are having a tough time, this is not in dispute. So even one is a huge loss.

No no mosquito squad said it only kills mosquitoes. LOL

[Anonymous]

This is why God invented screened in porches. Good for the environment, good for family time together.

Beyond that, I've read a bit on Mosquito Bits--people report success putting not just in things like birdbaths but also sprinkled on soil around plants that tends to get damp. I got the sense that it is environmentally sound but am wondering if anyone knows this for a fact.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I live on a small lot in AU Park. My neighbors don't spray but we do (Mosquito Squad). It makes a huge difference. We can actually sit outside without being bothered by mosquitoes at all. Relax and just spray, you'll be glad you did.

Yes. The chemical kills mosquitos on contact. The insecticide has a fixing agent that allows it to adhere to everything it comes in contact with in your yard. It takes a few weeks for the insecticide to break down. So you are sitting in insecticide. It will contaminate your clothing and be absorbed through your skin.

Yeah - no worries when you die of cancer at age 50 Or your kids for gods sake. Why? Wearing DEET is better than that. I don't get. Wear long sleeve clothing, try to eliminate standing water, get a bat house, build a screened in porch. I find the mosquitoes are usually only bad for about two months - mid-July through August depending on the type of season we are having.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I live on a small lot in AU Park. My neighbors don't spray but we do (Mosquito Squad). It makes a huge difference. We can actually sit outside without being bothered by mosquitoes at all. Relax and just spray, you'll be glad you did.

Yes. The chemical kills mosquitos on contact. The insecticide has a fixing agent that allows it to adhere to everything it comes in contact with in your yard. It takes a few weeks for the insecticide to break down. So you are sitting in insecticide. It will contaminate your clothing and be absorbed through your skin.

Yeah - no worries when you die of cancer at age 50 Or your kids for gods sake. Why? Wearing DEET is better than that. I don't get. Wear long sleeve clothing, try to eliminate standing water, get a bat house, build a screened in porch. I find the mosquitoes are usually only bad for about two months - mid-July through August depending on the type of season we are having.

Sorry they were in my yard April to October before spraying. And no ,we do not wish to be confined to our screened porch (which we have) 6 months of the year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I live on a small lot in AU Park. My neighbors don't spray but we do (Mosquito Squad). It makes a huge difference. We can actually sit outside without being bothered by mosquitoes at all. Relax and just spray, you'll be glad you did.

Yes. The chemical kills mosquitos on contact. The insecticide has a fixing agent that allows it to adhere to everything it comes in contact with in your yard. It takes a few weeks for the insecticide to break down. So you are sitting in insecticide. It will contaminate your clothing and be absorbed through your skin.

Yeah - no worries when you die of cancer at age 50 Or your kids for gods sake. Why? Wearing DEET is better than that. I don't get. Wear long sleeve clothing, try to eliminate standing water, get a bat house, build a screened in porch. I find the mosquitoes are usually only bad for about two months - mid-July through August depending on the type of season we are having.

NP here, and I have never sprayed my yard (yet), but I wish they were only bad mid-July through August. That sounds like a dream.

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Anonymous wrote:It's about as bad as you can get for the environment. Many countries have banned Round Up, for good reason. In addition, there is a strong correlation between the diminishing bee population and "weed killers". Companies such as Mosquito Squad are under no obligation to tell you the truth (ethically, they should - but it usually does not happen).

Look around. One sees far fewer chemical trucks than in the past, for good reason. People need to educate themselves, especially in a geographic area that is supposed to be "educated".

http://www.glyphosate.news/2016-06-27-study-shows-honeybees-are-starving-because-of-roundup.html

you know mosquitos are not weeds, right?

Same principle. Or are you really that dense?

Omigod. Please don't give a bad name to people who care about the environment and also are capable of rational analysis. There is no "principle" by which you can use information about one substance to draw conclusions about the effects of an entirely different substance.

It's an equally damaging "substance" you dolt.

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Anonymous wrote:It's about as bad as you can get for the environment. Many countries have banned Round Up, for good reason. In addition, there is a strong correlation between the diminishing bee population and "weed killers". Companies such as Mosquito Squad are under no obligation to tell you the truth (ethically, they should - but it usually does not happen).

Look around. One sees far fewer chemical trucks than in the past, for good reason. People need to educate themselves, especially in a geographic area that is supposed to be "educated".

http://www.glyphosate.news/2016-06-27-study-shows-honeybees-are-starving-because-of-roundup.html

you know mosquitos are not weeds, right?

Same principle. Or are you really that dense?

Omigod. Please don't give a bad name to people who care about the environment and also are capable of rational analysis. There is no "principle" by which you can use information about one substance to draw conclusions about the effects of an entirely different substance.

Not this poster, but spraying for "mosquitos" kills indiscriminately--the good insects and the pests--just like round up does--weeds and plants. So there is some logic to this. Bees already have it hard enough and our food supply depends on them.

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PP here. Thank you. Glad people are really not as stupid as other PP. But, maybe we should let them kill themselves slowly with chemicals....Darwin at work....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no such thing as a "natural" pesticide. The mosquito sprayings kill ALL the beneficial insects:
https://www.uaex.edu/publications/PDF/ag1165.pdf

There are many scientific sources on this. Yet we don't plant native plants, we don't have proper storm water waste systems, we don't require LED building practices, we don't have green roofs or solar panels. We pave over the size of Rock Creek Park EVERY YEAR in the DMV:
https://www.citylab.com/environment/2016/03/washington-dc-development-stormwater-runoff-impervious-surfaces/475950/

And yet, we expect to have warm weather mosquito free? The tiger mosquito is invasive and very hard to kill. People have been spraying it for decades. So, OP, what do you expect to change?

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I live on a small lot in AU Park. My neighbors don't spray but we do (Mosquito Squad). It makes a huge difference. We can actually sit outside without being bothered by mosquitoes at all. Relax and just spray, you'll be glad you did.

I think Trump thinks the same thing about his golf course at Mar a lago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To piggyback on your Q has anyone gotten the "natural" version and know what's in it? It's supposed to be less effective but has only essential oils etc.

That 'natural ' stuff kills pollinators (bees) , cats and fish.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I live on a small lot in AU Park. My neighbors don't spray but we do (Mosquito Squad). It makes a huge difference. We can actually sit outside without being bothered by mosquitoes at all. Relax and just spray, you'll be glad you did.

Yes. The chemical kills mosquitos on contact. The insecticide has a fixing agent that allows it to adhere to everything it comes in contact with in your yard. It takes a few weeks for the insecticide to break down. So you are sitting in insecticide. It will contaminate your clothing and be absorbed through your skin.

Yeah - no worries when you die of cancer at age 50 Or your kids for gods sake. Why? Wearing DEET is better than that. I don't get. Wear long sleeve clothing, try to eliminate standing water, get a bat house, build a screened in porch. I find the mosquitoes are usually only bad for about two months - mid-July through August depending on the type of season we are having.

Sorry they were in my yard April to October before spraying. And no ,we do not wish to be confined to our screened porch (which we have) 6 months of the year.

Turn on an outdoor fan, people

[Anonymous]

I'm in MoCo and I have one neighbor who has kept beehives for years. The house behind theirs sold a few years ago and the new neighbors use a service to spray for mosquitos. The bees have died and been replaced twice now. The only thing we can identify is the spraying.