Mosquito-fogging program wraps up
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Mosquitoes rejoice — fogging is finished.
The City of Winnipeg announced Thursday it has completed the program intended to poison adult mosquitoes with malathion.
Last month, the city had to suspend fogging for nuisance mosquitoes when provincial and city officials learned about a three-year-old change in the regulations on storing malathion, used by the city to combat mosquitoes and by the province to deal with outbreaks of the West Nile virus, which is carried by mosquitoes.
The years-old change meant authorities are prohibited from using malathion that has been stored for more than one year — which applied to all inventory in Manitoba, which was purchased in 2009.
However, Health Canada approved use of the insecticide earlier this month and the fogging trucks started to roll Sunday night.
While fogging for adult mosquitoes is finished, crews will continue with larviciding and residual treatment programs.
