NEWS

Massachusetts is starting roadside spraying for mosquitoes. Why is this a bad thing for us and for Six Ponds?
Yes, there are threats from mosquitoes, but there are much larger threats from indiscriminate pesticide spraying, and the tragic-and-unbelievable-but-very-real tanking of entire populations of our pollinators. The pesticides used DO kill indiscriminately. They also negatively affect the critters that eat the poisoned insects, AND the pesticides are such that they can and do kill other innocent things, like hummingbirds and amphibians, plus a whole lot more. This is heartbreaking!

“Organic” sprays? They kill just as indiscriminately. The carriers that affix the oils to plants smother amphibians and beneficial insects, including bees. It is absolutely *not* just the ticks and mosquitoes that are affected. And many of these pesticides are particularly harmful to aquatic life and the health of our ponds.
Over time we are also killing the mosquitoes’ predators . . . including hummers and other birds, dragonflies, bats, etc. So by spraying we are actually exacerbating the problem.

We CAN opt out from the Massachusetts pesticide spray. Six Ponds highly recommends you take a look. And opt OUT!

For individuals:

https://www.mass.gov/forms/request-for-exclusion-from-wide-area-application-of-pesticides