{"id":23499,"date":"2019-07-23T11:41:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T15:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=23499"},"modified":"2019-07-23T15:16:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T19:16:59","slug":"public-notice-maryland-agencies-to-treat-potomac-river-for-black-fly-control-on-july-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2019\/07\/23\/public-notice-maryland-agencies-to-treat-potomac-river-for-black-fly-control-on-july-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Notice: Maryland Agencies to Treat Potomac River for Black Fly Control on July 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #333333\">**UPDATED AIRCRAFT INFORMATION BELOW**<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #333333\">ANNAPOLIS, MD<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #333333\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #333333\">\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture\u2014in partnership with the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">Department of Natural Resources<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #333333\">\u2014will treat targeted areas of the Potomac River in Washington County to control black fly populations in the area. Treatment is scheduled for Thursday, July 25, starting at 8:30 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #333333\">The department will apply a <em>Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti)-<\/em><em>based<\/em> larvicide via helicopter <strong>(<\/strong><strong>Bell OH58, gray with blue\/red paint scheme.\u00a0Tail number is N659HA<\/strong><strong>)<\/strong>.<\/span><em><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #333333\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #333333\">Bti <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #333333\">is a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #333333\">naturally occurring bacteria found in soils worldwide. It is a bacterial insecticide, not a chemical, and is only harmful<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #333333\"> to a very limited variety of organisms including midge, black fly, and mosquito larvae and a few other aquatic Dipteran (flies) insects. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #333333\">The treatment may cause temporary discoloration of the water, but it is completely nontoxic and is not harmful to humans, fish, crabs or other aquatic invertebrates.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/plants-pests\/Documents\/bti.factsheet.pdf\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">More Information<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #0088cc\">\u200b<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #333333\">For more information on the department\u2019s black fly program, visit our <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/plants-pests\/Pages\/Black-Fly-Program.aspx\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;color: #333333\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"># # #<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mdagdept\">@MdAgDept<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**UPDATED AIRCRAFT INFORMATION BELOW** ANNAPOLIS, MD\u00a0\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture\u2014in partnership with the Department of Natural Resources\u2014will treat targeted areas of the Potomac River in Washington County to control black fly populations in the area. Treatment is scheduled for Thursday, July 25, starting at 8:30 a.m. The department will apply a Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2019\/07\/23\/public-notice-maryland-agencies-to-treat-potomac-river-for-black-fly-control-on-july-25\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23501,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499\/revisions\/23501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}