To: nickcarraway
When I was a kid, a truck used to come around after dark on Summer nights spraying something; we assumed it was for mosquito control. What were they spraying?
5 posted on
05/12/2022 10:21:41 AM PDT by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Jamestown1630
11 posted on
05/12/2022 10:28:29 AM PDT by
rlmorel
(Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
To: Jamestown1630
"When I was a kid, a truck used to come around after dark on Summer nights spraying something; we assumed it was for mosquito control. What were they spraying?" They were most likely spraying DDT. I think DDT is effective and, if used judiciously, is pretty safe. Tragically it was way over-used and caused problems.
12 posted on
05/12/2022 10:29:21 AM PDT by
WMarshal
(Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
To: Jamestown1630
“...What were they spraying?...”
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Probably was Malathion back then.
I think they use Deltamethrin now.
17 posted on
05/12/2022 10:44:21 AM PDT by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: Jamestown1630
DDT.
As kids in the 50s, we used to ride our Schwinn bikes behind the truck, in the fog, and suffered no ill effects.
19 posted on
05/12/2022 10:48:10 AM PDT by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Jamestown1630
To: Jamestown1630
If it was the 1950s it was DDT. And we ran behind the truck getting a nice cooling spray.
Strange. We also turned out normal when grown up.
31 posted on
05/12/2022 1:07:10 PM PDT by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
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