High trap counts prompt city to start second round of fogging
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Weather conditions are keeping mosquito trap counts high, prompting the City of Winnipeg to begin a second round of fogging.
Taz Stuart, the city entomologist, said the high amount of rain in the past three weeks, warm temperatures and the current nuisance adult mosquito population, justify further fogging.
"We have successfully (fogged) the entire city," Stuart said this morning during a news conference near the duck pond in St. Vital Park. "We are starting our second treatment."
Stuart said the northern areas of Winnipeg will be fogged tonight, along with the urban areas of East St. Paul and West St. Paul.
Wednesday night, city crews began a second round of spraying in Charleswood, St. James and Brooklands.
Stuart said he will immediately begin a review of the city’s mosquito treatment program, as instructed Wednesday by Mayor Sam Katz and his Executive Policy Committee.
Stuart said his review will include looking at treatment programs now in use across North America, adding that Winnipeg remains the only large city in Canada with a nuisance mosquito treatment program.
The average number of mosquitos in traps from Wednesday was 100.
The Winnipeg Free Press would like to talk to individuals who have allowed the City of Winnipeg to place mosquito traps on their property. Please contact reporter Aldo Santin in confidence at 697-7252 or Aldo.santin@freepress.mb.ca