1. Humans have been controlling and managing nature for thousands of years, stopping now is ludicrous!
2. I have evidence that the SWMC has had a lot to do with the Dog Flies, and should continue. Who else has access to research and contacts to work out solutions?
3. I have seen and heard evidence of a huge dog fly problem here, and most likely is in the boxes of SWMC records I have.
4. Garlic juice was recommended by the individuals that compared the dog fly spray to Hitler's gas!
5. Dog Flies are blown in, but without controlling their population, they will increase in numbers greatly, as they were before, and worse.
Okay, where to begin....
1. Continuing to do something just because you have been doing it for thousands of years is ludicrous. We evolve. My father died two months ago from lung cancer. He refused to quit smoking because he has been a successful smoker for 55 years, why stop now? His grandfather's grandfather smoked and they didn't get lung cancer. What an insane philosophy!
We no longer use lead paint even though our mothers were all cradled to sleep in bed made of wood and painted with lead paint. We want better for our children. We don't want to risk what we now know are the dangers associated with lead. When we discovered that asbestos caused horrible cancers, we pulled it out of our schools (or covered it up). Even though our parents attended schools filled to the
Rim with Brim of asbestos. We want better for our kids. We don't want to run the risk.
Deet. I can go on for days about Deet. My grandmother had a circulation issue, but in her old age she thought those little tingles she was feeling in her legs came from fleas. So she sprayed herself with deet. She slept in it. She was never without her dang deet pump. She died of cirrhosis of the liver. She had never drank a drop of alcohol in her life. A few years later they took the concentrated deet pump off the market. She is my "box of evidence." I visit her at Black Creek cemetery.
In all of your "research" about this area. Pull up some history on Agent Orange. Eglin property near Portland was a dumping ground for the stuff. If you want proof. Go through your boxes and find the name Gordon Williams, he was with NWMC. He was also privy to the dumping of Agent Orange on Eglin. (Of course I am not saying that the NWMC had anything to do with it, just that he worked there for some time and seeing that you have a privy to files at Mosquito control, you might wanna look him up). At one point in the mid 80's I heard a statistic that Walton County had an extremely high rate of brain cancer per/capita. I didn't need to research it further. My evidence is lying beside Grandma. Her 19 year old son, raised near the Eglin reservation in Portland died of brain cancer. We no longer use agent orange because we don't want to run the risk.
2. I call BS on your "evidence". Show me facts and numbers on the amount of fireflies you see every year here compared to how many we saw as children. Yes, we are the same age (ish). When you show it to me, I will counter it with the actual number of bug species that are eradicated everyday. SPECIES not individual bugs. My step-daughter, the smarty at UF is in entomology and she says at least 5. When we start efin with the top of the food chain, we directly effect the bottom.
3. Define "Problem".
4. Garlic has never caused cancer or death...just really bad breath. I have altoids.
5. Not been bit yet and they are on their way out. I also heard that they don't have them in Sarasota. As a licensed real estate agent I will be glad to sell you something near the beach there.
We've been doing it for thousands of years, so why stop now?
