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Will mosquito pesticide hurt butterflies?

Frequently asked questions about butterflies
Mosquito spray is essential to prevent diseases spread by mosquitos. In the US, mosquito spraying has undoubtedly prevented illness and deaths due to West Nile Virus. If you know that your area will be sprayed for mosquitos, take a sheet or other cloth or plastic and cover your host plants before the spraying begins and for about an hour after your street has been sprayed. If the mosqito truck is not close to your yard, it will not hurt the butterflies in your yard.
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What is a pesticide?

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A pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended to prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate any pest. Pests can be insects, mice and other animals, unwanted plants (weeds), fungi, or micro-organisms like bacteria and viruses. Though often thought to refer only to insecticides, the term pesticide also applies to herbicides, fungicides, and other substances used to control pests.
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How can I get my butterflies to mate?

Frequently asked questions about butterflies
ANSWER: Dr. Jaret Daniels demonstrated this procedure to us. We took these photos while hand-pairing Monarchs at our farm. Please look at our Hand Pairing page.
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Is the mosquito spray dangerous to butterflies? Do they kill good insects and birds?

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Depending on the type of chemical used, the spray might kill some individuals in certain species of butterflies or caterpillars. However, any adverse effects on butterfly populations will most likely be very localized and temporary. When the chemical is applied as directed, adverse effects on populations of non-target animals, like mammals, birds, and fish, are actually absent or very minor. However, some insects (for example, honey bees) could be killed by mosquito sprays.
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If I put pesticide on my lawn, will it hurt local frogs?

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Well...putting poison on your lawn probably isn't the best idea if you want happy frog neighbors... Come to think of it, if you already have frogs on your lawn, chances are a lot of you bug problem should already be fixed! However, in answer, yes- most likely pesticide will hurt the frogs. Further reading is available on the subject in the FROGLOG (Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force) newsletter: The Ghost of Pesticides Past?.
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Can I get HIV from a mosquito?

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NO! HIV can not be gotten from mosquitoes, Mosquitoes does not drop or inject anything other than the saliva that helps in lubrication. Thus, it is not true that mosquitoes can carry infected blood from an infected person to another person, once a mosquito feeds it does not regurgitate. . REF: HOW AIDS CAN BE TRANSMITTED There is a possibility of becoming infected with HIV if you share injecting equipment with someone who has the virus.
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Will it hurt?

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Most patients describe minimal itching and burning for 5-15 minutes following sclerotherapy, but you will leave the office free of discomfort. You will feel the prick of the needle being inserted into the skin. However, we use the tiniest needles possible to reduce the discomfort felt by our patients. If you are very concerned about pain, please talk to Dr. Walrath. They will be more than willing to discuss some possible solutions.
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No, these two exams are not painful. For the most part, patients are given medicine to sleep through the colonoscopy, so they won't feel anything. Sigmoidoscopy doesn't require medicine to make the patient sleepy, so some patients find the air pressure to be uncomfortable. Air is pumped into the cleaned-out colon so it will hold its normal size and doctors can get the best pictures. While it may be slightly uncomfortable, it should not hurt.
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Johnny Jackson's World Famous Texas Body Art Tattoo Studio
Yup - they do. Some more than others. Some people are more or less sensitive than others, so there is no way to really say how bad a piercing is going to feel to you. But, the point is this - could you handle a really bad pain for 30 seconds? Well, most piercings last even less time than that, and most piercings are not that bad. Yes, they hurt. But it's over so fast, you really don't have much time to think about it.
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Will there be butterflies?

Student Greenhouse Project of Michigan State University
Maybe, maybe not. The University has indicated they would like the butterflies for their attraction at the future south campus greenhouse they have planned. Butterflies are expensive and high maintenance, because they require rotating beds of nectar plants to keep a supply of those in bloom, which we may not be able to do.
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The Key West Butterfly & Nature Conservatory
A butterfly sees its surroundings through its compound eyes, these are a complex mosaic of tiny lenses. They are able to detect motion and a limited number of different colors - predominantly red, orange and yellow. Butterflies are capable of detecting ultraviolet light, which is invisible to humans, suggesting that they may well see the color of flowers in a quite a different way than we do.
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Will the Mosquito Magnet? capture bees, moths, butterflies, ladybugs or other beneficial insects?

