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Residents urge end to helicopter mosquito spraying as Mundelein adopts Bird City USA resolution
Summary
Residents told trustees that helicopter larvicide applications have sharply reduced backyard bird species and urged the village to stop the spraying; the board adopted a Bird City USA designation the same night and trustees and staff said the beautification committee will research habitat measures and spraying alternatives.
Eileen Grochowski, a Mundelein resident, read a written message from neighbors and addressed the board on Aug. 11 to call for an end to helicopter-based mosquito abatement applications she said were harming birds and insects. “There is an absolute correlation between the chemical spraying and the loss of all bird life in my yard,” Grochowski said, reading text from neighbors Carrie and Claude Garoche. Grochowski told trustees that before the first spraying she documented more than 36 species of birds in her yard; she said that…
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