An aerial disinsection against mosquito larvae will be carried out on Thursday, 7 May 2026 in the early morning hours over the entire territory of Skopje. If weather conditions don't allow, the action will be rescheduled.

The recommendations for beekeepers are familiar and keep being repeated - protective measures during the spraying, because the method, although aimed at mosquito larvae, doesn't distinguish between insects. That's also one of the criticisms we've been hearing for a long time - spraying without precision means damage to whole ecosystems, not just to what we're targeting.

The question Skopje residents put every year - does this actually work. In theory, larvicidal spraying in the early spring wipes out mosquitoes before they become flying and active. In practice, every year in June Skopje wakes up with the same problem - fast population growth and the failure of prevention. Maybe the problem isn't in the spraying - but in the standing water that nobody drains, the gutters that don't function, the unmaintained canals that are ideal for larvae to develop.

About what chemicals are actually used, nowhere does it say clearly. About the sanitary consequences of aerial spraying over an inhabited city - same. These are questions we at Metla think the city should answer before the spraying, not after.