KVRR Local News
May 10, 2021
The fee to secure Airborne Custom Spraying of Halstad, Minnesota is $12,000.
That money would count toward the spraying cost which runs around $28,000 per application if the city council decided to go ahead and spray later in the summer.
Cass County Vector Control has provided mosquito control service to Moorhead since 2015, but this year’s renewal is having a bit of push back over concerns of aerial spraying.
Concerns remain over how the mosquito insecticide will continue to affect the area.
It comes after a mass butterfly kill-off in the FM metro caused by aerial spraying to control mosquitoes late last July.
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Fargo-Moorhead s monarch massacre starts national dialogue
Unfortunately, in one of the only clues to why so many butterflies died, the aerial spraying Aug. 26 occurred while the monarchs were migrating. 7:00 am, Feb. 19, 2021 ×
Dead monarch butterflies were found across the Fargo area after aerial spraying in August 2020 to control mosquitoes. WDAY photo
FARGO If there s one thing that has developed in the six months since what s been called the monarch massacre that followed an aerial mosquito spraying in the Fargo-Moorhead metro, it s that there s a national dialogue underway.
In the first of two informational meetings at Fargo City Hall on how the agency operates, Cass County Vector Control Director Ben Prather said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, American Mosquito Control Association and butterfly advocacy organizations are talking for the first time.