Pesticide use at WDW

[kandb]

We are going to WDW for 10 nights at the end of August/Sept. I work in the public health field and know Zika virus is one of the hot topics right now. Does anyone know where someone can find out when/where and which kind of pesticides are sprayed at the parks and resorts? I have never seen mosquitos at Disney, so I am sure they treat their properties often. Thanks

 

[Oswin]

You'll need to likely look into Reedy Creek Improvement District and see if you can find any recent reports, if I remember correctly. A quick google search provided me with this website, maybe it can be of some use to you:

http://mosquito.ifas.ufl.edu/Florida_Mosquito_Control_Districts.htm

On a behind the seeds tour of the Land at Epcot, the CM told us that Disney also uses a lot of carbon (I can't remember if it's monoxide or dioxide) traps to lure in mosquitos, and they also release a variety of mosquito eating insects. I'm not sure if that is actually true or just meant to be something neat to tell guests, but it's interesting.

 

[walker0829]

Having just been there, I can tell you that whatever they use seems to work great. We didn't use bug spray at all and never had a problem with mosquito's. My wife is like a mosquito attractant so we fully expected to have problems with bites but not a single one. When we went over to Universal we found there were a bit more of them around.

 

[zaccaglin]

As A fl resident who lives on a lake I asked one of the horticulture CMs while he was spraying the WS one morning a few hours before park open. He told me what they used then said good luck ever getting any for Disney has a special license to obtain and spray. He was spraying all the flower beds and perimeter of the WS lagoon.

 

[kirrrby]

The only place I've ever been bitten by mosquitoes on Disney property were when we stayed at Fort wilderness, and it was maybe one or two bites in a whole two weeks. Everywhere else I've never seen any.