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Mosquito Spraying In Wayland Starting Two Days Sooner
A helicopter will now fly over wetlands in Wayland as soon as Thursday, according to town officials.
WAYLAND, MA — A visit by a helicopter spraying to kill mosquito larvae has been moved up by two days.
The East Middlesex Mosquito Control Project will attempt to reduce the pest population in Wayland soon. Helicopters will deploy the biological larvicide Bti in wetland areas one time between April 20 and April 28 — originally scheduled for April 22 to 28. The pesticide kills mosquito larvae before they hatch in late spring.
The April spraying will focus on Pod Meadow west of Route 126 and the wetlands near Claypit Hill Road, Plain Road, Forty Acre Drive and Glezen Lane near Concord Road.
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"The Bti will be applied in a granular formulation by a helicopter flying low directly over the wetlands. Residents do not need to take any special precautions for this application," the mosquito control project said in a bulletin.
Bti, or Bacillus thuringiensis serotype israelensis, is a toxin that's specifically deadly to the larvaie of fly species including mosquitoes, fungus gnats and blackflies. As the control project noted, Bti is distributed in pellet form, not aerosol like the summer sprayings delivered by truck.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the number of sprayings. There will only be one, not two.
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