Using Insecticides to Control Adult Mosquitoes
The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) evaluates and registers (licenses)
pesticides to ensure that they can be used safely.
These pesticides
include products used in the mosquito control programs that states and
communities have established. To evaluate any pesticide, EPA assesses a
wide variety of tests to determine whether a pesticide has the potential
to cause adverse effects on humans, wildlife, fish and plants, including
endangered species and non-target organisms.
Officials responsible for mosquito control programs make decisions to use
pesticides based on either an evaluation of the risks to the general
public from diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, or on an evaluation of
the nuisance level that communities can tolerate from a mosquito
infestation.
This is done based on surveillance and monitoring, mosquito
control officials select specific pesticides and other control measures
that best suit local conditions in order to achieve effective control of
mosquitoes with the least impact on human health and the environment.
Based
on these criteria, our mosquito control contractor, Colorado
Mosquito Control, has determined Permethrin
to be the appropriate mosquito control product for use in Boulder
County.
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