1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,120 Okay, 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:15,040 » good evening. I think we'll get started. >> Uh, welcome to the Ask the Expert panel 3 00:00:12,719 --> 00:00:20,960 from Milton Township. My name is Jackie McGrath. I'm a Milton Township trustee. 4 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:24,240 I'm going to introduce the speakers and um some other folks and then I want to 5 00:00:23,119 --> 00:00:28,000 make sure everybody knows what the format is. Um there's a lot of 6 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:33,280 information tonight. There's some interactive options. There's some really 7 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:37,440 good maps and some handouts. Um, and then what I um also want to add is if 8 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:41,040 you didn't um grab it when you came in, there's a piece of paper. If you do have 9 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:45,200 a question or concern, we're asking for that to be written out and then you're 10 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:49,120 going to pass it to me as the moderator. So, my name is Jackie McGrath. I'm the 11 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:53,520 moderator. I'm an elected official for Milton Township. Um, I want to introduce 12 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:59,440 Supervisor Higgins Beard who's the supervisor for Milton Township. Um we've 13 00:00:56,399 --> 00:01:06,000 got our speakers here and um I think maybe um what we'll do is we will start 14 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:10,560 with some biographies and then uh go into the the information from the 15 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:16,159 presenters and um there should be some time at the end to take some of these 16 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:22,960 questions um or uh concerns and I want to add that you know um townships do a 17 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:27,920 lot of things for a lot of people and uh one of the things that's sort of unique 18 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:33,840 is Milton Township also governs mosquito abatement. So what that means is I as a 19 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:39,920 trustee govern how the levy is set, what the budget is. Um but when it comes to 20 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:44,479 the science and the public policy, that's why we really have our experts 21 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:50,960 here tonight to delve into all the layers that are involved. Um so let me 22 00:01:46,799 --> 00:01:56,880 um say that uh I want to make sure um we are um uh informational. The whole goal 23 00:01:54,640 --> 00:02:02,240 of this panel is to be informational and educational and that's really where the 24 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:07,439 expertise comes in. Right. So, um let me introduce uh first uh we have here on 25 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:11,840 the far end um Jack Fenish who is um with Clark um and I don't think is this 26 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:15,520 being recorded? Oh, this is being recorded. Okay. So, I that's the other 27 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:19,360 thing I should add. So, um here in Milton Township everything is public. 28 00:02:16,959 --> 00:02:23,200 It's public information and so this event is actually being recorded. What's 29 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:27,440 really good about that is it'll also be content for down the road for the Milton 30 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:30,720 Township website because then when people do have questions or they want 31 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:35,840 this information later, it'll be preserved. And so um this is um uh some 32 00:02:34,319 --> 00:02:37,840 when you I think the camera's there. >> The camera looks this way. You don't see 33 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:42,080 the slides. >> So some of you it'll be the back of your 34 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:47,280 head. It's really for the front stuff. All right. So um Jack Fenish is with 35 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:53,040 Clark and let me tell you about his background. Um he's a bachelor's degree 36 00:02:48,959 --> 00:02:58,239 from the University of Detroit and um he has a short course in vectorbor disease 37 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:04,640 transmission from the University of South Carolina. It's called the CDC DOD 38 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:11,280 short course. He's also a certified Illinois firefighter too and an EMT. 39 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:16,800 And he started in mosquito control during summers while attending college 40 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:21,760 with the Northwest Cook County. He's been with Clark since 1991, 41 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:26,239 serving Northern Illinois, working with health departments, municipalities, and 42 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:32,319 townships, and has been involved in every major vectorbor disease outbreak 43 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:36,560 in Illinois since that time. Jack has helped form legislation on mosquito 44 00:03:34,239 --> 00:03:41,040 control issues as well as being instrumental in the formation of the 45 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:46,159 Milton Township Mosquito Abatement District. What year that started, I'm 46 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:51,519 not sure I know off the top of my head. 2019 if I got that right 47 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:56,480 » prior to Chris Haid. >> Yeah. So 2000 or something. 48 00:03:54,319 --> 00:04:00,640 » Some history but the >> maybe before that. 49 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:05,840 » Okay. >> So we're saying two different things. It 50 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:07,280 was formed in 2000 and then redistricted in 2019. 51 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:08,720 » Correct. >> Okay. 52 00:04:07,519 --> 00:04:10,400 » Correct. >> Thank you. Two. 53 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:15,760 » That's okay. >> Two separate occurrences. 54 00:04:12,239 --> 00:04:20,720 » Yep. Our second expert panelist is Laura McGawan. Laura McGawan has worked as 55 00:04:18,239 --> 00:04:26,080 court spokesperson since West Nile first arrived in the United States in 1999. 56 00:04:23,919 --> 00:04:31,199 She's been involved in providing public information on the front lines of every 57 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:35,520 major mosquito outbreak since that time, including on-site work in Dallas, 58 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:40,479 Houston, Orange County, California, Boston, Michigan, and Miami. Working 59 00:04:38,479 --> 00:04:45,199 with local, state and national health organizations, she shared critical 60 00:04:42,479 --> 00:04:50,880 information on mitigating mosquito-born diseases like Westnile virus, Zika virus 61 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:56,960 and eastern ecquin and sephilitis with news media around the world. 62 00:04:53,759 --> 00:05:02,400 So the format tonight is primarily a presentation a lot of information I I 63 00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:07,440 would say soup to nuts really right. So, sort of every phase of information and 64 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:12,160 then um what we do want to ask is that you um put any questions or concerns 65 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:16,240 here on this form and that's going to make its way to me as the moderator and 66 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:20,639 so we'll cover some questions and then if there are audience questions we'll be 67 00:05:17,919 --> 00:05:24,160 able to ask that tonight. But if what I worry about is running out of time 68 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:28,479 because there is a lot of content. So do include your name, phone number, email, 69 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:33,120 contact so that people can follow up if you have questions or concerns. And 70 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:37,280 there is one question there um that is of interest I think to everybody in the 71 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:42,639 township. Are there other township topics you'd like to know about? This is 72 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:46,960 actually maybe sort of a firstofits-kind event to try to do a public information 73 00:05:45,199 --> 00:05:50,720 session about some of the township's work. So if you can think of other 74 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:55,680 township topics that you'd like to hear experts or hear information about, 75 00:05:53,039 --> 00:05:58,800 please do put that on the comment card. All right. So I think without further 76 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:03,680 ado, are you ready? >> I am. Okay. Thank you. 77 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:08,720 » Thank you. But just thank you, Trusty McGrath, and thank you uh Supervisor 78 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:12,479 Beard for inviting me here tonight. We uh are more than happy to do this. I 79 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:16,160 have a brief presentation. Well, not so brief, but a a pretty de a detailed 80 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:21,039 presentation, but I'm going to try and not keep you too long and hopefully we 81 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:25,280 won't see any uh you know any yawning or too much yawning. 82 00:06:22,319 --> 00:06:29,280 Um, so I I go through this presentation and then uh you know I know there's 83 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:32,880 people are here with specific questions and many of those questions get answered 84 00:06:31,039 --> 00:06:37,440 during this presentation. So we'll just hold that's great that we'll hold the 85 00:06:34,479 --> 00:06:41,280 questions till the end. We did um you know I'll talk you know some of my 86 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:46,240 history having been with with Clark in this area for such a long time. Um we 87 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:50,319 start the the Milton Township mosquito abatement district started as there had 88 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:54,880 been mosquito abatement district mosquito abatement going on in the 89 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:59,520 township for many years pri I many and many years prior. We treated um 90 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:04,240 Butterfield East and Butterfield West homeowners associations. And there was a 91 00:07:01,919 --> 00:07:08,400 group of homeowners associations. And as many of you know, the 80s and then 92 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:13,120 turned into the '9s with um some of these uh homeowners groups and civic 93 00:07:11,599 --> 00:07:16,000 groups kind of go by the wayside. It's it's hard to collect, you know, keep 94 00:07:14,639 --> 00:07:20,080 collecting money in that. And they said, "Well, why can't we um you know, really 95 00:07:18,639 --> 00:07:24,080 make this so we don't have to come back to the well every year and and collect 96 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:29,039 money from our neighbors?" And so they approached uh an actual referendum. So 97 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:33,680 this district was formed by public referendum and it was voted on. And I do 98 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:37,440 remember that one of the supervisor at the time said, "I can't believe they 99 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:42,560 that many people came out in a it was a November uh you know election and it was 100 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:46,080 actually snowed that day. They had light snow that day and they came out for 101 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:52,800 mosquitoes in a snowstorm is what the way he put it. So I you know I'll leave 102 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:58,639 you with that. So um Glenn Allen MAD had been again these districts were formed 103 00:07:55,280 --> 00:08:02,960 by referendum. So this is uh there's something in you know in the environment 104 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:08,319 there's there's as you're going to see uh common denominator be habitat low 105 00:08:06,479 --> 00:08:12,639 standing water. So there's something here that's producing. We have mosquito 106 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:17,599 production in the area and it and it's not you know this is not something new. 107 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:21,360 So, um, we've been in business since, uh, 1946 here in Northern Illinois. We 108 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:25,039 are the world's largest mosquito control contractor and we are, uh, one of 109 00:08:23,599 --> 00:08:29,039 Illinois's very own. So, we're based right here in Illinois. We're we're a 110 00:08:27,199 --> 00:08:34,240 global health public health products and service company. Now, uh, again, um, we 111 00:08:32,719 --> 00:08:38,560 we are very we have a very large footprint, not only in Illinois, but 112 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:44,720 very our headquarters are in DuPage County. So, um, uh, next slide, please. 