Region 8 gets carried away by mosquitoes

JONESBORO, AR - With temperatures staying in the 90s and plenty of sun shining down us, playground equipment is getting painfully hot for young children.

[guest]

Vector needs to be FIRED!! Last year I only saw them a handful of times, and when I did, it was very late at night, and they drive through the neighborhood at least 2 tiles the residential speed limit. I have not seen, or heard a mosquito truck one time this whole year.

[skeeters]

Vector is our friend. We will find you and torment you and and give you Nile fever. You are our bitch.

[justice]

Talk to epa.......they are the ones who lowered killing ingredients.........
Skeeter truck has run at least 3x`s this week here in town.

[Everseeing Eye]

Spraying the mosquitos doesn't do a lot of good when your tank is 98% water! If the mayor would break down and put a little killing agent in the spray tank, there would be a noticeable drop in mosquitos!

[ouch]

i had a nightmare last night.dreamed of Cleopatra all night.oh i must have the west nile virus.

[PurpleHeart4]

I have seen them once. I went outside before going to bed at 10pm. They need to come around closer to 7-8pm. Not after bed hours when hardly anyone is out

[smart]

Probably not a good idea to drive around spraying chemicals while children and adults are outside. It's toxic. So it's not really safe. I would think that's why they wait until later

[Skeeter]

I think Vector is trying, but this invasion of mosquitoes is beyond awful. I just get out my Raid and spray the dickens out of them in my garage and then spray our bedroom before we go to bed.

[PurpleHeart4]

smart wrote:

Probably not a good idea to drive around spraying chemicals while children and adults are outside. It's toxic. So it's not really safe. I would think that's why they wait until later

But last year they did while the kids and I were in the cove playing basketball. They drove in the cove and never quit spraying

[Qwerty]

I am in the city limits, not one time this year has the truck been by my house. Not ONCE, unless they came by after about 11:30 at night. The lights on their trucks always flash through my kitchen window when they used to go by last year.
Something needs to happen to get this problem under control more. And they need to start spraying all the city areas they are supposed to spray.

[Guest]

We once had a city council person that tried to get the farmers to treat there ground water while irrigating fields. It would have reduced Mosquitos 75% alone. But it would have cost the farmers a couple of dollars per acre to do this. This council person was ran out of Jonesboro by the farmers over this issue. It will take someone getting sick from Mosquitos before this "treatment" will finally take place.

[Old Man]

Face it folks it is that time of year!

[Guest]

Their* oops. Sorry

[Guest]

Wow that was a terrible article. The first paragraph alone gave me a headache.

[guest]

Omg we just moved here and our home town had NO mosquitoes! I have never even bought OFF. The mosquitoes are horrible here and i have only seen them spray one time in my neighborhood and they didnt even come down my street. We live right off Southwest Dr so its not like im way out in the country. We are being ate up over here. How often do they spray in this area?

[Beth]

guest wrote:

Omg we just moved here and our home town had NO mosquitoes! I have never even bought OFF. The mosquitoes are horrible here and i have only seen them spray one time in my neighborhood and they didnt even come down my street. We live right off Southwest Dr so its not like im way out in the country. We are being ate up over here. How often do they spray in this area?

We moved to Jonesboro in the middle of May. We will not be here for the next summer.

[guest]

I can take the skeeters, it's the damned idiot kids and their damned idiot parents that need to be sprayed.

[Kimberling]

I live in White County now, I am from the Jonesboro area. They are bad here, too. Even away from the fields.

[Batman]

Kimberling wrote:

I live in White County now, I am from the Jonesboro area. They are bad here, too. Even away from the fields.

BS! You dont know what bad is. Their worse than ever here.

[Kimberling]

Batman wrote:

<quoted text>BS! You dont know what bad is. Their worse than ever here.

I know that. I have family that lives there. I'm just saying they are worse than ever everywhere. Have you ever been to Griffithville, AR? You open up your car door and thousands get in with you!