PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Aerial spraying for mosquitoes began Thursday night in Plymouth and Bristol counties, areas that are now at risk for Eastern equine encephalitis on Thursday night.
Sky25 captured an airplane as it lifted off in Plymouth to spray the area for mosquitoes.
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Drone video shows low-lying marshes and wetlands that provide prime breeding grounds for the pests.
People in Marshfield are happy to see the spraying.
"The mosquitoes are really bad. We play a lot of baseball at night and it was terrible for the kids. It was really, really bad. The kids had to spray themselves head to toe," said Steve Kielty of Marshfield.
Twenty-two cities and towns are now labled as high-risk for EEE, a rare but potentially fatal disease.
People in those areas say this summer, mosquitoes are everywhere.
Kielty's son is one of those kids who played summer baseball.
"They kept biting me and going into my ears and all I heard was buzzing," Aiden Kielty said.
This is the area the Department of Public Health says will be sprayed tonight.
The pesticides are Sumithrin and Piperonyl Butoxide. The state Department of Public Health says both are widely used and do not pose any health risks.
Still, people in areas being sprayed, like Anne Walton, say they'll stay indoors and so will her dogs.
"Yes ... if they’re spraying the bugs, I’ll stay in," she said.
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