I live in an area of lakes, ponds and swamps in Minnesota. Every late spring a mosquito control helicopter flies around misting the pond across the street and the swamp behind our house. It’s our state ‘bird’ here and they do take steps to control them.
Interesting. One of my first introductions to these induced swamps was doing a site for a retail building in Moose Lake, MN. The city required a ‘rain garden’ be part of the plan, and the state DOT had volumes of plans and specifications for rain gardens...which I thought was very odd, considering Minnesota’s reputation for lakes...but somewhat expected given the strangely liberal (Hubert Humphrey etc) slant of Minnesota.
So to hear that they are spraying for mosquitos still is quite surprising.
I grew up in the deep south, and thought we had a lot of mosquitos...but one year we took a month long camping trip through Michigan and into Canada, and back down through Minnesota. I learned real quick that mosquitos thrive up north...but I would have to say, during that particular summer, Michigan had Minnesota beat in the Mosquito misery index. It was awful.