{"id":59031,"date":"2019-06-25T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=59031"},"modified":"2019-06-25T14:52:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T18:52:54","slug":"mosquito-larvicide-control-to-begin-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/06\/mosquito-larvicide-control-to-begin-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosquito larvicide control to begin next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beginning Thursday, July 4, Brock University will be conducting its annual larviciding program <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">under the authority of Niagara Region\u2019s medical officer of health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The program, which will continue until Sept. 27, is used to control larval mosquitoes and to prevent <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the possible spread of West Nile virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The larvicide Mosquiron will be applied by direct hand application into catch basins at Brock University-owned and leased properties in Niagara.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All larvicides will be applied by licensed applicators through the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For details on the exact locations and dates of treatments, contact Manager of Grounds Services John Dick at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:jdick@brocku.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">jdick@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or x4435, or Facilities Management customer service at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:fm@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fm@brocku.ca<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0or x3717.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning Thursday, July 4, Brock University will be conducting its annual larviciding program under the authority of Niagara Region\u2019s medical officer of health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[53,319,3149,320,617,3200,8011],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59032,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59031\/revisions\/59032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}