CAMARILLO : 10th Aerial Spraying Called a Success
Agriculture officials have declared this week’s aerial spraying of the pesticide malathion over eastern Camarillo a success.
Tuesday’s spray mission over the 16-square-mile Medfly eradication zone--the 10th since the spraying missions began last fall--came after rains washed out flights March 7 and Feb. 28.
The now familiar quartet of helicopters--three spraying and one guiding--left Camarillo Airport at 9 p.m. Tuesday and experienced near perfect weather conditions during the four-hour mission, according to Larry Hawkins, a spokesman for the state and federal Cooperative Medfly Project.
“It was a good flight,” Hawkins said. “We had no mechanical problems and we had great weather.”
But because continuing cool weather has served to lengthen the crop-destroying fly’s life span, the monthlong delay is not believed to have affected efforts to eliminate the pest from the county.
Hawkins said the next spraying is scheduled for 9 p.m. March 28.
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