Same here, and with the weather forcast, it is a wonder how they think they can waste the supplies and the worker's time like this. Our tax money at work.

The stuff that the "bug man" sprays is typically a product called Anvil. It's a widely used adulticide in municipal mosquito abatement and serves to "knock down" adult mosquito populations. By design this stuff degrades quickly in sunlight, isn't mobile in water and isn't bio persistent so once it's applied it's pretty much harmless. It's not meant to have any residual effects. As long as it wasn't raining at the time of the application it's just as effective.

The knockdown treatments are typically only one part of the process. Catch basins and areas of standing water are also treated with larvicide.

No affiliation with the bug man. Just an environmental scientist with too much time on their hands.

I don't mind them spraying. The little buggers are still out there biting. I know more than one person who has gotten west nile.

Well I once knew a village manager whose public works crew sprayed for mosquitoes. He wondered whether the cost was justified so he discontinued spraying. Residents bitched up a storm about the mosquitoes so he re-instituted spraying (with water). Got tons of thank yous for the relief.

Catch basins and other standing water are one thing and I suppose spraying under the perfect weather conditions may help a bit but that's pretty hard to hit. As property owners some of us used to pith in and pay Clarke to spray our properties- they would back up the driveway, turn on the sprayer, and I would watch the mist get blown across the street to my non-paying neighbor.

It's not that I mind the service being done around here, but do they have to do it at such a late hour? That machine is soo friggin' loud that I can't believe someone hasn't complained about it waking up their children?

When I was a kid in Indiana, we use to chase the bug man on our bikes after dinner. I can only imagine how healthy that was to do. Kind of up there with doctors suggesting menthol cigarettes to those with head colds back in the day...

I think the idea behind the late hour is that it is better to wake children up inside their homes than to coat the lil' buggers with bug juice while they play outside. Of course, that's just my thinking. Maybe the spraying company only hires vampires. Who knows?

Deaf vampires apparently.

Not certain the machines would be any quieter if the sun was out.

True, but one wouldn't have to try and get a 2 year old who has been a sleep for 3 hours prior to, to settle back down and go back to sleep, instead thinking nap time was over and it's time to play again....