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Originally Posted by Descant
I remember when the town used to spray with a helicopter. Everybody was told to cover their cars to protect the paint.
I have a quarterly pest control service. They check for mice and other rodents, ants, etc. and clean and re-bait traps. Spraying is limited to a hand sprayer around the foundation and eaves or other locations if hornets are present. As a separate service, they do tick control around the yard perimeter. Again, hand spray, and/or granular, so there should be no overflow to neighbors.
At camp, we can't spray because we're too close to the water. Some years we have a lot of mosquitoes, other years, none. Same with flies that bite.
Talk to the neighbor and to the service company. You may just be in a cycle where there aren't many bugs. Do you still have birds? How are your butterfly garden plants doing?
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Now that you mention it most of the birds have gone. Haven't seen hummingbirds, robins jays, finches sparrows etc. Plenty of water birds. Ducks, geese cormorants, loons as well as eagles and hawks are still around. Ravens are still here but the song birds are gone.