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Judge dismisses Spartan Mosquito’s SLAPP against me
Good news! In a March 14th ruling (below), the judge presiding over AC2T v. Purrington dismissed the case with prejudice. The decision came after Jeremy Hirsch, the company’s chairman-of-the-board,...
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Ice prism in a wheelbarrow
I’d heard of ice spikes before — those strange horns that grow out of ice cube trays. And a quick internet search pulls up the rarer ice pyramid, too, like this one. But I’ve never heard of a...
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When it snows, look for snow flies
It’s going to snow all day here in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, so I thought I’d post a quick note about a snow fly I found years ago in New York. I’m pretty it was a male Chionea scita (Limoniidae), one...
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Caverns of Sonora
Here are some photographs of Mayfield Cave in Sutton County, Texas, commercialized in 1960 and since then known as the Caverns of Sonora. It’s an approximately 7-1/2 mile limestone cave system that...
View ArticleSpartan Mosquito settles class-action fraud suit for $3.6 million
This week, details of the settlement in the class-action lawsuit against Spartan Mosquito (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) were revealed. The lawsuit accused Spartan Mosquito of falsely advertising that the...
View ArticleA timeline of Spartan Mosquito
Below is history of Spartan Mosquito, a pesticide manufacturer based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The timeline starts in 2014 with the purchase of a Which Wich sandwich franchise by Jeremy Hirsch and...
View ArticleRegulatory actions against Spartan Mosquito
Below are some documents that detail regulatory actions against Spartan Mosquito (AC2T, Inc.), a Mississippi company that markets tubes filled with sugar, yeast, water, and either table salt or boric...
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Spartan Mosquito’s efficacy data revealed
Below are some PDFs that Spartan Mosquito of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, shared with state pesticide officials and the Environmental Protection Agency to get registrations for its two products, the...
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Insects in the vegetable garden
Here are some photographs I took in June at my allotment in town. First up is a spotted cucumber beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi), perhaps the most common insect in my garden every year. In...
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Macrosiagon cruenta parasitizing potter wasps at insect hotel
Last year I had a little surprise at my bee and wasp hotel. Although I didn’t know it at the time, some of the wasp larvae I found nesting inside the tubes were harboring parasitoids. The story starts...
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Spartan Mosquito Eradicator updates
Below are some developments relating to Spartan Mosquito’s attractive toxic sugar bait called the “Eradicator”. It’s a tube filled with water, sucrose, sodium chloride, and yeast. Cease-and-desist...
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Does the Spartan Mosquito Pro Tech attract mosquitoes?
This post evaluates the claim on the label, “mosquitoes will gather near them”. Per the company, it is the first step in how the device kills mosquitoes. I.e., the device needs to attract mosquitoes...
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Spartan Mosquito Eradicator vs Spartan Mosquito Pro Tech
Here’s a table comparing the two attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSBs) sold by Spartan Mosquito. Please feel free to copy the image and share with friends and family on Facebook and Nextdoor. If you...
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Class action suit over Spartan Mosquito Eradicators
Spartan Mosquito, Jeremy Hirsch, and the Bonner Analytical Testing Company are targets of a class-action suit filed May 4th, 2020, in the Southern District of New York by the firm Bursor & Fisher....
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Spartan Mosquito Pro Tech
Here’s a summary of the Spartan Mosquito Pro Tech, the newest device made by the makers of the Spartan Mosquito Eradicator, which I reviewed in 2019. Aside from differences in label design, the Pro...
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GoFundMe campaign
I’ve set up a GoFundMe campaign to cover the nearly $100,000 I’ve spent defending myself against Spartan Mosquito’s lawsuit (ACT2, Inc. vs Purrington). The company is suing me over the contents of my...
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Yeast-based mosquito control devices
If you’re even remotely interested in killing mosquitoes, you’ve probably seen ads for plastic tubes that are filled with water, sugar, and yeast. The marketing pitch is that the thousands of...
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Experiments on Spartan Mosquito Eradicators
Research conducted in Florida found no evidence that Spartan Mosquito Eradicatiors are effective mosquito-control devices. Here’s the citation: Aryaprema, V.S., E. Zeszutko, C. Cunningham, E.I.M....
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Posts about Spartan Mosquito
People searching the internet for “spartan mosquito does it work?“ sometimes get directed to my site, so I thought it might be useful to make a post that listed all my previous writings about the...
View ArticleSpartan Mosquito v. Colin Purrington
AC2T, Inc, a Mississippi company valued at over $100 million, is suing me in Federal court over my review of the Spartan Mosquito Eradicator. The device is a plastic tube filled with sugar, salt,...
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