What is Bloomfield Township doing about West Nile Virus?
Bloomfield Township has been proactively working to protect our residents against the WNV since 2003. Currently, the Township West Nile Virus Management Program addresses the WNV problem through an integrated pest management program that consists of identifying and prioritizing approximately 1900 breeding sites (e.g. catch basins), then sampling and treating those public areas of the Bloomfield Township found to be high priority. The most important step in controlling the virus is to prevent the mosquitoes from becoming adults. In order to kill the pre-adult larvae, we treat prioritized catch basins, which have been identified as the principle breeding sites for mosquitoes in urban and suburban environments, with a natural insecticide called Bacillus sphaericus (BS). BS, known by the trade name Vectolex, only affects mosquito and black fly larvae. It is approved by the EPA and has been shown to be highly effective in killing mosquito larvae. The Township program begins in June and cont
