Provided by Dr. Marion Fuller
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS)
Report Dated 06/17/98
The second aerial bait application is scheduled to begin over a 40 square mile area, tonight at 10:00 pm, weather permitting, and barring an mechanical difficulties. As before, two DC3 aircraft are being used - they'll be flying out of the Sarasota/Bradenton airport. There will be a post- treatment press briefing Thursday afternoon at 4:00 pm at the Medfly Program headquarters in Palmetto.
3283 traps are in service in Manatee: 2913 Jackson, 86 McPhail, and 284 yellow panel traps.
Ground crews continue to make applications in the buffer zones; commercial crews continue with fruit stripping in the core.
Environmental Monitoring:
The following results are from water samples collected on June 11, following the first aerial bait treatment:
| Terra Cierra Bay | BDL |
| Champlain Bay | BDL |
| Clambar Bay | BDL |
| Emerson Bay | BDL |
| Snead Island Cutoff | BDL |
| McLewis Bayou | 6.0 ppb |
| Warner's Bayou | 8.7 ppb |
| Palma Sola Bay | ND |
| Palma Sola Creek S | 2.6 ppb |
| Palma Sola Creek W | BDL |
| Cedar Hammach Canal | BDL |
The detection limit and practical quantitation limit remain unchanged at 0.1 and 0.3 ppb respectively. Malaoxon was not detected in any sample (MDL = 0.1 ppb)
Health Monitoring
As of today, DOH has received a total of 97 calls reporting health concerns. 84 of these came through Manatee CHD; 6 from Tampa Poison Information Center; and 7 from DOH/Tallahassee. 10 of the calls were received today (Monday and Tuesdays counts were 22 and 25 respectively.) All of the calls received since the last update have been related to the aerial bait treatment. As previously reported, symptoms are generally mild, and include a variety of organ systems (gastro-intestinal, respiratory, nervous system, skin rashes, etc). DOH continues to follow up on these cases.
17 of the 97 calls have been lost to follow up or are not considered malathion-bait cases as defined by DOH pesticide surveillance criteria.
Bitmap note: I'm attaching a copy of the infamous bitmap of last week's treatment - for anyone who didn't get it already!
There are 5,504 traps deployed: 3552 Jackson, 438 Zellowood, 1259 panel, 205 McPhail, and 50 IPT traps.
Environmental Monitoring:
Pending (We have had some technical problems in the lab, consequently, our analyses are taking a little longer to complete.)
Health Monitoring:
No report
Once again - thanks to all of you helping out in the program - DEP/Tampa: for the environmental sampling; DOH/Manatee for the manning of the Hotline; DOH/Tallahassee for all the follow up and assistance with the "non-routine" calls; EPA/Region IV for the oversight; and everyone else who's assisted us with running a responsible program.
FDACS - Division of Plant Industy:
Mediterranean fruit fly information
USDA APHIS: Mediterranean fruit fly information
UF/IFAS Fact Sheet ENY-809:
The Mediterranean Fruit Fly
UF/IFAS Fact Sheet ENY-626:
Mediterranean Fruit Fly: What Floridians Need To Know