113 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:48,480 So we're working a as agents of world health benefit. We're developing 114 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:52,399 mosquito control products with new modes of action to address resistance 115 00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:58,640 challenges and align public health with public preference. Uh we've we've again, 116 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:03,279 as Laura knows, we she travels throughout the country to these disease 117 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:10,320 outbreaks and Hurricane Katrina, you know, Hugo, um you you you name it. Any 118 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:13,680 types of of those very large um public health emergencies, as you're going to 119 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:17,600 find out, mosquitoes develop in standing, stagnant water. So, we get 120 00:09:14,959 --> 00:09:20,240 these floods. Two weeks later, where did all these mosquitoes come from? Well, 121 00:09:18,959 --> 00:09:24,800 you know, they do. You remember that flood that we had? So um we're improving 122 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:28,160 the overall quality of life and relieving uh relieving communities of 123 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:32,480 postweather emergencies and disease vectoring mosquitoes partnering with 124 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:35,600 Puerto Rico uh fighting DA and Brazil fighting disease in India providing 125 00:09:33,839 --> 00:09:41,360 animal health products to pro protect livestock and food supplies. Uh next 126 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:45,440 slide please. Our mission is to make communities around the world more 127 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:48,720 livable, safe and comfortable. Um, I think there's another. 128 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:52,480 » Our vision is to create an organization that reaches around the world to help 129 00:09:50,399 --> 00:09:55,680 make the lives of more than 660 million people more livable, safe, and 130 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:58,880 comfortable. And our values are caring. Our values are caring for the planet, 131 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:02,959 caring for people, being passionate about what we do, and doing the right 132 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:06,959 thing even when it's hard. We have two core competencies uh with 133 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:11,200 within Clark. It's public health mosquito control products. So, these are 134 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:16,720 the products that are used to control the the insect itself. um and the public 135 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:20,160 health mosquito control services. This is the aspect that that Milton Township 136 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:24,880 falls under. So, this is a service that we provide for the township and other 137 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:29,440 municipalities throughout Northern Illinois. Um we we feel that we're we're 138 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:35,760 in a very unique position because we are the only mosquito control manufacturer 139 00:10:33,519 --> 00:10:40,160 company that does both. We there's a lot of players out there that that want to 140 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:44,079 manufacture the product and you know and and be down the road. We we actually uh 141 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:48,640 apply these products. We have an expertise in applying them. We have our 142 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:55,200 own uh you know in-house field sciences. So for efficacy studies for operational 143 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:59,279 uh purposes. Um many of the these districts actually come to our facility 144 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:03,680 and get trained on on proper procedure. At one time we even had a mosquito 145 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:08,480 university. So we were um where people from all over the country came and got 146 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:11,440 trained on on it was really it is such a niche market that there was no one you 147 00:11:10,079 --> 00:11:16,240 know there's no one else doing this. So some of it you know passed down like 148 00:11:13,839 --> 00:11:20,800 folklore you know with with within these you know within these organizations. So 149 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:25,839 um everything we do is guided by a lens of sustainability. We we produce a 150 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:30,240 sustainability report on uh every two years I believe. Um the some of these 151 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:34,240 numbers have increased. 16% of our energy is sourced from on-site 152 00:11:31,519 --> 00:11:40,560 renewables. We have a very high worker uh co-worker retention. We have 43% less 153 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:45,440 waste created, 100% carbon neutral. And in a in a pro in an industry where the 154 00:11:43,279 --> 00:11:50,000 image is of the skull crossbones and a pesticide that's this is very 155 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:53,920 impressive. Uh 12 of our what we call nextgen products and next generation 156 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:58,880 products and services created. I'll get into that a little bit. Um but there's a 157 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:04,480 kind of an eco tier that we go through on the on the um and here it is eco tier 158 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:08,720 on our products here conventional will be the old science and technology gas 159 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:14,160 powered oil based ingredients 20 years 25 year plus character smarter science 160 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:19,680 and technology for advanced electric powered synthetic ingredients 15 to 20 161 00:12:16,959 --> 00:12:23,120 years old character uh the nextg what we call next generation cutting edge 162 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:28,240 science and technology human and renewable energy powered we're treating 163 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:31,760 the catch basins by bicycle. Uh the the the you're going to see in some 164 00:12:30,399 --> 00:12:36,240 of the products you're using here is a natural art product which I'm going to 165 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:39,440 get into uh is really it's won the presidential green chemistry award. It's 166 00:12:37,839 --> 00:12:44,000 really at the cutting edge of what of what is possible in mosquito control 167 00:12:41,519 --> 00:12:48,800 organic. Uh it's a true organic. This is made in an Omry listed uh facility in 168 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:52,320 Shamberg, Illinois. Really just you know stones throw from the DuPage County 169 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:58,240 line. organic and andor natural ingredients. And that's less than five 170 00:12:54,079 --> 00:13:02,560 years old, new life. Uh we're, you know, again, we're very big into the uh 171 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:07,360 community involvement as well as uh we the truck out in the parking lot, we 172 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:11,760 donated that for the food pantry. So um and I hopefully we can continue to do 173 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:17,600 more of that. Uh so we we we do tremendous amount of volunteer hours 174 00:13:13,279 --> 00:13:22,639 each on an annual basis as well. Uh so what in in this setting in a municipal 175 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:27,200 township you know government MAD setting what we provide is a turnkey services uh 176 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:31,600 program is built around what's known as integrated mosquito management. There's 177 00:13:29,279 --> 00:13:35,120 a very uh in the pesticides control industry it's integrated pest 178 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:40,800 management. We we we term it as integrated mosquito management and it's 179 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:45,920 based on education surveying and mapping which uh we have a 180 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:51,760 map right there that that in the brown tan uh shaded section is your mosquito 181 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:58,720 abatement district within the township. Um I'll get into that too a little bit 182 00:13:54,160 --> 00:14:02,000 more. uh the habitat to find and and determine where those where these 183 00:13:59,839 --> 00:14:05,760 mosquitoes are developing is is key to any you know in any integrated mosquito 184 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:10,000 management program any mosquito control program. Um we have a tremendous amount 185 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:16,480 of education. I have please help yourselves. I got a lot of material out 186 00:14:11,519 --> 00:14:21,040 there. Um and we we provide uh trifolds on not only what you know I I like this 187 00:14:19,279 --> 00:14:23,440 part because you you get a lot of people come in and say well what's the 188 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:26,800 government going to do for me? What? What? Well, there's things that, you 189 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:30,000 know, I want you to read the yard and home checklist that you can be doing 190 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:35,440 that you're breeding these mosquitoes in your yard that you need to take action 191 00:14:33,279 --> 00:14:39,920 on. The wheelbarrow left upright, the canoe, the rowboat, simply turn it over 192 00:14:37,839 --> 00:14:43,760 and you're going to stop production of, you know, could be millions upon 193 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:49,680 millions of mosquitoes. The kitty pool, you know, the dog the the dog bowl, that 194 00:14:45,839 --> 00:14:55,680 type of thing. Uh, clog gutters. So, um, education is a big portion of what we 195 00:14:51,519 --> 00:14:59,920 do. Uh the surveillance is the actual uh capturing and uh sampling and testing of 196 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:03,839 the mosquitoes, the actual mosquitoes themselves. Do do they have are they 197 00:15:01,839 --> 00:15:10,000 carrying the virus? Uh what's the population level? Uh and then the larval 198 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:14,720 control. Um and that's actually treating the standing water where the larvae 199 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:19,600 develops. Uh the the last aspect to it is adult control. And this is probably 200 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:22,800 you know what 99.9% of the population thinks of as mosquito control. They 201 00:15:21,279 --> 00:15:25,760 think it's that truck going down the street and you're spraying from 202 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:31,360 mosquitoes. That's actually a very very small, you know, it's probably 20 15 to 203 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:34,959 20% of what we do. So, um, we get a little bit of a bad rap there. To 204 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:39,120 understand mosquito control, you really have to understand their life cycle. So, 205 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:44,399 I'm going to go through if in tonight's presentation, if you take anything away, 206 00:15:41,199 --> 00:15:48,160 take take understand this. So, so pay attention to this. So, mosquitoes in the 207 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:53,120 form in an egg stage and they're microscopic in that egg stage. There 208 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:57,680 there's two species two main species of mosquitoes but there's subspecies about 209 00:15:54,800 --> 00:16:02,079 36 40 mosquitoes in Illinois but the majority of them are under what's called 210 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:07,759 a cullex species or an 80 species. The 80 species is a floodwater mosquito 211 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:10,959 which we are going to have um you know I'm I'll stick my neck out here. We're 212 00:16:09,279 --> 00:16:14,959 going to have an abundance a great abundance of adult 80s flood water 213 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:19,279 mosquitoes here in the next two to three weeks because of the st amount of 214 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:23,120 standing water we have. So those eggs are laid intermittent on the flood plane 215 00:16:21,199 --> 00:16:27,279 and the water as it rains the water rises. So we're seeing our retention 216 00:16:25,199 --> 00:16:32,800 detention ponds. I've never seen it that high that the water's over the road. 217 00:16:30,079 --> 00:16:37,680 Every year they lay every little hatch they they lay their eggs intermittent on 218 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:43,759 that, you know, in that mud line, if you will, in that uh soil, and the water 219 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:47,920 comes and activates those eggs. So we can have mosquitoes from the last four 220 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:51,440 or five years that we never because the water level never got that high. And 221 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:55,600 that's kind of what we're going to be into a little bit here. The key we have 222 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:58,480 the water. The key other key ingredients I'm going to talk about is you're going 223 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:02,320 to need heat for that. We need this is kind of a you know we've got a little 224 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:08,319 state of execution here with the cold temperatures. Uh there the that's the 80 225 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:13,919 species. The QX species lays this in an A graft on the water itself. So, so 226 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:21,360 those are the two separate um >> about 200 to 300 eggs at a time 227 00:17:16,959 --> 00:17:26,959 » and the uh so so that that water gets activated. They then go into a laral 228 00:17:24,079 --> 00:17:31,440 stage and they develop and we need standing stagnant water. If we have a 229 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:36,160 wave action so it's a blue lake, you know, they breathe through an air tube 230 00:17:33,039 --> 00:17:39,440 here and they'll they'll suffocate them. The female mosquito won't even lay her 231 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:43,919 eggs there because that, you know, that wave action is happening. So a river, a 232 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:46,240 stream, moving water. It's more of the pocket the back water after the flood. 