{"id":23557,"date":"2019-08-19T11:04:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T15:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=23557"},"modified":"2019-08-19T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T15:04:18","slug":"public-notice-maryland-agencies-to-treat-potomac-river-for-black-fly-control-on-august-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2019\/08\/19\/public-notice-maryland-agencies-to-treat-potomac-river-for-black-fly-control-on-august-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Notice: Maryland Agencies to Treat Potomac River for Black Fly Control on August 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANNAPOLIS, MD<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture\u2014in partnership with the Department of Natural Resources\u2014will treat a <a href=\"https:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/plants-pests\/Documents\/blackflymap.pdf\">targeted area of the Potomac River<\/a> in Washington County to control black fly populations in the area. Treatment is scheduled for Tuesday, August 20, starting at 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The department will apply a <em>Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti)-based<\/em> larvicide via helicopter (Bell OH58, gray with blue and red paint scheme.\u00a0Tail number is N659HA<em>). Bti is a <\/em>naturally occurring bacteria found in soils worldwide. It is a bacterial insecticide, not a chemical, and is only harmful to a very limited variety of organisms including midge, black fly, and mosquito larvae and a few other aquatic Dipteran (flies) insects.<\/p>\n<p>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<a href=\"http:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/plants-pests\/Documents\/bti.factsheet.pdf\">More Information\u200b<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the department\u2019s black fly program, visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/plants-pests\/Pages\/Black-Fly-Program.aspx\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"># # #<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mdagdept\">@MdAgDept<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD\u00a0\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture\u2014in partnership with the Department of Natural Resources\u2014will treat a targeted area of the Potomac River in Washington County to control black fly populations in the area. Treatment is scheduled for Tuesday, August 20, starting at 8:30 a.m. The department will apply a Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti)-based larvicide via<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2019\/08\/19\/public-notice-maryland-agencies-to-treat-potomac-river-for-black-fly-control-on-august-20\/\">&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-23557","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\/23557","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=23557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23558,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23557\/revisions\/23558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}