Mosquitoes bothering
you?
Try garlic! Strong
garlic! The kind that will ruin your romance life for days.
Well, not really.
It’s actually sprayed in the environment.
“The
District of Taylor, just south of Fort St. John, in Northeastern
British Columbia is using a garlic spray to fight mosquitoes and
Mayor Rob Fraser says it's working,” reports Canadian Press.
He
says ball diamonds have now been misted with the 99 per cent garlic
spray and a second application is planned.
Taylor
councillors have been assured the spray can kill mosquito larvae
while leftover sulphers, undetectable by humans, can deter adult
mosquitoes for weeks.
Floods
and heavy rains delayed the experiment but Fraser says Taylor
residents are generally pleased and some have even bought the product
and sprayed it themselves.
He
says if the second application goes as well, council will have to
decide on a budget to expand the project in 2017.
"The
next phase (would) also have a look at the equipment. Right now,
we're just spraying it with backpacks, so it is very labour
intensive," he says.
Leduc,
Alta., and Huntsville, Ont., have also used the environmentally
friendly garlic solution to eradicate mosquitoes.