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No. Blood seeking insects have receptors in their maxillary palps (mouth parts) that sense carbon dioxide. Non-blood seeking insects, without these receptors, are not attracted.
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What's With all the Butterflies?

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Good question! About eighteen months ago I went through a bit of a bad patch in life (as you do!). When I started feeling better, I seemed to see butterflies wherever I went - in garden, new job, peoples clothes etc. To me they symbolise a change in my life, positivity, freedom and happiness.
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What are butterflies in your stomach?

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Butterflies in the stomach are really just those nervous, fluttery feelings you may experience before a big math test...
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How long do butterflies live?

Frequently asked questions about butterflies
A butterfly is a butterfly whether is is an egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, or adult. In the same way an 8 year old person is human, a caterpillar is a butterfly.An adult butterfly, if not killed by a windshield, predator, or disease, will live from a few weeks to about nine months, depending upon the species and time of year.Some butterflies overwinter as adults, such as Monarchs migrating to Mexico and California and Mouring Cloaks which overwinter as adults.
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Do adult butterflies grow?

Frequently asked questions about butterflies
ANSWER: Within the same species, size of a chrysalis or pupa depends upon whether it is a male or female as well as how much it ate as a larva or caterpillar. Sometimes less food is availabe for the caterpillar, such as in spring or in drought. Sometimes butterflies are diseased which causes caterpillars to eat less. Photos and more information is at Chrysalis Size.
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Which butterflies eat artificial diet?

Frequently asked questions about butterflies
ANSWER: Painted Lady butterflies are often raised on artificial diet. Other species are raised on artificial diet (ad) in some circumstances or at some facilities, but not very often. Many times other species will not develop properly on ad unless it is specifically developed for that species. Some species, such as Buckeyes, will grow and become adults on Painted Lady artificial diet but they will be smaller than normal and a few generations later they will become sterile.
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How do butterflies go to the bathroom?

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Adult butterflies do not go to the bathroom. Caterpillars do all of the eating and almost continually defecate. Occasionally adult butterflies drink so much they must emit a fine liquid spray from the tip of their abdomen but it is almost pure water.
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How do butterflies fly?

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Butterflies have strong muscles in their thorax which force their wings up and down on a fulcrum basis. They actually go in a slanted figure 8 motion that propels them forward through the air in the same principle as an airplane.
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Where do butterflies go when it rains?

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Butterflies hide when it rains. They usually go to the same places they do for the night. Some butterflies hide under large leaves, some crawl down into dense leaves or under rocks, and some just sit head down on grass stems or bushes with wings held tightly. If the rains are exceptionally hard or of long duration many of the butterflies become tattered or die.
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What's In a Pesticide?

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HTML: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:XyGqMbed3cEJ:www.noharm.org/details.cfm%3FID%3D864%26type%3Ddocument+ATSDR,+Interagency+MCS+Paper&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 And so on and so forth. I have had a lot of complaints come across my desk. Don't let the government try to fool you into thinking they are using safer products. Just stop to think for a moment about all the recalls of drugs and pesticides . . . the very products that had been touted as safe.
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Should I use the same pesticide over and over again?

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No, insects, mites and disease organisms can develop resistance to a specific pesticide if that product is used over and over again. Resistance can eventually lead to product failure and the creation of a "superbug". This is one of the reasons we carry such a wide assortment of plant protection chemicals. By offering alternatives we can create spray programs to disrupt the target pests ability to build resistance.
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What is the 'pesticide treadmill'?

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first, chemical pest control seems cheap and effective, but pesticides tend not to work in the long run. Pest inevitably develop resistance to the very chemicals aimed at them. Because the natural enemies that once kept the pest under control are usually destroyed as well, the pest multiply to become threats - a phenomenon known as resurgence. In addition, insects never before considered a problem because natural enemies kept their numbers at low levels may emerge as pests.
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QUESTION: How do I find out what pesticide is being used nearby?

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ANSWER: Sonoma County Agricultural Commissioner's Office has a Records Request form that would need to be completed by the requestor. Records for much of this use is available at our office. Contact our office for additional information and to obtain copies of the request form.
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