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Helicopters are flying over Kanata North starting this week are applying larvicide for mosquito control.

The Kanata North program, which aims to keep mosquito larva found in wetlands from hatching into blood-sucking adults, runs until Sept. 15.

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What the city calls a “small, localized program” was approved for four seasons through 2019.

G.D.G. Environnement Ltée. will apply the biological larvicide by air and ground to stagnant water.

The control agents are bacillus thuringiensis israelensis and bacillus sphaericus, bacteria found naturally in soils. While they destroy the stomachs of mosquito larva, the Health Canada Regulatory Agency has approved both agents and has found them to have no effects on humans, birds, fish, animals or other insects.

Landowners who don’t want to take part can file objections.

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