Articles on West Nile Virus and Pesticides
Open Letter from Save the Frogs to Santa Clara County Vector Control Opposing Spraying, 8/22/2022
09/8-2222_Save-the-Frogs_Letter.pdf
EPA Medical Toxicologist Report on Etofenphrox
193825_mt_Etofenprox_Technical.pdf
Zenivex E4 Was Withdrawn By The Manufacturer in the state of New York
The state of New York received notification from the manufacturer Wellmark International to withdraw their application for Zenivex E4 (the same pesticide they are spraying here in our state) because they were unable to prove that it was safe. Documents obtained by New York Health Department state, “However, the ecological technical review resulted in unmitigated concerns with respect to data gaps and risks to aquatic species.”
Pesticide_Withdrawn_by_Manufacturer.pdf
Stop the Zika Fraud
http://www.healthyalternativestopesticides.com/uncategorized/exposing-the-zika-fraud/
An Open Letter by Concerned Physicians and Scientists: Stop the Indiscriminate “Friendly Fire” Pesticide Spraying
http://www.stopwestnilesprayingnow.org/Concerned_Phys_Sci_WNV.pdf
Stop West Nile Spraying Now, Support Effective Alternatives to Adulticide Spraying
Oppose Ineffective and Unsafe Adulticiding
http://www.stopwestnilesprayingnow.org/?PesticideFacts.htm
Pesticide Exposure Linked to ADHD Risk
http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/news/20100820/pesticide-exposure-linked-to-adhd-risk
The Safety Of Inert Components In Pesticides Questioned
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/08/15/the-safety-of-inert-components-in-pesticides-questioned.aspx#!
West Nile Virus and Mosquito Control
http://www.stopwestnilesprayingnow.org/WNv&mosqctrl.pdf
“West Nile Virus – Does it Exist?”
http://davidcrowe.ca/SciHealthEnv/200109-WNV-Mercola.pdf
Birds Fall From The Sky In Michigan
http://survivalbackpack.us/birds-fall-sky-mich/
California Government West Nile Virus website (Latest West Nile Virus activity in California) http://www.westnile.ca.gov/
The Safe-Dose Myth
http://www.stopwestnilesprayingnow.org/SafeDoseMyth.html
Overkill: Why Pesticide Spraying for WNV May Cause More Harm than Good
http://www.meepi.org/wnv/overkillma.htm
Myths about WNV and Pesticides
http://www.stopwestnilesprayingnow.org/DavisMyths.pdf
Blowing the Whistle on West Nile
http://reliableanswers.com/med/west_nile_virus.asp
Pesticides, Not WNV, are the Leading Cause of Bird Deaths
http://reliableanswers.com/med/west_nile_virus.asp
Why Are Bats Dying
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/05/01/why-are-bats-dying.aspx
West Nile Virus Weakening
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-09-10/news/0909090102_1_west-nile-virus-immune-globulin
ABC’s of toxicology; Basic Definitions
www.stopwestnilesprayingnow.org/ToxicologyABCs.pdf
Are Pesticides the Cure or the Cause for WNV
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/06/14/pesticides-west-nile.aspx
Prevail Against Pests without Pesticides…
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/12/26/Prevail-Against-Pests-without-Pesticides.aspx
Impacts of mosquito spraying on monarch butterfly
Karen Oberhauser, a renowned scientist and researcher, has published two studies on the impacts of mosquito spraying on monarchs. Most mosquito control district use a variety of different pyrethroids in mosquito abatement efforts, and these can be sprayed as ULV (ultra low volume, or aerosol) treatments, or as barrier treatments. The ULV treatments affect insects as they’re flying, and the barrier treatments remain on leaves, providing a barrier to mosquitoes that harbor in wooded or shrubby areas during the day and come out at dawn or dusk. While it is generally thought that the formulations of permethrin used for mosquito control do not pose unreasonable risks to wildlife or the environment (U.S. EPA 2003), our study is one of the few that has examined the nontarget effects of barrier applications of permethrin on foliage-inhabiting arthropods, like monarchs. Both studies sowed impacts on monarch larvae AND adults, with leaves from the barrier treatments resulting in higher mortality than control groups up to 3 weeks after application. The PDFs can be accessed from her website (click on the publications link)
The references to these papers:
Oberhauser, K.S, S. Manweiler, R. Lelich, M. Blank, R. Batalden, A. De Anda. 2009. Impacts of ULV resmethrin applications on non-target insects. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
25:83–93.
Oberhauser, K. S., S. J. Brinda, S. Weaver, R. D. Moon, S. A. Manweiler, N. Read. 2006.
Growth and survival of monarch butterflies (Lepidoptera: Danaidae) after exposure to permethrin barrier treatments. Environ. Entomol. 35 (6): 1626-1634.
Additionally, many of the ppt and poster presentations from the Minnesota Monarch Meeting are posted on the meeting website.
