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Kill Mosquitoes.
Grant Park Bites Back is a community fundraiser and education campaign focused on mosquito-dunk bucket kits to neighbors who care about protecting babies, bees, birds, butterflies, and abuelas from chemical mosquito sprays, replacing toxic pyrethroid sprays with organic, EPA-approved Bti larvicide.
The problem with conventional mosquito control
Babies & Seniors
In-utero pesticide exposure is linked to reduced birth weight and disrupted fetal immune function; residues travel straight to the brain through nasal passages.
Bees
A 2024 Xerces Society study found 100% of sprayed yards — and 75% of neighboring unsprayed yards — carried bee-lethal pyrethroid levels from drift.
Birds
Spraying wipes out the insects that feed 96% of backyard bird species' chicks; nearly 30% of North America's birds have vanished in 50 years.
Conventional spraying does not just kill mosquitoes — it kills the neighborhood ecosystem.