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How do you control mosquitos?

What is Source Reduction?

What is Larvaciding?

What is Adulticiding?

What is "ULV" Spraying?

What is a Barrier Spray?

What are Biological Methods of Mosquito Control?

When do the ULV Spray trucks come out?

Why not spray during the daytime?

Does the effect last?

Why not spray individual homes?

Why didn't you respond immediately to my request?

Why doesn't it work every time?

Why did you miss our street?
- You may live near the border of one of our spray zones and the truck was actually treating an adjacent zone;
- The driver simply missed your street. Although we train our drivers, even ones with great experience can miss a street while driving at night;
- If you live in a gated community, the gate codes may have been changed recently, and we were not informed. Please make sure that our office is aware of any gate code changes;
- Our spray trucks now are much quieter than in the past. If you commonly keep your windows closed, you may not even notice when the truck comes by;
- Did we ever spray your street? In neighborhoods with closely-spaced roads, we may only treat the north-south or east-west streets because the spray drift is sufficient to cover the entire block;
- Do you live on a new street? New housing developments are being added continuously. The street simply may not yet have been added to our route;
- Do you live on an unmaintained dirt road? Especially after a hard rain, some dirt roads in the county can become so muddy, rutted or flooded that our drivers elect to skip them rather than risk becoming stuck or damaging the truck. We will resume spraying when conditions improve.

Do you spray with aircraft?

How do you Larvicide with the helicopter?

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