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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 330136" data-attributes="member: 314"><p>Pound Sand Bfishn!!  I spent 13 years making mosquito, black fly, and biting midge surveillance counts before and after aerial insecticide applications of several different insecticides used for mosquito control and the counts of all populations plummeted.  Many of these applications were done in Minot and Williston ND.  They may not have been permanent drops in populations, but it was over 95% reductions in the counts for at least 7 days.  I've used mosquito dunks in Afghanistan treating isolated ponds or wells which dropped adult counts of both mosquitos and sand flies to less than 7% of pre treatment levels.  I've seen significant drops in adult emergence counts of mosquitos and other biting flies when using the insect growth regulators METHOPRENE and DIMILIN in Afghanistan and several South American countries in both urban and rural settings.  I've used Methoprene on my own place to manage mosquito numbers and have noticed a marked reduction in biting midges and other biting flies (horse, deer, and stable flies) that use similar breeding habitats.  Just because nobody has tried to use these products in the pasture lands of ND to control these midges doesn't mean that it won't be effective enough to mitigate an EHD outbreak.  It may not be necessary to eliminate all the midges.  It may only be necessary to knock their populations down to a level where EHD transmission is interrupted or significantly reduced.  I've seen these products work and they work well in certain situations.  EHD seems to cause deer mortality during dry conditions.  Why is it so hard to take a look at using some of these products in the isolated water holes in ND that force deer into contact with the midge when dry conditions occur?  I'm NOT an expert, but I have significantly more knowledge and experience with controlling insects than most.  However, I'm retired and have no interest in doing someone else's job for them.  Maybe you could lend them your intuition??</p></blockquote><p></p>

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