233 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:50,080 You know that >> retention pond that has aation in it and 234 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:54,240 fountains. Those will all help reduce the risks. 235 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:57,600 » Um so so they're they filter feed in this stage and that's the treat that's 236 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:02,160 the significance of treating that standing water. And the product works. 237 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:06,720 It is it it is a pesticide. It kills the pest but it's not a pesticide again in 238 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:10,640 the skull and crossbones combust you know flammability reactivity. It it is a 239 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:15,919 gut toxin. that reacts with the pH balance in their stomach lining and they 240 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:20,400 don't reach this adult stage. The next stage is is what's called the pupil 241 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:24,240 stage. This is just a resting stage. So this is a metamorphosis just like a 242 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:28,640 caterpillar through a butterfly. So so a metamorphosis is going on. They hatch 243 00:18:26,799 --> 00:18:32,720 off and leave their skin behind as a whole separate adult mosquito which 244 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:38,160 again the majority of the population thinks of as that flying mosquito. But 245 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:42,400 they had to go through this this cycle to to hatch as that flying mosquito. 246 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:45,760 Here, if we can go back a little bit. >> How long does that take? 247 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:50,960 » That's what I was. So, this life cycle, egg to adult in a in a what's called a 248 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:55,120 tropical environment, the perfect environment for any insect. And that's 249 00:18:52,559 --> 00:19:00,080 defined by 8080. 80 degrees Fahrenheit, 80% relative humidity. That will go in 250 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:05,200 four days in a constant 8080. We get into that here in July and August, we're 251 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:10,320 86 80 at, you know, midnight 1 2 in the morning. So, uh, again, we have the 252 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:14,080 water, we have the eggs being activated. We just need the heat now. Our in the 253 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:18,559 Midwest here with our we're probably about a 7 to 10 day life cycle. Um, just 254 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:24,720 because of our it depends what our overnight lows do. So, um, and and again 255 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:30,559 the, uh, relative humidity, too. So, 80 80% relative humidity, 80 degrees 256 00:19:26,559 --> 00:19:35,840 Fahrenheit. Um, so this is going on, you know, every 7 to 10 days throughout the 257 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:39,200 summer. Um, the best way to describe this is just like we get the the sun and 258 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:42,480 the rain and the grass grows. Well, the same thing's happening with the insect 259 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:45,600 population. I've been doing this, you know, a lot of years of people, Jack, is 260 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:49,200 there any silver bullet that we can just do one thing at the beginning of the 261 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:54,320 season and, you know, knock this out? And unfortunately, there isn't. There 262 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:57,919 it's it's a it's a biological process. And there are some mosquitoes that 263 00:19:55,760 --> 00:20:03,520 actually breed in water supplies that are as small as a bottle cap. So it's 264 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:08,080 nearly impossible to a treat all those areas and b be able to reduce them by 265 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:12,080 tipping or tossing out those kind of things. The more that you can do though 266 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:15,679 in your own yard, mosquitoes don't tend to travel very far from where they 267 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:19,760 breed, at least the species that are around here. So it's very important that 268 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:24,160 residents, if they would like to increase their own protection, take care 269 00:20:21,919 --> 00:20:28,720 of their own yards. And it's another re by an organized program like this, it 270 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:33,440 moves the needle. We could say you you got the guy, well, I'm just going to 271 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:37,840 take care of my yard and you know, if if you know 16 ounces is good, you know, a 272 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:41,600 gallon's got to be better. And that's something, you know, that's that's as we 273 00:20:39,679 --> 00:20:44,400 all know, that's what happens. Um whether we like it or not, but that that 274 00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:50,720 that's what's going to go on. And it doesn't as a again you can they travel 275 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:55,520 up to about seven miles to from where their source their source of development 276 00:20:52,480 --> 00:21:00,880 is too. So um you you need to do this on a communitywide basis on a you on a very 277 00:20:58,159 --> 00:21:05,120 large scale approach. Um next slide please. So again we are big in in in 278 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:09,520 education. I ask you know please feel free to grab some of our data our our 279 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:14,480 literature and take it home. Um and we're very forthcoming with this. we um 280 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:18,159 share it, you know, and we let the the township and the municipalities, we say, 281 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:23,120 you know, feel free to plagiarize and put it on your website. Um it it's it's 282 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:27,200 just great information to get out there. So, um again, there there's a lot of 283 00:21:25,919 --> 00:21:32,480 things that the homeowners are doing that are creating mosquitoes in their 284 00:21:28,799 --> 00:21:37,760 yard. Um next slide, please. So, surveying and mapping is just that. will 285 00:21:35,039 --> 00:21:42,400 we work off USGS uh topographical maps to find our low lowline flood plane area 286 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:46,799 and find these sorts you know these sites that are developing the mosquitoes 287 00:21:44,799 --> 00:21:52,480 and I we have some of the they're marked in blue there but um we didn't want the 288 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:56,880 map to get too busy uh some of it gets you know it gets kind of like spaghetti 289 00:21:54,159 --> 00:22:00,880 so um and then every street on that that every just like you would snowplow every 290 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:07,039 public rightway is being treated when we do the adult control 291 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:12,480 Surveillance is the actual testing looking for the actual the the larvae in 292 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:16,640 the scanning water. The bring that those samples back to our lab. They're sorted 293 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:24,080 to species to the actual sex as a male or a female. Um the tra the uh what we 294 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:31,679 call carbon dioxide trap or more of a a specific trap is the adult mosquitoes 295 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:34,880 after they they they take the the blood is is not their food. Their food is 296 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:40,080 plant nectar. So they feed on the broadleaf plant um the chlorophyll in 297 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:43,120 the plant that is their food. The blood fertilizes the female's eggs and she 298 00:22:41,679 --> 00:22:48,000 goes through diipause and lays those eggs. That's the significance of the 299 00:22:44,799 --> 00:22:53,520 blood. Once they they're the viruses, the encphalitic viruses are transmitted 300 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:56,559 by the migratory birds. So, it's in they're they're what we call the the 301 00:22:55,120 --> 00:23:00,640 reservoir. The birds are what are called the reservoir. So, it's in that bird 302 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:04,080 population on an annual basis. The birds migrate back in. Everybody says, "Well, 303 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:06,799 you know, it froze. How come the mosquitoes aren't here? You know, how 304 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:11,840 come we how do we get the virus back?" Well, they're in the migratory birds. 305 00:23:09,039 --> 00:23:17,679 So, uh that mosquito bites the bird. It lives in her salivary gland and uh then 306 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:22,320 it's it's in vitro. So like she lays those those eggs and then that 307 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:26,799 subsequent hatches those mosquitoes are then infected with West Nile St. Louis 308 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:32,640 and sephilas you know dog heart. So it's logarithmic as the season goes on we are 309 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:37,039 you are more sus we have more a higher percent of mosquitoes infected with the 310 00:23:35,039 --> 00:23:42,000 viruses at the end of the season as we do at the beginning of the season. So 311 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:46,159 this is why the trapping is going on and uh we're very interested in what's how 312 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:50,960 soon we get how soon we get a positive we had extremely we had 150 human cases 313 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:55,919 of westnau virus in Illinois alone last year we had a very it was very early May 314 00:23:53,440 --> 00:24:00,720 I think it was May right around May 1 in the first week of 315 00:23:58,159 --> 00:24:06,720 May they found uh positive mosquitoes in Rockford Illinois so that was uh you 316 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:09,520 know a real eye openener um for our for our district you know for our northern 317 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:13,600 Northern Illinois that's that's really early. Um we will see it in July and we 318 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:18,480 will see you know we'll see high prevalence in in August and then 319 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:21,279 obviously September and everybody's kind of wait you know they're crossing their 320 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:27,360 fingers. So there's some hard there's some rule of thumbs there that I can 321 00:24:22,799 --> 00:24:31,520 share. Uh you're about one month from from the the time that you get your 322 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:36,640 first positive mosquitoes. You're about one month from the time you you'll see a 323 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:40,320 human case. So, uh, we used to test birds, migratory birds, and we would 324 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:44,159 sample them. So, we would say by the time we had our first positive bird, we 325 00:24:41,919 --> 00:24:48,240 were one month until it jumped into the and and transferred into the mosquito 326 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:53,360 population. So, then we're about another month before it's