We have got to START SPRAYING AGAIN for mosquitos and ticks.
I remember in my youth, seeing county trucks ‘fogging’ the vegetation along the roads. Who knows what type of poison they were using, but I’d bet the practice has stopped.
Fast forward to today, and many don’t know it, but the EPA continues to create new regulations from the 1973 Clean Water Act. The latest incarnation of rules includes ‘stormwater quality’, which actually encourages/requires shopping centers, office parks, and residential developments to have a swamp somewhere on the property...to ‘clean’ the water. This is contrary to 150 years worth of practice, in which we tried to get water away from these places as fast as possible. Bring on the mosquitos, I guess.