Why do mosquito control helicopters fly around but not spray?
Helicopters perform surveillance, larviciding, transportation and adulticiding tasks for mosquito programs. These tasks may include: • Checking areas (including breeding sites) for flooding and future breeding potential, • Checking known breeding sites for adult and larval mosquitoes, • Checking aquatic weed control measures, • Applying liquid larvicides to breeding sites (this application would not make a fog), • Applying granular larvicides to breeding sites, • Transporting technicians into inaccessible breeding sites to enable them to treat the mosquito breeding with hand sprayers.