going to be in the 327 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:57,440 human population. Um, and then you're, you know, depending on your temperature, 328 00:24:54,960 --> 00:25:02,320 what the epidemiologist say, heat is the throttle for Westnau virus. So the 329 00:24:59,279 --> 00:25:07,200 hotter it gets, the more vymia, the more vymic load we're going to have in the 330 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:12,640 environment. So uh the the theory, and it's it's been a proven theory, is that 331 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:16,720 the as the summer goes on and it gets drier, the mosquitoes and the birds are 332 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:20,960 both competing for the same dwindling water source. And the birds needed to to 333 00:25:19,039 --> 00:25:25,120 wash their food and and you know, every animal needs needs water for life. So 334 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:28,720 they were living on, you know, the 40 acre farm and now they're living, you 335 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:32,400 know, in in apartments and and they're living closer together. So they're 336 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:38,320 forced into a tighter environment and the the vymic the virus cycle is 337 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:43,600 amplified. So we uh you know, so again, we're we're very interested in what what 338 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:47,919 month of the what time of the season we have these these positives and that 339 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:52,320 those positives trigger the adult control portion as well. I'd just like 340 00:25:49,919 --> 00:25:56,640 to say that West Nile virus is endemic to the area, which means it is always 341 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:59,919 here. It's just that everything with mosquito control is like weather. If the 342 00:25:58,559 --> 00:26:04,159 weather conditions are right, we will have a really rough year with voicemail 343 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:08,080 virus. If it's not as aggressive or doesn't have the same characteristics, 344 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:12,480 we may have fewer cases, but we are rarely going to have no cases because we 345 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:17,360 just have that virus load in the environment right now. 346 00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:21,440 » So, uh, part of that that testing I was telling you about, it's called PCR. a 347 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:27,279 fancy, you know, acre for polymer race chain reaction test. This is a DNA test. 348 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:33,120 Uh, and we uh have a state-of-the-art PCR lab. It's a bio uh biosafety level 349 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:37,279 two. Um, and we do the testing here in inhouse right right on site. So, we have 350 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:40,960 a a quick turnover. All that data is shared with the DuPage County Health, 351 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:44,720 the Illinois Department of Public Health, and the Centers for for Disease 352 00:26:42,799 --> 00:26:50,480 Control. So, all this data is uploaded and shared on on very large databases. 353 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:54,640 Um the DuPage County Health will then which we got into last summer. We'll say 354 00:26:52,799 --> 00:26:58,320 we we are at a level two, we're at a level three, we're at a level four. So 355 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:02,720 there's there's varying levels as far as how many positives they are getting. We 356 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:07,360 had a very active year last year. We had positives back probably three to four 357 00:27:05,039 --> 00:27:12,720 weeks in a row out of Glenn Allen and out of Weaton. Um that's kind of you 358 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:17,840 that's not good. We don't see that very often. So we we we sounded sounded the 359 00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:21,679 alarm bell and uh and we we did the adult control in response to that. The 360 00:27:20,159 --> 00:27:27,360 adult control can also be triggered for the flood water mosquitoes too. So um we 361 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:30,559 we'll talk about that natural the the some of the products that are being used 362 00:27:28,799 --> 00:27:36,400 is again a state-of-the-art product called natural XRT. I'll pass that 363 00:27:32,559 --> 00:27:42,720 around and please uh don't take it home with you. 364 00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:47,679 Uh this is 180 up to 180day slow release tablet is releasing slowly releasing the 365 00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:52,400 active ingredient. This is as we all know what a catch basin or a manhole 366 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:56,240 cover is uh that's on the pavement that's on this this the right the public 367 00:27:54,720 --> 00:28:00,159 roadway the water if we we get an inch rain the 368 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:05,039 cars would hydrop your plane. So the water has to come off the roadway. It 369 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:11,760 goes down into a into the municipal water system. There's probably about a 370 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:14,960 twoft round drain and it's not just a tee like that. If as the water came up, 371 00:28:13,679 --> 00:28:20,799 the water would come up and flood the road again. So below that that 372 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:26,799 horizontal pipe that goes into your your public water system, your uh wastewater 373 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:32,399 management is a sump. So that sump holds holds water. And as when it doesn't 374 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:36,320 rain, that's a nice every 500 ft. It's a beautiful little breeding ground for 375 00:28:34,399 --> 00:28:41,120 Tullex mosquitoes within your community every 500 ft. And this is the big 376 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:46,880 takeaway from the outbreak in Chicago and that we've had here is where the 377 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:49,760 people from Chicago came where where the everything's paved. Where are the 378 00:28:48,159 --> 00:28:52,880 mosquitoes coming from? You know, we have very little cattail, you know, 379 00:28:51,039 --> 00:28:58,559 maybe at Lake Calumett, but that doesn't explain the cases in, you know, Logan 380 00:28:54,960 --> 00:29:02,159 Square in Austin, you know. So, uh, it turns out every 500 feet there's this, 381 00:29:01,039 --> 00:29:06,880 you know, there's this perfect little breeding ground for the mosquitoes. So, 382 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:11,200 um, this this was a big lesson learned and these catch basins since that, you 383 00:29:08,799 --> 00:29:15,279 know, 01 since Wnau came here, you know, through New York City, pretty much every 384 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:20,080 major city and and municipality is treating the the catch basins with with 385 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:23,919 these products. Um, it is again it's a it's a winner of the presidential green 386 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:29,440 chemistry award. Adult control is the second is that phase after laral 387 00:29:26,399 --> 00:29:35,120 control. It's kind of when you know the that first line of defense has been 388 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:38,960 breached. And now uh you as we all know we we lived here through the 90s and and 389 00:29:37,039 --> 00:29:43,039 and 2000s. We we were getting the 500year flood every two to three years. 390 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:47,279 The whole county became a breeding ground. You say you know think just 391 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:52,000 think three four weeks ago where there there was water everywhere. So that 392 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:55,520 happens with a little you know we're 10 degrees below normal right now. If we 393 00:29:53,440 --> 00:30:00,399 are 10 degrees above normal we have a real problem. So that you know that 394 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:04,080 comes off everywhere. So the only way you know the the only way to control 395 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:08,799 those mosquitoes is through adult mosquito control. There's there's and 396 00:30:06,399 --> 00:30:12,320 especially the only way to control an adult infected mosquito is is through 397 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:16,559 adult mosquito control. This can be done in two ways. This is the backpack 398 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:19,360 barrier and this is what's talked about. I know one of the guys had a question 399 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:22,559 comment. I want to know what my my neighbor's spraying. Well, we we 400 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:26,480 invented that. It's it's they're usually used in a product called peromethine or 401 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:30,080 sumethine. It's a it's a product that's the active ingredient in a dog flee and 402 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:35,279 tick collar. It mixes with water. They put it in a in a backpack and they spray 403 00:30:32,399 --> 00:30:40,480 just the foliage. So, the mosquito lands on that foliage and h harbors in that 404 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:44,480 foliage takes that goes for the chlorophyll and they get a contact kill 405 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:49,840 when they land on it. It is completely washed away after it rains. So on a 406 00:30:47,039 --> 00:30:53,840 large scale, it's great for, you know, bark in the park for the, you know, for 407 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:57,039 the uh, you know, the softball game, that type of it's it's it's a it's a 408 00:30:55,679 --> 00:31:03,200 great, you know, movies in the park. It's a great thing to do prior, but it 409 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:07,120 is not a communitywide answer. You you're you're going to get very you're 410 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:11,760 you're not killing in the laral stage, so all the the disease infected 411 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:14,480 mosquitoes are still going to hatch. So um, you know, like I a lot of people, 412 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:18,880 well, we don't need to do that. everybody just does does their little 413 00:31:16,159 --> 00:31:22,080 backyard go up, you know, it's uh it's not going to be affected on a large on a 414 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:25,520 large scale. And again, it's a temporary. It's a band-aid. It's going 415 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:30,080 to it's going to be washed away, you know, when the rain comes. So, um and 416 00:31:28,559 --> 00:31:34,640 then the other thing is is the truck. Many of the I think in Glenn Ellen, 417 00:31:31,919 --> 00:31:39,840 we're using a lot of electric a lot of electric machines now, too. So, the low 418 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:46,960 so the uh the noise level is very low, very subdued. Um we're putting uh trucks 419 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:52,240 in here on about you know eight to 10 of the eight to 12 at a time and doing we 420 00:31:49,039 --> 00:31:57,279 so in conjunction we're using uh Weaten, Glenn Ellen, Milton Township, 421 00:31:54,640 --> 00:32:00,159 Bloomingdale Township and it's a blanket coverage so we don't give them anywhere 422 00:31:58,559 --> 00:32:06,559 to hide. So we're getting a very we're getting a very nice effic you know of 423 00:32:02,399 --> 00:32:10,159 efficacy out of that. Um and again the temperatures need to be above 50 degrees 424 00:32:08,559 --> 00:32:17,120 and the wind speed needs to be below about you know 15 20 miles an hour. So 425 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:22,880 um those are the parameters for that. Um we do a lot of emergency response 426 00:32:19,039 --> 00:32:26,960 services too in in uh wherever they may be. Want to talk you know a little bit 427 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:31,039 more about you know the mosquitoes themselves. Anything else I can you know 428 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:36,720 other tidbits I can give you on mosquitoes. They live about a month that 429 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:42,399 um the males really are only two weeks. Um they in that month they can do about 430 00:32:40,159 --> 00:32:47,200 three sets two to three sets of of egg laying. Um 431 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:52,720 there again their food is plant nectar. The the mosquitoes you're feeling bite 432 00:32:49,679 --> 00:32:55,919 you is that's only the female. So that's half the population. That's how many 433 00:32:54,399 --> 00:33:00,880 mosquitoes are out there. So there's trillions in the environment in any 434 00:32:57,919 --> 00:33:06,159 given July or August, September as well. So um the only the female bites you the 435 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:11,360 male doesn't have the probosus doesn't have the stinger so she can't so she 436 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:15,360 can't physically bite you. Um, it not