Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad A few years ago we stayed off property at a house in Kissimee and were swarmed every night by mosquitos. It was unbelievable! We would send out a sacrifice who's job it was to open and close the door as quickly as possible while the rest of us ran in. Then it was search and destroy for the next 10 minutes. We have stayed on property since and encountered virtually no mosquitos. How do they do it? I have never seen any insect control trucks or anything and there is standing water everywhere. Is it Magic?
Originally Posted By magnet You've heard of drill, baby, drill? Well, Disney's answer is spray, baby, spray! (BTW, pun intended)
Originally Posted By matthewdort They use spray trucks in the middle of the night. I live in the South and that's standard procedure for any decent municipality here. I'm sure it's very toxic, but it works well.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom There are mosquitos at Walt Disney World. Yesterday while taking Disney Transportation from the Boardwalk Resort to Downtown Disney and someone on the bus claimed he got two mosquito bites while eating "inside" Fulton's Crab House. Also there was a swarm of mosquitos dancing in the lights by the bus stop at the Boardwalk Resort. Yes Disney does spray a lot.
Originally Posted By magnet Disney really does not want the bad PR of someone claiming that they got West Nile while visiting the resort. Especially now with the economy the way it is....
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom We have been walking a lot between DTD and our hotel and have not noticed a problem with mosquitoes. Maybe this year Orlando is not having a big problem with mosquitoes?
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 And with all the flowers at WDW, how many bees to you see? Now if they could just get rid of the cockroaches.
Originally Posted By -em I've never noticed the skeeters as bad as the past week or so- I worked MNSSHP twice in the last week(ish) and got 5+ bites the first night and 20+ last monday... I worked the party tonight and so far havent noticed any new ones but its still early...
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^Perhaps Disney is cutting back spraying as another cost-cutting move ... after all, guests do expect bugs in Florida, right? Where's Lee Cockerell when you need some Disney spin? Oh yeah, he's promoting his new book.
Originally Posted By leobloom Sure the spray is toxic and probably has negative effects on everything living, but remember, Disney's concerned about the environment! "Environmentality", or some crap like that, right? What a bunch of hucksters.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "And with all the flowers at WDW, how many bees to you see?" I don't know about WDW, but at DL there are a ton of bees on the flowers. I noticed over the summer that there were pretty flower beds all over the place, so I decided to take a couple pictures of them. After focusing on the beds for only a few seconds, I quickly realized that they were moving constantly, as there were bees all over them. I would say that there was probably one bee for every 3 or 4 flowers. They stayed hidden in the planters really well, and I never noticed them anywhere else in the parks. I'm sure if you look closely at WDW you'll see the same thing.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt Both my DH & DD have BEE Sting allergies..at The Flower show @ EPCOT this May there were BEES EVERYWHERE!!!...TRUST ME!!!...
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy << Sure the spray is toxic and probably has negative effects on everything living >> I remember as a kid when we used to ride our bikes about 20 feet behind the bug spraying truck as it drove through the neighborhood. We'd follow it everywhere! No negative effects here! LOL
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 Honest, the only place I've seen bees is at the rose garden between the Castle and the Plaza restaurant. Maybe a couple on the Rose walk in EPCOT. Maybe you're seeing bees because they cutback on paying people to personally polinate the flowers.
Originally Posted By -em >> No negative effects here! LOL<< Ummm there is so much that could be said... hehehe
Originally Posted By magnet Hey, at least Sport does surface from time to time from the World Events abyss.
Originally Posted By kennect Sport, We did the same thing...We thought the truck coming through was cool...
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Disney's concerned about the environment! "Environmentality", or some crap like that, right? >>> If you look closely at Environmentality, I think you'll find a very close correlation between those efforts and those that save money. It's almost as if they're only concerned with increasing the bottom line, and using the environment as an excuse to justify certain cutbacks that affect the guest experience (such as not changing the towels and sheets every day in the hotels) in situations where they otherwise don't want to appear cheap. Good thing I'm not cynical!
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 I love the fireworks shows. But how environmentally friendly are they, between the noise and the stuff that falls?
