Let’s just say after reading this in a city press release I decided to do a little research;
The City will be using the product Permanone for spray treatments. Products used by the City of Sioux Falls are designed to break down in the environment quickly and are used at very low concentrations. Permanone is a product approved for use by the EPA in residential areas for adult mosquito control.
Sounds harmless, right? Unless you are a small animal, get it on your skin, fish or bees or a vegetable garden or have chickens. Here’s some fun facts about this poison they are spreading throughout the city;
This pesticide is extremely toxic to fish and aquatic invertebrates. Runoff from treated areas or deposition of spray droplets into a body of water may be hazardous to fish and aquatic invertebrates. Do not apply over bodies of water (lakes, rivers, permanent streams, natural ponds, commercial fish ponds, swamps, marshes or estuaries), except when necessary to target areas where adult mosquitoes are present, and weather conditions will facilitate movement of applied material away from the water in order to minimize incidental deposition into the water body. Do not contaminate water when disposing of equipment wash waters.
This pesticide is highly toxic to bees exposed to direct treatment on blooming crops or weeds. Do not apply this product or allow drift when bees are actively visiting the treatment area, except when applications are made to prevent or control a threat to public and/or animal health determined by a state, tribal or local health or vector control agency on the basis of documented evidence of disease causing agents in vector mosquitoes, or the occurrence of mosquito-borne disease in animal or human populations, or if specifically approved by the state or tribe during a natural disaster recovery effort. Applications should be timed to provide the maximum possible interval between treatment and the next period of bee activity.
Do not use, pour, spill or store near heat or open flame.
Do not allow spray treatment to drift onto pastureland, cropland, poultry ranges or potable water supplies. Do not use on crops for food forage or pasture. In treatment of corrals, feed lots, swine lots, and zoos, cover any exposed drinking water, drinking water fountains and animal feed before application.
I guess we got our answer to what the city is using to kill skeeters, but what other harm is it causing?
There is risk associated with everything.
One can take the risk of not spraying and get west nile.
One can use deet to protect yourself, but I’m sure that chemical is not good either.
The risk of Permanone seems less than the alternatives.
It is probably better than the alternatives. And better than a zillion mosquitoes. Hopefully they are following directions.
better living through chemistry. I hope the quit this. I have plenty of off with deet. People need to be responsible and the cities and farmers need to quit killing the bees. It will not be a good outcome if we continue
Is is not a greater harm than to infect a child with West Nile? JSJ
The way I look at it, it should be your personal responsibility to protect yourself from skeeters and west nile. Are we going to start spraying people down at the beach with sun tan lotion?
I think the detriments of this product are much worse then a couple of people getting West Nile.
In the words of John McCain, ‘they’re sending us into the oven’.
Or was it Huckabee. Anyway, enough spraying. There’s few mosquitos this year. Spray when there’s a problem.
Hopefully the writer of this blog will get West Nile.
Daily, ironically Bayer who makes this product also made the gas for the gas chambers in Nazi Germany.
James, maybe you already have it, I heard it affects the brain.
The irony is we can use other products that are safer and don’t harm all the other good critters. So we can have our cake and eat it to.
I am out in the country and use MosquitoDunks in the pond and slough, minnows, and let the barn swallows best anywhere they want. In the house I have spiders (I give them names, this year they are Georgina, Henrietta and Sylvia)
I think peoe who are afraid of spiders and barn swallows “dive bombing” them are idiots. They are only after the bugs
Remember in the bible the pharaoh spoke his last pestilence to Moses and boy did he get it. It’s a responsibility of people and not ignorant local govt When the bees are done and gone will the govt stooges go around and pollinate so we have food. Gees those who wish Ill of others???
Why should only city people get protected from West Nile? Is that not discrimination? Let’s get a petition to spray the whole state!!!!!
Come on people, does the government have to do everything for you. Well and it is not the government, it is the people who pay taxes.
I do my own mosquito control with a Mosquito Magnet. Kills only mosquito and some gnats and no-see-ums. But I do release about 1/2 lb of CO2 into the air every day in the summer. A person emits 5 times that.
DL – Thanks for looking into the type of spraying done.
I wonder if the mosquito spraying is creating these zombie rabbits?
http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2015/07/30/horned-rabbits-spark-concern/30914245/