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Hi, I live at my cottage for the spring\/summer\/fall seasons on West Waseosa Lake Road and a man from a mosquito spraying company is walking door to door this evening with clipboard in hand trying to sign up people living on the lake to have their properties sprayed for mosquitoes.\u00a0 He refused to listen to the facts about how harmful this practice can be to ALL insects and aquatic life, and he insisted that the ONLY things the spray kills are mosquitoes, blackflies and ticks. This is simply not true. It kills everything. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attached is a good article about this practice<\/span>.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am really concerned if people who live on the lake start doing this.\u00a0 I am concerned about anyone using these products but especially if we live on the lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will never, never use these products and I hope and pray that none of my neighbours do. The monarchs are already endangered and so are bumble bees.\u00a0 If we use these products we\u2019re adding to the problem. We need our pollinators for our own food and for the health of the ecosystem.\u00a0 I\u2019ve noticed several signs posted on South Waseosa Lake Road where properties have already had the spraying done. It is so frightening that people just don\u2019t seem to know how harmful it can be.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using a garlic-based spray is not as harmful but it\u2019s not as effective either and it\u2019s much more expensive than the synthetic spray so most people opt to use the stronger synthetic stuff, which is really bad for the environment, bad for all our pollinators and bad for the lake.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Surely, I\u2019m not the only one who is concerned about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan Brown,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Town of Huntsville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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