Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 04:28:30 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Norm Saunders Subject: Insecticide question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just received a note from the powers that be in West Ocean City asking me to approve spraying on my property for mosquitos (and to include a check to help pay the costs associated with spraying). They appealed to everyone's terror quotient by talking at length about the horrors of West Nile Virus and the Indian Tiger Mosquito that spreads it (I think this was the name they used). In any event, they want to spray with Permethrin. Does anyone out there have a feel for this insecticide and how much it might affect insect populations other than mosquitos? Could it have a direct impact on birds or only indirect by affecting food sources? Best, Norm ============================ Norman C. Saunders Colesville and West Ocean City, MD marshhawk@att.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================