every mosquito is infected at this, you 437 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:18,880 know, oh my god, I got by by the cullex mosquito, I'm going to get Westnau 438 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:21,760 virus. It's, as I explained it to Jackie, it's like so many other things 439 00:33:20,159 --> 00:33:26,320 in life, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time. And you get bit by 440 00:33:23,919 --> 00:33:31,200 that mosquito that has this high vymic load. And they go through in their in 441 00:33:29,039 --> 00:33:34,159 their life cycle too, they're, you know, when they first get infected, they're 442 00:33:32,559 --> 00:33:37,840 not going to transmit it at a real high high level. they're going to it's uh you 443 00:33:36,399 --> 00:33:42,080 know it's going to incubate inside them and then they can transmit it at a 444 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:46,399 higher level. So um you're much any of the any of the mosquitob born illnesses 445 00:33:44,559 --> 00:33:51,679 you're much more susceptible to it if you have a condition an existing 446 00:33:47,919 --> 00:33:55,519 condition uh you know the the transplant fe patients um other p other pe 447 00:33:54,559 --> 00:33:59,120 residents with >> some kind of compromised 448 00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:01,600 » compromised immune system um you know the people on chemo and that type of 449 00:34:01,279 --> 00:34:05,200 thing >> and even if you're bitten and contract 450 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:11,440 west nile virus the chances that you'll develop severe severe disease is only 451 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:16,560 about 1 in 50 cases. You know, it takes about two to 14 days after the bite of 452 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:21,119 an infected mosquito to show symptoms. So, most people who experience West Nile 453 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:26,560 symptoms, it's just going to feel like you've got a bad flu. Um, you know, your 454 00:34:23,599 --> 00:34:31,520 head hurts, you're achy, body aches, um, sometimes even a rash. So the more that 455 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:36,240 you can so when we talk about human cases those are cases that were severe 456 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:41,280 enough for people to first of all seek treatment and secondly they lasted long 457 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:44,960 enough that they needed to find out exactly what was causing this. So enough 458 00:34:43,359 --> 00:34:49,280 testing had been done that we can identify that. So we know that even 459 00:34:46,879 --> 00:34:54,399 though there were 14 human cases designated in DuPage County inevitably 460 00:34:52,399 --> 00:34:58,400 there were quite a few more people that were infected last year just by the 461 00:34:56,079 --> 00:35:02,000 numbers. some of the the CDC epidemiologist 462 00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:07,520 um mentioned that there's probably you can multiply that by six of the people 463 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:12,000 that actually got um you know heart disease to you know re really were 464 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:18,880 infected bad the a lot of the really good research came this first came to um 465 00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:25,200 New York City in 2001 it didn't I'm99 >> 1999 then we had 2000 and um then it 466 00:35:23,839 --> 00:35:29,440 moved down the eastern seabboard and came back up through the Mississippi 467 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:32,960 River flyway to the to the Midwest. We didn't we thought it was going to jump 468 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:37,359 over and come right from New York City, but it came down there was a bird flyway 469 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:42,720 down the eastern seabboard messed around in the Gulf there and then it came up 470 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:47,040 and again I'm Chicago 2001. So I got you know tunnel vision on 2001 471 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:53,359 um and then then we had the big outbreak here in in Chicago um and numerous you 472 00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:57,680 know years after that. So again, it's there's the birds play a big role. 473 00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:03,839 They're that's in that environment of the bird population. Uh but the the 474 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:10,240 reason I bring that up is that um in 99 in New York City, they set up uh kind of 475 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:15,119 tri, you know, uh blood sampling testing centers right at the the subways and 476 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:19,200 that there's some fantastic tens of thousands of people were were blood 477 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:22,000 blood drawn, you know, not you know, I just feel sick or whatever. So they 478 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:26,560 actually and they that's how the epidemiologists came up with this. So we 479 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:30,400 had 150 multiply that by six. They know this from hard science. It's hard hard 480 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:36,960 blood draw hard blood draws. >> The human cases that are reported by the 481 00:36:33,119 --> 00:36:40,240 the IDPH are died in the wool. They that was uh 482 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:43,520 » you know it's in spinal fluid. They they take it you know you know spinal fluid. 483 00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:48,160 It is >> beyond a shadow of a doubt that person 484 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:53,119 has less virus. It's misdiagnosed. you know, you got the flu, you know, you 485 00:36:50,079 --> 00:36:57,760 don't feel good. So, um, I'll just talk real quick about emergency response. Uh, 486 00:36:55,200 --> 00:37:03,760 we do that on a, uh, maybe the next slide, just so you know that we we, uh, 487 00:37:01,599 --> 00:37:09,119 we do this on a very large scale. We, we partner with a dynamic aviation. They're 488 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:14,160 a very large a sprayer. Uh, uh, they have the largest fleet of King Aircraft 489 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:19,520 in the in the country. Um and we're able to res to to 490 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:23,599 25 over 30 million acres since September uh since 2004. It's much higher than 491 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:29,520 that. This is about a two or three year old uh presentation. Some of the data is 492 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:34,720 a little old. We do um there's a eastern ecoin sephilitis which is um a whole 493 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:38,800 different animal. It's kind of westnau virus on steroid. It's you know I think 494 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:42,240 you know what is it >> children are more susceptible. Yeah. Six 495 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:47,440 out of 10 people that get it actually pass away. It's it's it's really bad. 496 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:51,359 And we've had an outbreak and we we and 2019 and 2020 in Michigan in Bering 497 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:55,280 County and I would have bet the farm that it would have came down to, you 498 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:59,599 know, with all the people that vacation there in in southeast southwestern 499 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:03,200 Michigan that it would have came to Chicago. Came into a little bit into 500 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:08,640 Indiana, but it didn't make it into Chicago. I was really really shocked. Um 501 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:13,760 and there's there's been uh and and this again is in horses and there's a horse 502 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:18,480 vaccine for Westnau virus but not for humans. 503 00:38:15,839 --> 00:38:23,359 Um next slide please and the world needs 504 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:28,160 mosquito control. Um at this we we could open it up if um 505 00:38:27,839 --> 00:38:31,680 » questions >> to any questions. Can I prompt you while 506 00:38:30,079 --> 00:38:34,880 we wait for this for >> Let me ask if you have questions, please 507 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:38,560 write them down and pass them forward. We're going to pass them to Dave here on 508 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:42,640 the end. Um, and I have some questions too that I want to start with too. 509 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:46,240 » I'll just throw one in just because of just the insider view. You've done I 510 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:49,920 think a nice job describing that surveillance is going on, larvicidal 511 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:53,520 work is going on and then nighttime low volume fogging. 512 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:57,440 » Can you describe do you survey once or twice a month? Do you survey? So sort of 513 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,760 frequency there, frequency on large side and frequency of fogging. 514 00:38:59,119 --> 00:39:03,839 » Thank you. >> Some people call my it's all my office 515 00:39:02,079 --> 00:39:06,880 and they say I want fogging every night. Well, that's not happening. And then 516 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:10,800 others are, you know, hoping it would happen less. So just to understand what 517 00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:15,760 the current general pattern is. >> Thank you. I did I kind of I I did kind 518 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:19,200 of race through that. So that that's that's a very good point. So the 519 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:23,200 surveillance and monitoring is there for a reason to give us the tra, you know, 520 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:27,119 to give us the population level of the mosquitoes in Milton Township at any 521 00:39:25,359 --> 00:39:30,480 given time. Those traps are running three nights per week. 522 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:34,800 » Um, and that's just telling us the population level. So we have a very good 523 00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:38,720 handle not only, you know, in mil in Milton, but we also piggyback on 524 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:43,599 information from Wheaton and from West Chicago. So So we've got a pretty good 525 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:50,640 snapshot of what's uh of what's going on. uh that data is is transferred into 526 00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:55,680 hey you know Buffy we you know it's it's we're seeing a high level um 527 00:39:53,119 --> 00:39:59,599 then if call this is really off the charts the phone's ringing off the hook 528 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:05,119 um so there's multiple things that would trigger that would translate into an 529 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:09,040 adult mosquito control action would be a number one we had a positive in the 530 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:14,079 district that's we we now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's just there's 531 00:40:11,359 --> 00:40:17,839 live mosquitoes in the in Glenn Ellen that you know just again be at the wrong 532 00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:22,480 place at the wrong time you're going to get bit. So we want to abate that new 533 00:40:20,079 --> 00:40:28,480 that risk we want to reduce that risk. Um we have our that's that's a number 534 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:32,000 one the public health uh aspect of it. The second the first sentence of the 535 00:40:30,079 --> 00:40:36,320 mosquito abatement district act is to control a mosquito abatement district 536 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:40,079 shall be formed to control nuisance and disease carrying mosquitoes. So, we wear 537 00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:43,520 another hat with the with the nuisance uh aspect of it. And this goes back to, 538 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:47,119 you know, why did the people from Butterfield East and Butterfield West go 539 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:51,200 to the ballot box? Because they're tired of getting bitten by mosquitoes. So, we 540 00:40:49,119 --> 00:40:54,800 control nuisance mosquitoes as well. That's done through the surveillance 541 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:59,359 through the New Jersey trap. Uh again, three times a week when we get very high 542 00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:04,640 annoyance and that will, you know, we'll we'll start recommending it to the to 543 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:09,200 the supervisor. Um again, the tri things need to be in place. We need to have the 544 00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:13,119 right temperatures, wind speeds. Um you we don't want to catch the falling 545 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:18,079 knife, too. Um there's another uh sampling that we do. 546 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:22,160 