City begins first mosquito fogging since 2020
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Another sign of summer: the City of Winnipeg began its 2022 mosquito fogging program Sunday night.
The treatment came following a city-wide daily average of 88 mosquitoes in local traps Saturday.
“We’ve been dealing with record rainfall and precipitation since the spring, and our crews have been working hard to control the mosquitoes in the larval stage as its the most effective and environmentally friendly way of controlling the mosquito population,” said David Wade, superintendent of insect control.
“But as the summer temperatures increase, our window of opportunity to control them in the larval stage gets shorter and we had some rainfall events in the latter half of July in back-to-back weeks that resulted in not being able to control all of the larvae, so we ended up with a spike in adult mosquitoes.”
The area hit the hardest was Kildonan Park, as area traps captured 849 mosquitoes last week and 448 on Saturday alone.
“I’ve found the mosquitoes to be pretty bad this year. It seems worse because last year we didn’t have as much rain, so in comparison, this year seems 10 times worse,” Randi Herman said while walking through a local park Monday.
“Typically, if I know there’s going to be lots of bugs, I try to avoid them. Even cutting the grass has been bad. You get eaten alive.”
Kildonan Park and its surrounding area were one of those to receive treatment. Others include North Kildonan, Transcona, Dugald, Garden City, East Elmwood, Inkster and St. John’s.
Some visiting area parks Monday said they could already notice improvements.
“If they’ve sprayed, they’ve done a good job. I haven’t seen one mosquito yet,” said Jim Haughey.
The city will continue fogging for adult nuisance mosquitoes Monday, primarily in the southeast quadrant, between 9:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m.
Sunday was the first fogging done by the city since July 2020.
The City of Winnipeg encourages residents to dump or drain standing water on their properties and filling low-lying areas where water can accumulates.
bryce.hunt@freepress.mb.ca