PUBLIC NOTICE: Unscheduled Mosquito Control Activity in Anne Arundel County

PUBLIC NOTICE: Unscheduled Mosquito Control Activity in Anne Arundel County

September 2, 2025

Spraying Planned for Evening of September 3, 2025

ANNAPOLIS, MD (September 2, 2025) – The Maryland Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Anne Arundel County Health Department, will increase mosquito management companies in areas resulting from a public well being concern over the potential for mosquito-borne ailments.

Ultra-Low Volume (ULV) truck-based spraying to manage grownup mosquitoes is deliberate for the night of Wednesday, September 3, 2025 in Annapolis close to the intersections of Tydings Road and Log Inn Road.   

Spraying will happen after 7:30 p.m. In the occasion of inclement climate, spraying can be rescheduled for the following obtainable night. Any current spray exemptions within the space can be briefly suspended. 

MDA Mosquito Control Program personnel will use a permethrin-based answer that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved to be used in public well being mosquito management packages with out posing unreasonable dangers to human well being. However, out of an abundance of warning, MDA recommends avoiding outside actions throughout spraying.

While not all mosquitoes carry ailments, MDA means that residents take precautions to attenuate their publicity to mosquito bites. These measures embrace:

• Wear lengthy, unfastened becoming, gentle coloured clothes

• Wear insect repellents based on product labels

• Avoid mosquito infested areas throughout prime intervals of exercise (between nightfall and daybreak)

• Install, examine, and restore window and door screens in houses and stables

• Regularly clear fowl baths and bowls for pet meals and water

• Remove or empty all water-holding containers 

All Marylanders are inspired to comply with MDA’s Facebook feed @MdAgDept that can put up unscheduled spray occasions and different well timed details about mosquito management in Maryland. Routine spray program schedules can be found by county on this system’s website.

For extra info, please name MDA’s Mosquito Control Program at 410-841-5870.

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