It's called a brood migration uh model. So we actually chart and graph the the 547 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:28,720 average daily temperatures, the relative humidity, and the rainfall. And uh John 548 00:41:25,599 --> 00:41:32,240 Clark senior invented a brood migration model. So we actually predict the night 549 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:36,960 that that's going to occur. And we double we double click we double check 550 00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:42,720 that on our our our physical the physical mosquitoes in the trap. So um 551 00:41:40,319 --> 00:41:46,400 what if we were about 10 20 degrees warmer right now we would be 552 00:41:44,319 --> 00:41:50,319 experiencing backtoback hatches. So I would want those mosquitoes to all hatch 553 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:54,160 off. I don't want to come out and spray and then then we get another hatch 20 48 554 00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:57,200 hours later and you say well you know this has happened before. You just made 555 00:41:55,359 --> 00:42:03,119 them mad you know and come back out again. So um so that that's that's 556 00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:06,800 another trigger. All these factors are in place prior to doing the adult 557 00:42:05,599 --> 00:42:12,319 » at least three times a week. >> The surveillance is three times a week. 558 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:17,440 » Signing is is actually we're doing uh we're doing six what we call targeted 559 00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:20,240 laral sites. These are historically the known 560 00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:25,040 » we we we do a targeted management system. So we have we have a database 561 00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:29,680 from 20 plus years of what sites actually breed mosquitoes, the species 562 00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:33,680 they breed mosquitoes. So after a 4 inch rain, we'll go to those sites and and 563 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:39,920 and and treat those. We do three complete inspections. So June, July, you 564 00:42:36,319 --> 00:42:44,079 know, May 15th, June 15th of all the sites within the township. So those are 565 00:42:42,240 --> 00:42:49,359 what we call complete inspections. Then we do six targeted uh uh inspections. So 566 00:42:47,599 --> 00:42:53,200 there's this standing water is being looked at, you know, nine times 567 00:42:51,359 --> 00:42:56,480 throughout the throughout the summer. >> And then the thing that I was surprised 568 00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:59,599 about, I'm not trying to, but just I was surprised because this is a hard 569 00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:04,400 decision, right, as a group. Is it time to fog? It's not like it gets fogged 15 570 00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:07,839 times in a summer. How many times was Glenn Ellen fog last year? 571 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:12,560 » Four. Four. And that was high water mark. that was with, you know, um, you 572 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:16,560 know, unfortunately humans here in in Glenn Allen were 573 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:19,359 hospitalized and had, you know, had unusual amount. 574 00:43:17,599 --> 00:43:22,079 » Correct. Correct. That would be, you know, that that, 575 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:24,720 » you know, four to five. I mean, >> yep. So, just so we all get the 576 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:28,560 » By September, we're up >> lots of surveying, lots of laride. 577 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:32,000 » By September, we're, you know, do we get the first frost? A lot of, you know, I 578 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:35,040 think some of the public doesn't understand the kids are back in school. 579 00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:39,280 Why are you spraying? Well, you know, you're it's September 10th, but you're 580 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:42,960 actually at 15th. You're actually at the highest level of risk right now. We we 581 00:43:41,119 --> 00:43:46,800 had multiple every week we're putting the trap in Glenn Ellen and wheaten and 582 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:50,319 we're getting positives and it's not it's not slowing down. You know, as you 583 00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:54,640 remember, it keeps getting hotter and you know, it's kept kept getting hotter. 584 00:43:52,079 --> 00:43:59,920 Um so, you know that why why are you why are you rolling the truck? So, 585 00:43:55,920 --> 00:44:03,040 » thank you. Um there I'm trying to think of what other 586 00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:05,359 » I don't want to take too much air time because I've got plenty of time to call 587 00:44:04,079 --> 00:44:09,119 you if I have questions. >> Well, so um let me ask a few questions 588 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:12,400 that we know are kind of the big questions. I think I I don't know if I 589 00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:15,599 said this at the start. We get a lot we do get a lot of questions about the 590 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:20,000 mosquito bait and we want to be able to have accurate information. So, one of 591 00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:24,480 the top questions is really um when it comes to the trucks and the spraying and 592 00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:29,119 even the larvicide, how does this affect other animals, species, pollinators, 593 00:44:27,599 --> 00:44:32,800 bees? Can you tell us a little bit more about that because it's it's two 594 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:35,599 different things, the larvaicide and the spray. So, tell us about those. 595 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:40,160 » Correct. >> Laura's Yeah, Laura's a noted expert on 596 00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:45,920 it. Um the the actual application is called ULV, ultra low volume cold 597 00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:49,119 aerosol mist. So is extremely low dosage rate and I think you're going to be 598 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:54,319 shocked at how how low of a dosage rate that is. The mosquito itself is about 599 00:44:51,119 --> 00:44:59,280 86% water. So they're not a hard it's not like a grub in the ground or um you 600 00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:03,599 know a beetle that we need a lot a mouse or you know is a form of pest control. 601 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:08,240 Mosquito control uses the least amount of active ingredient of any form of pest 602 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:13,680 control out there. As a matter of fact, our our products very often get a a pass 603 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:17,359 from the US EPA. the some of the the laws that they passed, they said, you 604 00:45:15,359 --> 00:45:21,040 know, mosquito control is so low. We're not you're exempt from that. There's a 605 00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:24,400 public health exemption to a lot of our products. So Laura's going to go in much 606 00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:26,800 greater detail. >> One of the things that's really 607 00:45:25,359 --> 00:45:31,119 important to remember with mosquito control is that there's a very small 608 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:35,119 amount of active ingredient. I bring this as an illustration because it's 609 00:45:33,119 --> 00:45:43,200 approximately for the dosage that we use, it is that much treating a football 610 00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:47,520 field. So that is our dosage per acre for the products that we use. And the 611 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:52,720 reason why we do adult mosquito control the way we do it where it's this ultra- 612 00:45:49,359 --> 00:45:57,599 low volume spray. The droplets are designed to interact with a mosquito's 613 00:45:55,040 --> 00:46:02,079 biology. And these droplets are extremely small, very several can fit on 614 00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:05,920 the head of a pin. It's designed to be small enough because it actually has to 615 00:46:03,839 --> 00:46:11,680 interact with the mosquito while it's in flight. Because the product we use 616 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:15,839 actually has an impact called benign agitation. We talked a little bit about 617 00:46:13,839 --> 00:46:19,200 how mosquitoes can harbor, right? They hide under leaves. They're not really 618 00:46:17,359 --> 00:46:23,440 excited. They they want to wait it out until the mist goes away. But we have to 619 00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:28,079 be able to interact with that mosquito while it's flying. So Duet, the product 620 00:46:25,839 --> 00:46:32,160 that we use, has a component that creates benign agitation. It gets the 621 00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:36,319 mosquitoes very excited. they tend to fly out and we are able to connect 622 00:46:34,079 --> 00:46:40,079 connect with more of them while they're in the air. The great thing about the 623 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:44,079 product is that the minute it starts to come into contact with anything whether 624 00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:47,839 it's on the ground um whether you know it falls onto a leaf or or grass or 625 00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:52,319 something like that it immediately begins to break down. So these are not 626 00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:57,119 longlasting things in the environment. They are very quick. They must come into 627 00:46:54,400 --> 00:47:02,560 contact with a mosquito in on the wing. And so once we've had that opportunity 628 00:46:59,359 --> 00:47:06,480 to interact with the mosquito, the the swath goes out about 20 feet in the air, 629 00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:09,440 25 ft in the air, >> 300 feet downwind, 630 00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:13,280 » downwind, and then so it floats for a little bit 631 00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:16,960 in the atmosphere and then drops to the ground. So it's a very quick impact and 632 00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:19,920 that's why it's so important that we have the mosquitoes on the wing to 633 00:47:18,319 --> 00:47:26,480 affect them. >> It is biodegraded 100% within 24 hours, 634 00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:30,640 80% within 12 hours. And again, you're using a very minuscule amount of 635 00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:36,400 product. >> So, just to follow up on that, um, uh, 636 00:47:33,119 --> 00:47:42,240 sort of the flip side of it, does West West Nile itself, does does it kill 637 00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:45,040 birds? Does it does do other insects? >> And you know what? We didn't actually 638 00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:49,280 answer your question about an ontarget species. So, there's been a lot of 639 00:47:46,319 --> 00:47:53,839 research done about things like bees and things like that. Um, I have a study 640 00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:56,960 here from Louisiana State University. The headline says, "Studies show 641 00:47:55,200 --> 00:48:01,280 mosquitoes pesticides do not cause honeybee mortality." Um, another 642 00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:06,160 environmental study that just came out recently um said managed honeybees face 643 00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:10,160 greater risks from parasites and pathogens than mosquito control 644 00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:15,119 insecticide applications. So, this has been definitely something studied 645 00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:18,960 because the products can be in in large large doses they can be toxic to 646 00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:24,559 non-target. But the way that we use them, the way that we treat, the timing 647 00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:29,280 that we do it, we don't treat till dusk where most honey bees are already back 648 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:34,400 in their hives and other bees are back under um in their ground areas. They are 649 00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:38,079 not going to be impacted because they're not going to come into contact with the 650 00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:42,240 spray. It doesn't have residual effects. It's not being brought back into the 651 00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:46,240 hive. So, this is um something that we have looked at for years and there's 652 00:48:44,079 --> 00:48:50,240 been extensive research. not a lot of impact at all. Um, the other thing that 653 00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:56,079 a lot of people will bring up is whether or not bats can have a huge um impact on 654 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:59,920 mosquito populations and bats are a really great resource for eating 655 00:48:58,240 --> 00:49:05,200 mosquitoes. The problem is, as Jack said, trillions of mosquitoes, not 656 00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:08,880 enough bats. So, the the bats can have a an impact. They do eat a lot of 657 00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:13,599 mosquitoes. It's not going to be a great enough impact for that to have an impact 658 00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:18,319 on how many we have in the population. Um, and if we talk about birds, birds 659 00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:22,319 can be very strongly affected by West Nile. In fact, if you anybody were 660 00:49:20,319 --> 00:49:26,800 anybody around during the West Nile outbreak in 2010, do you remember how 661 00:49:24,319 --> 00:49:31,200 you didn't see any birds after that? We were getting reports of dead birds all 662 00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:35,440 the time and our crow population was decimated at that time. In fact, it's 663 00:49:33,359 --> 00:49:38,640 only just now starting to fully be rebounded. 