Integrated Pest Management
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The Lemon Fair Insect Control District is a municipal district comprised of three townships (Bridport, Weybridge and Cornwall) that was established in 2006 for the purpose of mosquito abatement. The district maintains a mosquito control program in collaboration with the Vermont Agency of Agriculture. We take an integrated pest management approach, which is an ecosystem-based strategy that focuses on long-term prevention through a combination of techniques such as biological control, habitat manipulation, and modification of cultural practices. Larvicides are used only after monitoring indicates they are needed according to established guidelines, and treatments are made with the goal of removing only the target organism. Pest control materials are selected and applied in a manner that minimizes risks to human health, beneficial and nontarget organisms, and the environment. Here is our public notice of intent to treat.
For more information, leave a message at 349-5407 or email us at info@lficd.org
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NewsA recent & disturbing review of the mosquito's impact, world wide, from the New York Times: click HERE.
And... a poem from Cornwall Town Poet, Gary Margolis: Netting I have no one to blame but my wife who sits on our local mosquito control board. Her and her friends. With a map of the swamp and our low-lying lands. Having just walked in from my shady walk. Scratching myself like the dog that I am. I love to complain to my wife about everything. Welts. Red Spots. That place on my back, God didn't give me enough hands to reach. Without having to ask her to be my goddess in the middle of the night. Love's cream. Love's calamine lotion. Anything to calm me from blaming her. My queen of the Nile, asleep, in her full-bodied net. |
