Mosquito pesticides: How to Monitor Spraying Plans in Your City

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MOSQUITO PESTICIDES:

How to Monitor Spraying Plans in Your City

Compiled by Amy Moonlady Martin, a service of Moonlady News: cultural consciousness for North Texas. Get to know us by signing up for the MWF email digest at www.Moonlady.com

Ground fogging and aerial spray plans for North Texas are constantly shifting. Notifications are almost always at the last minute. Cities and counties can ground fog from trucks at any time and the latest contract with Dynamic Aviation Group allows for periodic aerial spraying in Dallas County without a mosquito emergency being declared.
Moonlady made this page with resources for you to monitor if pesticides are planned for your area. This document can always be located on our Home page or the Community, Home & Garden or Nature sections. If any information is missing, incorrect or a link has gone bad, please Contact Us.
In North Texas, county governments are the main peddlers of mosquito pesticides. Other counties usually take their lead from Dallas County. Sigh. The smaller the city, the more likely they are to default to the county opinion.

What’s in this Compilation:

Activists

Dallas County – Main Resources

  • Main Webpage
  • SPRAY MAP
  • Mosquito Hotline: 214-819-2115
  • To request that your home not be sprayed due to personal health problems with pesticides, in Dallas call 311. They don’t care about your fish or bees, so say that it’s your health at stake. They get concerned if you report respiratory distress, metallic taste in mouth, or vision problems.
Find out what Dallas County areas are to be mosquito fogged or aerial sprayed. – SPRAY MAP – The main mosquito page suggests that residents bookmark it and check regularly. In other other words, they seem to have no plans to send out notifications.

At the website you can:

  • Find an Address in Relation to Treatment
  • Search Past Treatments
  • Request Service

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Other County Mosquito Sites

Bookmark and visit often to check on ground fogging and aerial spraying plans. These sites often give toxic-chemical advice for preventing mosquitoes, so beware, and information about the effectiveness and safety of pesticides on mosquitoes is frequently not very honest.

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City Mosquito Sites

Bookmark those that apply to you and visit often to check on ground fogging and aerial spraying plans. These sites often give toxic-chemical advice for preventing mosquitoes, so beware, and information about the effectiveness and safety of pesticides on mosquitoes is frequently not very honest. Best green info at Addison and best general info is at Fort Worth. Best prevention practices include Richardson.
Many cities have e-alert systems that are only available to residents. From any of the city pages listed below, click the home page to see if your city does (sign up is usually on the front page). Phone numbers provided go to a mosquito hotline, the department in charge, or the main city line.

Information by City

Addison

Allen

Arlington

Balch Springs

Bedford

Carrollton

Cedar Hill

Colleyville

Coppell

DALLAS

Desoto

Duncanville

Euless

Farmers Branch

Flower Mound

FORT WORTH

Frisco

Garland

Grand Prairie

Grapevine

Hurst

Irving

Lancaster

Lavon

  • Prevention & General Information
  • Spraying plans: (972) 843-4220

Lewisville

McKinney

Mesquite

Plano

Richardson

Note from Bohemian Utopia I wanted to give the City of Richardson some kudos for the manner in which they have been managing the West Nile testing and treatments so far. Though they did spray our neighborhood earlier in the year – take a look at the interactive map and look at their treatments documented. “Larvacide added to pool on xxx drive”. “fish added to pool on xxx street”., etc etc, etc. They do offer an avenue for complaints about standing water, and appear to be very active on treating said issues

Rockwall

Rowlett

Sachse

Wylie

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Science Stuff

February 5, 2013 CDC study – mosquito counts had actually doubled in areas where spraying occurred in 2012

Table 5 of CDC study – Clearly shows that in all three zones mosquito numbers increased. In Zones 1 and  3, these increases were shown to be statistically significant. – Larry Boyd

Blogs and Opinion Pieces

To Protest or Not To Protest – June 23, 2013

Punishing Mosquitoes (and Humans) with an Iron Fist – August 19, 2012

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News Coverage

Dallas Observer: The Morning News Says Spraying Saved Dallas from West Nile, but That’s Not the Whole Story

Dallas Morning News: Dallas County health officials commend spraying efforts in fight against West Nile virus

Dallas Observer: Is Dallas Getting Smarter in the Fight Against West Nile? – Sept 4

Dallas Morning News: Citizens group calls for changes to Dallas’ mosquito control techniques

NBC 5: Investigates Reveals West Nile Virus Information Some Local Counties Don’t Provide

CBS DFW: Concerns Over Product Used For WNV Spraying In Dallas

Lake Highlands Today: Here comes the spray   (editor note: Aerial spraying is not planned, just truck-mounted fogging)

Dallas Observer:  West Nile Spraying Is Killing More than Just Mosquitoes, and Local Foodies Want it to Stop

CBS DFW: DFW Cities Differ On West Nile Attack Plans

Time magazine: The Plight of the Honeybee

CBS DFW: Dallas County Wants To Boost Pesticide Levels For West Nile Spraying

Dallas Morning News: Plano adds larvae-eating fish in fight against West Nile

NPR: A Warm Winter Helped Fuel West Nile Outbreak In Dallas

NBC DFW.com: West Nile Virus Under Control, Dallas Co. Health Says

City of Plano: Taking on Mosquitoes with their Natural Predators

Dallas Morning News: Dallas County’s so-called West Nile case fails to meet state’s definition – June 26, 2013

Dallas Morning News’ The Scoop blog: Mosquitoes being sprayed in Dallas County before they test positive for West Nile virus – June 19, 2013

Dallas Morning News: Dallas County not waiting for West Nile to spray for mosquitoes  – June 18, 2013

CBS news story – mid-June 2013

CultureMap – mid May 2013

 

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Amy Martin is the author of Wild Dallas-Fort Worth: Explore the Amazing Nature of North Texas (https://moonlady.com/amy-martin-selected-to-write-wild-dallas-fort-worth-explore-the-amazing-nature-of-north-texas/), to be released by Timber Press in 2022. She is the North Texas Wild columnist at GreenSourceDFW (https://greensourcedfw.org/) and author of Itchy Business: How to Treat the Poison Ivy and Poison Oak Rash (http://itchy.biz/). She was the senior comedy, magic and cirque critic for TheaterJones, The Aging Hippie columnist for Senior Voice, and the Taoist panel member of the Texas Faith blog of The Dallas Morning News. A journalist for over 40 years, she wrote for Dallas Observer, Dallas Times Herald, Dallas Morning News, Senior Voice, and D magazine, and was contributing editor and columnist for Garbage magazine. She was known by many in North Texas as the Moonlady for her alternative newservice of 15 years, Moonlady News, and served as creator/producer/promoter of the acclaimed Winter and Summer SolstiCelebrations for 20 years.

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