664 00:49:36,079 --> 00:49:41,440 » It was 98% fatal the American crow. >> Exactly. 665 00:49:39,119 --> 00:49:46,000 » West Nile virus was. So, West Nile can have a strong impact on certain bird 666 00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:51,839 populations. Um, and because West Nile is a it's they're a reservoir um 667 00:49:49,119 --> 00:49:55,839 species, mosquitoes are definitely attracted to them to feed off of them, 668 00:49:53,839 --> 00:49:59,599 but then we end up being an end reservoir, not a reservoir, an end 669 00:49:57,599 --> 00:50:03,200 target for them. So, as long as the birds are being infected with Westnile 670 00:50:01,119 --> 00:50:07,280 virus, yes, it can harm them, but it can take a long time. We used to use 671 00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:10,720 Sentinel chickens too to monitor to see if birds were contracting West Nile 672 00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:15,040 virus and that's still being used in a lot of areas of the country. 673 00:50:13,119 --> 00:50:18,400 » That's kind of another early warning is they put the chickens out and then they 674 00:50:16,559 --> 00:50:21,680 want to they want to see if they get infected by West Nile. It's like their 675 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:25,920 control, you know, if they're catching the wild birds. So they have this 676 00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:27,839 chicken flock um to see if they if it get transferred. 677 00:50:26,559 --> 00:50:33,440 » They're just getting blood draws all the time. the um the droplet size is another 678 00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:39,520 key factor that it it's not killing anything bigger than a mosquito because 679 00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:43,200 of the droplet size. So um and again these have been looked at extensively by 680 00:50:41,599 --> 00:50:48,640 you know independent uh university studies and research studies and I want 681 00:50:45,599 --> 00:50:51,920 to tell you know all the product all the products are US EPA registered the 682 00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:57,359 Illinois Department of Agriculture registered so this is you know this is 683 00:50:54,319 --> 00:51:03,040 uh it's not against the law what we're doing it's 100% approved by uh you know 684 00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:06,000 the state of Illinois the the federal government 685 00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:10,160 » and and we thought all of people that are applying behind these products are 686 00:51:07,839 --> 00:51:15,359 they specific training. They have to pass tests to be able to be applicators. 687 00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:20,160 We have a great um resource. Clark is one of the best training institutions 688 00:51:17,599 --> 00:51:27,200 for mosquito applications in the country. Um and then as applied by label 689 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:30,319 directions, the CDC and EPA both have stated in what they call the joint 690 00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:33,599 statement that it poses no undue risk to humans or the environment the way that 691 00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:39,440 we do this. to give to give you an example. So we're using half that shot 692 00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:44,720 glass half an ounce per acre 10 15 miles from here on corn and 693 00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:49,440 soybean and decal county and in Kane County they're using four to six pounds 694 00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:53,920 per acre of a much much hotter product called Durban. So um the farmer when you 695 00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:57,280 drive by and he's got that tank behind the tractor he gets he's working in his 696 00:51:55,839 --> 00:52:00,640 field they weigh you know he gets a pass. what we're doing is in a 697 00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:05,599 residential area and I think it's just very visible with this aha you know I 698 00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:10,079 you know there's the smoking gun. So um there's just not a there's not enough on 699 00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:13,359 the truck product to really you know to to cause a fatality. 700 00:52:14,079 --> 00:52:24,559 So, um talk a little bit more about um that idea you touched on which is a lot 701 00:52:22,079 --> 00:52:28,400 of people maybe do um have those companies that come and spray and they 702 00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:32,000 do it maybe on like a calendar like a regular basis throughout the summer that 703 00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:34,720 kind of thing. Talk a little more maybe about the 704 00:52:33,359 --> 00:52:38,079 differences between what you're doing from the surveillance to the you 705 00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:40,800 mentioned the product is different >> correct? 706 00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:44,559 » Yeah. Well, that that's just uh it's spraying on the foliage and on the grass 707 00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:48,000 and then you know the grass gets cut and it and it dries on there and it's you 708 00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:54,000 know you got your fingers crossed the mosquitoes are going to land on that in 709 00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:57,680 your yard. Um and again it's it it's gone as soon as it rains and it's you 710 00:52:55,760 --> 00:53:01,839 know that biodegrades rapidly too. >> I would make the the biggest point is 711 00:52:59,599 --> 00:53:05,359 that they're not coming out to see if there's anything warranted. They're 712 00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:10,319 doing it because it's the third of the month. And when we we work with 713 00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:14,319 surveillance, so everything that we do is data driven. This is prescription 714 00:53:12,319 --> 00:53:18,000 applications. We are not doing this because it's the third Thursday. It's 715 00:53:16,079 --> 00:53:21,599 just because, you know, it's part of the contract. That's not how we operate. We 716 00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:25,280 look at the science. We have the opportunity to do it when it's called 717 00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:30,319 for, but it's not something that is just a routine operation. And you know, it 718 00:53:28,319 --> 00:53:34,640 can be comforting for people to feel like they're getting something done. But 719 00:53:32,079 --> 00:53:38,079 we also had a a product several years ago. I don't know if anybody remembers 720 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:41,760 the mosquito magnet where people were literally baiting mosquitoes to come 721 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:45,520 into their yard so that they could trap them in these devices. And it was very 722 00:53:43,839 --> 00:53:48,240 popular for a short period of time, but all it kept doing was bringing more 723 00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:51,760 mosquitoes to people's yards. >> And it was the worst kind of it was the 724 00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:55,280 gra it was the gravit mosquito. gravitate females that you know they 725 00:53:53,839 --> 00:53:59,920 were because of the sense of smell they were going there you know to the lights 726 00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:04,079 it what it is is it runs on propane and it mosquitoes are attracted to carbon 727 00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:08,160 dioxide when we exhale we exhale carbon dioxide 728 00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:13,520 » and they they're attracted to to that to that smell and so you're bringing in the 729 00:54:11,119 --> 00:54:18,160 infected mosquitoes into your yard but I think another good way to look at what 730 00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:22,480 the you know again it's the third of the month or it's it's you know it's it's 731 00:54:20,079 --> 00:54:26,640 the every Thursday I'm going to do this this spring is that takes the entire 732 00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:32,319 integrated pest management what we call integrated mosquito management theory 733 00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:36,400 which the you know the state of Illinois the public department of public health 734 00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:42,160 the citizens for conservation everyone you know really refers to as that's the 735 00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:45,680 on best practices we're we're doing this integrative this pest management 736 00:54:43,839 --> 00:54:50,720 approach that takes that and throws it out the window they're doing it just 737 00:54:47,359 --> 00:54:53,839 because it's Thursday and you might have people over on Friday night, there's a 738 00:54:52,240 --> 00:54:58,000 beer garden Friday night, so let's go spray. So that takes that whether, you 739 00:54:56,559 --> 00:55:03,040 know, whether there's, you know, the insects are present or not. So that, you 740 00:55:00,720 --> 00:55:06,880 know, is kind of the anti-thesis to the whole entire, you know, what we call our 741 00:55:05,359 --> 00:55:11,599 environmental mosquitoes management program. So the EMM. 742 00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:14,559 » So a couple more questions related to water and then and then I have kind of a 743 00:55:13,119 --> 00:55:17,920 final question. So if there are other questions or concerns you want to pass 744 00:55:16,079 --> 00:55:22,400 forward, now's the time to do it. Um, but let me ask this. um very 745 00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:28,480 specifically in Milton Township. Um when it comes to um bodies of water, are are 746 00:55:26,240 --> 00:55:32,160 bodies of water like Lake Ellen treated with the water side? 747 00:55:29,839 --> 00:55:36,880 » The lake itself is is not if it has wave action and it has a defined shoreline. 748 00:55:34,240 --> 00:55:41,119 No, but so more of a cattail marsh, a roadside ditch, um like did you're 749 00:55:39,599 --> 00:55:45,599 driving home tonight just wherever there's ponding where the water would 750 00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:50,960 sit there between seven to 10 days, you know, or even four or five days in the 751 00:55:47,359 --> 00:55:55,599 summer. Um, so it's really more of a standing stagnant water. Um, another we 752 00:55:53,760 --> 00:56:00,240 have, you know, a nice commuter train that runs right through Glenn in the 753 00:55:56,880 --> 00:56:05,839 middle of town. That, uh, that train needs to be on a level plane. So trains 754 00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:09,280 don't do good on, you know, you know, really short hills. So when they're 755 00:56:07,839 --> 00:56:15,200 built, they're built to handle that tonnage on of the train on a level on a 756 00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:20,000 so it doesn't get the friction the train can work and along. So they have to 757 00:56:17,119 --> 00:56:24,640 build that up on grade. So along that train track is a little red ribbon of 758 00:56:22,559 --> 00:56:27,920 standing dish line throughout your whole town and and from here going all the way 759 00:56:26,319 --> 00:56:32,559 into Chicago. And that will sit there and breed mosquitoes all summer long. 760 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:35,760 Drive down, you know, uh the interstate right now. What's in the middle of the 761 00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:39,040 road because they had to build the road up on grade so the water would drain 762 00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:43,200 off. There's a ribbon of water, you know, in the middle and on both, you 763 00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:47,280 know, east and west sides of 88. So that and that will just breed mosquitoes all 764 00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:50,640 summer long. That's part of the tollway. Nobody's treating it. That's all just 765 00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:55,119 left to have. It's dangerous to get out there obviously. 766 00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:56,640 » Pen the prair path as well. The prairie path was a 767 00:56:55,920 --> 00:57:00,880 » it was a train. >> It was a train track. Correct. 