The Lighthouse, so named because it's where I tinker with liquid fueled lamps and lanterns, is close enough to the city that the vector control truck drives through the neighborhood occasionally and sprays for mosquitoes. The stuff they use is so effective that I've been able to sit outside with bare feet and have not seen a single mosquito. My lamps usually attract flying insects. Not the last three days. I'm enjoying the respite from the bites, but I'm wondering what kind of nasty stuff they're spraying. First day I still heard crickets, but tonight I hear none. I think I need to call and ask what they're spraying and and how often they do it.
I remember as a kid, the mosquito fogger trucks driving slowly through the neighborhoods. The fog had an oddly attractive smell. In the 1960s and 1970s my Mom worked at the Health Department as the radio dispatcher for the fogger trucks and other Health Dept. vehicles.
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a couple of years ago they used an airtractor and sprayed for mosquitoes at night. that summer we had no mosquitoes, bees, flies, yellow jackets, frogs, bats. they killed everything
