Went for a walk to cemetery, through and back.. all through an area that the city says was successfully fogged.
Good news is it looks pretty conclusive to me that it worked in addressing mosquito population over the area I was through. The most I saw on the whole walk were a few that had already been caught in a spider web.
Does look also obvious that there’s a tradeoff as far as impact on other bugs that it got to.
Without having to look too hard, came across these that in areas in plain view (on or beside sidewalk/path) without going as far as looking through grass…
-4 ladybugs
-a monarch butterfly, another butterfly and a couple months
-couple flies and one I think hoverfly
-a couple spiders
-assortment of aphids and smaller flying bugs
In most cases the bug seemed to still be squirming a bit with legs and it was enough that these weren’t just natural end of life cycle.
Did still see lots of dragonflies and a bee out doing their thing, a moth and ants seemed to be very busy trying to haul away bugs five times their size.
Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t covered sidewalks and crunch, crunch, crunch with every step you take…. and mosquitos were so bad over the last week that something had to be done... but it was enough to show that there is a tradeoff in fogging.