This week is National Mosquito Control Awareness Week.
Do you pay to have your property sprayed for mosquitoes? Do you think it helps?
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We're actually going to have someone here in 2 hours to have just that done. After dealing with how bad they've been here this year, I think it does. Last year we sprayed before moving in and didn't really have any problems.
I live in the "city". We are supposed to get spray. But, it's like the street sweepers in the fall when the leaves are really coming down.
Good luck with that.
I like to work outside in the late afternoon and evening, but it's impossible because of the mosquitoes.
Our taxpayer dollars, not at work.
We pay for our property to be sprayed through our home owners assosation. But there is a problem when the person comes to check and see if they need to spray they stand at the end of the road and see if they get bit up. The problem is that I can stand at the other end get ate up and they never spray. Do I think it works, well only if they spray! Good luck on getting them to spray, my yard is full of those pesky bugs.
Ali in Salisbury
My association pays for spraying too, and it does help a lot, especially with storm water management ponds. The ponds are mosquito farms if left untreated.
I organized my rural area and I know it works. they come around periodically. It depends on weather conditions such as wind speed, rain etc.. The only problem I have expressed is the consistency. That depends on the driver situation since it appears over the years I have been involved it is hard for them to keep drivers for the entire season. The Agency has very good people working for them. They try to work with me and I work with them very well. I encourage people to enter the program. The more people involved the better the coverage. I tell them they need a good rational person representing them.
I just use a ThermaCell. It cost me $20 at Bass Pro Shop. Works great.
I live in Tyaskin, and pay to have my yard sprayed. It works most of the time. Not 100%, but it does help. Our sprayer comes down our driveway, around our house, and back up the drive. There is a fog for like 15 minutes. It does work.
Countrygirl
I payed the county (Wicomico) one year to do it. He said they'd pull in the driveway and go around the house. I caught him one Saturday riding by the house on the street with the nozzle pointed toward my yard, then he pulled in my neighbor's yard and went around his house. I walked over and confronted the driver and he said that that was their policy from now on, no riding in peoples yards, just spray from the street and that he was "just doing the neighbor a favor this one time". I have refused to pay ever since.
No one sprays out yard - we are not going to pay either. We do preventative maint.
I don't do it, all my neighbors do.
I've never had a problem. I just hope they contine to spray , maybe that's why I don't have a problem. DAAA!!!
National mosquitoe control week?
Are we nuts? We got a week dedicated to crap like that!!
I have people on the route I am the contact person for like anonymous. They are what I call pathetic people. They are to cheap to pay $14.00, this year, for the whole season. Myself andthe other neighbors think of them as moochers. They are along way from not being able to afford a measly $14.00 a year. We don't say anything if someone is having a hard time, because that could be any of us. Good neighbors should be willing to pay their share and not mooch all the time.
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