Mosquito Truck Spraying Set For Thursday

Press release from the City of Batavia:

Posted on: August 12, 2020

Clarke Mosquito will be performing an adult mosquito spraying on Thursday evening (weather permitting). The city does not randomly spray for mosquitoes; for more than a decade it has utilized a scientific approach to limit the number of truck sprayings.

Residents can receive notification by text or email in advance of adultcide aerial spraying by going to the Clarke Portal and following the prompts. Clarke and the City of Batavia engage in several other efforts behind the scenes to control mosquitoes. This includes maintaining a network of mosquito traps that enable counting and the ability to obtain samples for testing. Clarke also has crews that perform treatments to areas of standing water throughout town and utilize backpack sprayers for targeted control.

All these efforts contribute to the overall goal of protecting public health while at the same time being fiscally responsible to the citizens.

This press release was produced by the City of Batavia. The views expressed here are the author’s own.