City announces next areas to be fogged

WINNIPEG – The city will continue to fog for mosquitoes on Monday night, weather permitting.

Winnipeg started fogging for nuisance mosquitoes Sunday evening; the last time fogging for nuisance mosquitoes was done was in September 2010.

Areas the city plans to fog on Monday night are:

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As of Saturday, the average trap count around the city was 138. The highest trap count was 1,808 in the Assiniboine Park area.

The average trap count dropped to 37 on Monday morning. If it keeps going down, the city could park the trucks.

“Things are drying up,” said Taz Stuart, the city’s entomologist. “What is in the water right now is not going to be a large emergence to repopulate what we taken out so far so its looking good.”

Fogging crews will work from 9:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.  They will not fog when temperature dips below 13 C or it is too windy.

The city will accept buffer-zone requests until 3 p.m. Monday for Monday night spraying. Crews will not spray within 90 metres of a registered property.

Normally there is a 72-hour turnaround to process buffer zones. However, the city took requests in person Sunday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 1539 Waverley St.

About 200 people registered for buffer zones on Sunday, bringing the total number of properties with buffer zones to 650, the city said.

There are four different options to register your property for the “Anti-Pesticide Registrants” for the adult nuisance mosquito control program.

You can:

• Write to the Insect Control Branch at 3 Grey St., Winnipeg, MB R2L 1V2.
• Email 311 at 311@winnipeg.ca.
• Fax 311.
• Register in person at 1539 Waverley St. or 3 Grey St.

All Winnipeg neighbourhoods have been grouped into 51 Insect Management Areas. To find out which area you’re in and when you can expect your neighbourhood to be fogged, visit the city website here.

Neighbourhoods the city fogged Sunday night: