Hell on wings. Screengrabbed from Wikipedia. |
But in this case, folks would be better off if they could simply side-step the whole issue. All the aerial and ground-based spraying in the world isn't going to get us where we need to be, from a quality-of-life perspective. Our public mosquito control methods may improve the situation somewhat, but they don't make the problem go away. Not even close.
Let me emphasize this point in a very practical way. Do you know what this is??
It's a photo of the sun rising over my suburban neighborhood yesterday morning (Saturday April 13, 2013). |
- The weather is extraordinary. Low humidity and highs in the 70's. It doesn't get any better than this. Ever.
- We have not yet had our first mosquito outbreak of the spring season, in part because we've been in yet another drought phase.
- A few days ago, the League City area got about 2 inches of rain. This was our first significant rainfall since December 2012. What this means is that we are probably about T minus one week away from our first major mosquito swarm. I saw the sun come up and spent about ten hours outdoors yesterday because there's an excellent chance that a repeat performance will not be possible for me next weekend due to the mosquitoes that will come.
Ask them, "Did you do anything with yourselves in the month of March 2013, bubbas?? Because there wasn't a single friggin' mosquito on the wing during the entire month. And we had no bad weather, either." Screengrab of historical treatment schedule from Galveston County Mosquito Control. |
Happy Sunday. It looks like it's largely going to be a repeat of yesterday's splendor, weather-wise. Enjoy the hell out of it while you still can.
I ain't lyin'. Here's a screengrab of Galveston County Mosquito Control's current treatment schedule. As in, there still isn't one. |
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