768 00:56:59,119 --> 00:57:04,799 » Is it? And that's even worse because the the overgrowth the brush overgrowth on 769 00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:08,400 that I I've walked on you know everybody's been on you know most people 770 00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:12,240 have been on it and you know so that the the ditch on the left and right hand 771 00:57:10,240 --> 00:57:16,960 side are breeding mosquitoes and they have every they have the heavy foliage 772 00:57:13,839 --> 00:57:20,799 to feed on the on the on the plant life on the brush and then the birds come in 773 00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:23,520 there and you know the whole life cycle is going on. So 774 00:57:22,079 --> 00:57:27,680 » is there a way for people to kind of call in a standing water? 775 00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:29,440 » Absolutely. We're we're very big on we have an 800 number. Do we have a Clark 776 00:57:29,119 --> 00:57:33,359 portal? >> The best way to do that is there's a 777 00:57:31,119 --> 00:57:38,079 website called clarkportal.com and it's cl a r ke. It will also be an 778 00:57:36,319 --> 00:57:42,400 opportunity that people can use that to get their questions answered. It can be 779 00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:47,599 a two-way communication where you can ask a question very specific to your own 780 00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:52,000 address. Um it fulfills a lot of the the um services that we offer throughout the 781 00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:55,359 township and it's available all the time. 782 00:57:53,119 --> 00:57:59,119 » 2008 that's we find a lot of our new sources that we find new sources that 783 00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:02,160 way as well. So the the people come in, it's one of the first our people sh 784 00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:05,359 Yeah, I've got mosquitoes are terrible in my yard. Well, tell me about what's 785 00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:09,040 the first thing I when I talk to someone, it's what's going on next is, 786 00:58:07,599 --> 00:58:12,000 you know, is there an unopened swimming pool? The neighbor, does he have a 787 00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:15,119 swimming pool that he hasn't opened all summer? Well, that's, you know, where 788 00:58:14,079 --> 00:58:18,880 that's a big source of where the mosquitoes are coming from. There's 08 789 00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:22,960 when we had the housing crisis, you know, not so much Glenn Ellen, but Glenn 790 00:58:20,799 --> 00:58:26,319 Ellen's a pretty uh mature community, but the Planefield, Illinois, and the 791 00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:29,920 Shorewood and that. Well, there's a whole subdivision of of house 792 00:58:28,079 --> 00:58:34,559 foundations that were never, you know, that that everybody walked away from 793 00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:37,440 because, you know, because the housing, you know, market seized up. All those 794 00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:40,640 house foundations were breeding mosquitoes. 795 00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:45,119 But the abandoned swimming pools are a big one, too. We call the 800, you know, 796 00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:48,400 you get on the portal. We will come out under your program. We will come out and 797 00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:51,520 treat an unopen swimming pool. We'll throw the tablets in there and treat 798 00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:56,880 that standing water. >> And that's the other water question. um 799 00:58:54,480 --> 00:59:01,760 those tablets when they are treated in the um drains or anything else how is 800 00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:07,359 there is there risk that that will enter like the water system the water table 801 00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:14,079 how does that impact the water system >> so that again it's a very it's the the 802 00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:16,960 laral control is something it's it's a a gut it's a 803 00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:19,040 » it's a naturally occurring soil bacterium 804 00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:21,839 » we would ingest it would pass right through us 805 00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:26,079 » it's this is used in drinking water in many countries it's not an issue and it 806 00:59:24,079 --> 00:59:31,920 breaks down over time. It provides a level of control that is designed to 807 00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:36,400 release quickly to immediately cut down all mosquitoes and then releases over 808 00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:40,000 time as well. Um but it does not provide any I mean it is a a what was it a rum 809 00:59:38,799 --> 00:59:45,839 factory that they discovered. >> It's a spiny sugar um molecule that's so 810 00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:50,720 it's a sugar a sugar molecule. Um that water is then going back into the storm 811 00:59:48,079 --> 00:59:56,079 water too. So that's being recycled into the the Glenbard wastewater treatment 812 00:59:53,599 --> 01:00:00,480 plant and they're testing that water for you for everything now especially since 813 00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:04,079 you know 911 they're testing it for botula you know any type of terrace 814 01:00:02,079 --> 01:00:10,160 attack too. So that's that's tested continuously and it's you know on the 815 01:00:07,359 --> 01:00:13,119 label itself it it is certified for use in in in this wastewater treatment 816 01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:17,520 plant. So it's >> it's it's it's at a you know at a very 817 01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:21,920 very low level. want to, you know, just I I get kind of asked this all the time. 818 01:00:20,079 --> 01:00:25,760 Every time we put gas in our car, we're exposing oursel to a known carcinogen, 819 01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:30,400 and that's a cancer-causing agent, and it's just at the low, it's at the level 820 01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:34,720 we do that at is not harmful to to humans. So, um you know, people just 821 01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:42,559 kind of jump the gun, you know, aha, this is, you know, uh um you know, a 822 01:00:39,359 --> 01:00:46,960 carcinogen and this is a naturally occurring bacterium. So it's it's 823 01:00:44,799 --> 01:00:50,559 nothing like gasoline or anything like that that we actually breathe the fumes 824 01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:55,440 and get in our you know spill on our fans when we put gas in our car. 825 01:00:53,920 --> 01:01:01,839 We do that every day. So it's you know it's um it's just at what level do we 826 01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:04,880 you know do we the level of exposure is extremely low. 827 01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:08,480 » Well let me ask my last question which you've touched on in terms of um people 828 01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:13,440 can address standing water in their yards. Um, what other practices can 829 01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:18,240 individuals do to maybe protect themselves or or um, you've got some 830 01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:24,640 other practicing that everybody should be doing is using 831 01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:28,319 EPA approved mosquito repellent. And I'm just going to say there there are a lot 832 01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:31,839 of of urban legends about what works. There's 833 01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:36,240 a lot of homemade remedies. You know, there's I've heard everything from split 834 01:01:34,319 --> 01:01:40,880 Tik Toks that show Listerine on your deck, which does absolutely nothing to, 835 01:01:38,799 --> 01:01:46,960 you know, people swore by skin so soft in the 80s. And right now there are good 836 01:01:43,839 --> 01:01:52,240 options for people to use that can fit every lifestyle from the tried andrue, 837 01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:59,119 you know, deep woods off which uses DE to picaridin to IR 3535. Even oil of 838 01:01:56,319 --> 01:02:04,000 lemon eucalyptus is recognized and recommended by the US EPA for protection 839 01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:08,880 and they look at two different things efficacy and longevity for that impact. 840 01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:13,200 So there's opportunities for people to do whatever makes them feel comfortable. 841 01:02:11,119 --> 01:02:16,880 You know there's but that is the most critical thing. Obviously you want to 842 01:02:14,799 --> 01:02:20,640 avoid being outdoors at dusk and dawn when mosquitoes are most active 843 01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:24,559 especially mosquitoes in this area. You would want to um if you are out outdoors 844 01:02:22,799 --> 01:02:29,119 during that time, wear light colored clothing that covers your arms and legs. 845 01:02:27,359 --> 01:02:33,200 It's hard to do that when it's 95 degrees in the middle of July, but that 846 01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:38,400 does help uh protect you against mosquito exposure. Fixing screens that 847 01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:42,559 might be ripped on your door, like not leaving an open door, a jar like from 848 01:02:40,799 --> 01:02:46,480 especially from things like the garage during the summer because mosquitoes can 849 01:02:44,799 --> 01:02:50,319 harbor inside the garage and make it into the house. I mean, there's a reason 850 01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:54,480 why the Cullex mosquito, the West Nile virus mosquito is called the household 851 01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:58,000 mosquito. It does like to be around where people are. So, the more that you 852 01:02:56,319 --> 01:03:01,920 can keep it outdoors and keep yourself indoors, the best you can possibly do. 853 01:03:00,319 --> 01:03:06,240 Things like um if you're sitting outdoors, put a fan on you. Um a box fan 854 01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:10,559 works really well. Mosquitoes have a hard time flying in higher wind speeds. 855 01:03:09,119 --> 01:03:14,799 You know, certainly you want to be able to, you know, be able to enjoy your 856 01:03:13,119 --> 01:03:18,319 outdoors and that's one of the reasons why nuisance mosquito control is so 857 01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:22,960 important. It has an economic impact. You know, people began to really enjoy 858 01:03:20,319 --> 01:03:26,079 dining alresco in the area. Uh we want to make sure that that's able to 859 01:03:24,079 --> 01:03:30,079 continue. But the more that you can take your own personal protections to protect 860 01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:36,000 against mosquitoborn diseases, the safer everyone is going to be. And I I would 861 01:03:33,119 --> 01:03:41,760 say just the containers around the house, the you know the wheelbarrow, the 862 01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:45,680 the tire off the rim, the kitty pool, the canoe, the rowboat, just simply turn 863 01:03:43,839 --> 01:03:51,280 it over. That is going to really move the needle on on, you know, the mosquito 864 01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:55,039 production. And obvious, you know, an unopened swimming pool is not a good 865 01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:59,119 thing to do that, you know, that type of that type of structure. Any man-made 866 01:03:56,640 --> 01:04:02,319 structure like that, cloud gutters. Did I notice on one of your slides rain 867 01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:04,559 barrels? >> Correct. 868 01:04:02,799 --> 01:04:08,480 » Is that an issue? >> Yeah, if they're, you know, they're 869 01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:11,280 right now it's not because it's getting cycled through, but in July and August. 870 01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:13,280 Yeah. >> Yeah. 871 01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:17,440 Yeah. >> Well, and I I have a rain barrel that 872 01:04:15,599 --> 01:04:20,559 never seems to have the grip that that's the first thing that rips on it. That's 873 01:04:19,039 --> 01:04:25,359 the first thing that ends up having a gap between the lid and the cover. I 874 01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:29,079 love using my rain barrel, but I also treat my rain barrel. 875 01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:36,400 So, I hope this was educational and 876 01:04:34,079 --> 01:04:40,480 informative and you probably learn more about this process and thought you would 877 01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:45,359 know and we're going to make sure that u all these questions and concerns are get 878 01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:50,079 some followup but if you have more um I you know we have a Milton app that you 879 01:04:47,839 --> 01:04:54,880 can download that is a good way to forward any questions or concerns and 880 01:04:52,079 --> 01:05:00,160 then um Clark also has resources for the experts. So I If people have individual 881 01:04:58,079 --> 01:05:05,359 questions or location based questions, certainly I think our experts can help. 882 01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:10,520 Um, take a look at this beautiful map. Some cookies. Thank you so much for 883 01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:10,520 coming.