NJ Spending Millions to Battle Pesky Mosquitoes
New Jersey will spend more than $10 million this year to battle pesky, potentially disease-carrying mosquitoes.
Each of New Jersey’s 21 counties is legally mandated to maintain a mosquito-control commission tasked with tracking and controlling the insect population as best it can. The state recently opened a new hatchery for larva-eating minnows. The state also uses environmentally approved insecticide fogs and pellets, but more than 90 percent of those pesticides only kill larvae — not flying insects.
The Department of Health said stopping the mosquitoes from breeding and blocking larvae from hatching is “a far better approach than trying to kill the adults.”
This article appeared in print on page 5 of edition of Hamodia.
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