Comments on: Mosquito Fogging Planned In Ensley, Gonzalez, Cantonment, Beulah

By: Biggo Mamma

Biggo Mamma — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 14:09:57 +0000

The Purple Martin Conservation association sells CDs of purple martin bird birdsong you can play on a boom box on your front porch and attract purple martins. Purple martins eat 2000 insects a day but all kinds of insects they don’t specialize in eating just mosquitoes. Also they only eat in the daylight. Bats come out at night and eat 2,000 small insects. Also mosquitoes are repelled by the smell of chickens up to 15000 feet and now you can buy “cutesy” backyard chicken coops for urban chickens that look like small kids playhouses.

By: Wake up people

Wake up people — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 03:34:24 +0000

A few mosquito diseases will not be no where near as deadly to people as killing bees which will devastate the environment killing crops and cause thousands to starve.We have to weigh out the actions we have instead of knee jerk killing everything.p.s. after the spraying the mosquitoes will still be around they are like roaches just something we have to deal with.

By: kimber1911

kimber1911 — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 18:24:13 +0000

South Carolina used aerial spraying during daylight hours when bees are active. Escambia County does not have aerial operations and only does fogging after 6 pm when bees have gone to their hive. Anyone that has honeybees can call them and they will set up a no spray zone as you see in the map.

By: bwayne

bwayne — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 17:53:40 +0000

I agree with JBS. It appears that they are not going to spray the Cottage HIll Area and down 95A. That’s rather odd since we have many water pools in that area. I remember years ago before they changed it all that the sprayers used to go down our area constantly….which helped, but would have helped more had they not sped down the road.

By: BentStraight

BentStraight — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 15:26:35 +0000

While the concern for bees MAY be warranted, you also must remember that Mosquitoes are known to carry many infectious diseases that kill like Malaria, Dengue Fever, West Nile Virus, Yellow fever, various strains of encephalitis and now Zika!

By: xpeecee

xpeecee — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 13:43:46 +0000

Honeybees gather pollen and nectar as far as 3 to 5 miles from their hives. Please do not kill the bees…

By: xpeecee

xpeecee — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 13:40:05 +0000

Please stop killing honeybees!!!!!!!

By: Talia Smith

Talia Smith — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 12:44:20 +0000

Can someone provide a link to the website where they list all of the chemicals that they spray? I can’t find it on the county website.

By: JBS

JBS — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 12:05:08 +0000

Map link 46A displays a green area for 46. Please clarify whether or not the area North of Muscogee Road will be sprayed.

By: Mickie fox

Mickie fox — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 11:51:46 +0000

South Carolina has sprayed and killed their honey bees! It that going to happen in Florida?