The mosquito control plane flew over our small town last summer. Since we live close to the marshes we were treated to several lethal doses, as the pilot criss-crossed over our place....We consider the spraying of active poison over private land to be a serious aerial intrusion.
The 'harmless' shower bath killed seven of our lovely song-birds outright. We picked up the three dead bodies the next morning, right by the door....The next day three were scattered around the bird bath. (I had emptied it and scrubbed it after the spraying, but YOU CAN NEVER KILL DDT.) On the following day one robin dropped suddenly from a branch in our woods.
We were too heart-sick to hunt for other corpses. All of these birds died horribly, and in the same way. Their bills gaping open and their splayed claws were drwan up to their breasts in agony.
Air spraying where it is not needed or wanted is inhuman, undemocratic, and probably unconstitutional. For those of us who stand helplessly on the tortured earth, it is intolerable (Sterling, pp. 147-148).