Comment on New ‘Detective Work’ on Butterfly Declines Reveals a Prime Suspect
silence7@slrpnk.net 5 months agoSome towns regularly spray insecticides to kill mosquitoes too. That tends to kill all sorts of stuff, not just the mosquitoes.
Comment on New ‘Detective Work’ on Butterfly Declines Reveals a Prime Suspect
silence7@slrpnk.net 5 months agoSome towns regularly spray insecticides to kill mosquitoes too. That tends to kill all sorts of stuff, not just the mosquitoes.
BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
I’m like 90% certain my area doesn’t do that, simply because there’s a river straight down the middle of the town, and we have a lot of conservation programs (some funded through property tax) and stuff as a result. Plus the river itself (a superfund site) has been a cleanup project for decades, so they have to be pretty careful.
But I may be wrong. Who knows. If they do spray, it certainly isn’t helping knock down the mosquitos. Or gnats. So many gnats.