Pursuant to 333 CMR 13.03, any private property owner or individual in lawful control of a property may request exclusion from wide area applications of pesticides. This includes applications performed by the Mosquito Control Project/District that may provide services in your city/town or any area in the Commonwealth. Requests must be made to the Department of Agricultural Resources in accordance with 333 CMR13.03 and will go into effect fourteen (14) days from the date the request is made. All exclusion requests expire on December 31st of the calendar year in which it was made.
*Adulticides are pesticides designed to control adult flying insects. Mosquito adulticide treatments are Ultra Low Volume (ULV) and are usually applied using truck based sprayers. These applications provide immediate short term relief from pestiferous mosquitoes and/or mosquitoes that carry disease.
*Larvicides prevent adult mosquito emergence by targeting mosquitos in their immature larval stage. Granular and liquid larvicides are usually applied by hand or aircraft directly to stagnant water containing these immature mosquitoes. The majority of District larvicide applications to wetlands in Massachusetts are made using naturally occurring bacteria such as Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti). Applications of larvicides can effectively reduce future area-wide adulticide applications.
Pursuant to 333 CMR 13.03(3), I understand that requests for exclusions or opt outs shall not be honored if: