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Comment to the Collier Mosquito Control District Board Meeting [1]
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Date: 2025-05-27
The Collier Mosquito Control District (CMCD) Naples, Florida taxes our property to finance it’s activity. Speaking at the board meetings is one of the few ways that we have to influence what you do. We appreciate your letting us speak and hope you will take us seriously. Everything we say can be verified by expert documentation. You may feel that it’s the individual’s responsibility to know when and where the spraying takes place, but not everybody can know in advance. You expose people to dangerous chemicals without their knowledge or approval.
Some of you apparently think I am doing this to try to get elected to the state legislature. That may be someone’s opinion, but it’s not true. I am doing this to try to stop the spraying of insecticides. I love wildlife of all kinds. I want to see birds, butterflies, bats, bees, dragonflies, and spiders in my backyard.
On my street there are ten widows. Wouldn’t it be nice for them to have their husbands to accompany them through old age?
We want a perfect lawn and mosquito free patio regardless of the risk. Almost everyone around here has a Lanai. Is it because your practices create conditions for swarms of mosquitoes unmolested by mosquito eating dragonflies, birds, fish and bats. Under a natural balanced ecosystem there would only be a few mosquitoes.
You make people think that you are providing a mosquito and disease-free environment when, in fact, you are making both situations worse by spraying. I’m sure you may be worried about your jobs and livelihood. This is understandable, but your worry is misplaced when what you are doing fails to put the health of your friends, neighbors, even your own families, first. Eliminate the spraying equipment and take a different approach. It’s time to do the right thing.
There is about a 1% per month chance of getting Dengue while being in a high-risk location.
“The risk of becoming seriously ill and dying from West Nile is extremely minimal. Fewer than 1 percent of mosquitoes in areas where it has been found carry the virus.”
Eastern equine encephalitis virus is spread to people by the bite of an infected mosquito. Only a few cases are reported in the United States each year.
Malaria was eradicated from the United States in the mid-20th century, with Florida officially declared malaria-free in 1970 by the World Health Organization. Locally acquired malaria cases are rare and have only occurred a few times in recent decades.
Obviously, there is no real threat from mosquito borne diseases.
Thanks for listening.
Spraying in Florida.
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