Mosquito traps

[simonsays]

I have used the $69 Fogger from Home Depot/Lowes which are propane driven but are very unstable and unreliable. When they worked they worked. I also purchased a Mosquito Magnet that was about $450 and it worked for a while. It was very high maintenance and I quit using it and got rid of it. Looking again I would would go the higher end Stihl/fogger approach. This has been a great thread for finding info.

thx for the feedback!

 

[Deere Dude]

I have a couple ultra violet bug zappers which pick off a ton of mosquitoes.

 

[Trials]

The Bank Swallow

1000 mosquitoes per day, per unit. No batteries or hydro electric required. Environmental impact, zero.

You can't possibly beat that performance with all your sprays and bug zappers, and all you need to do is to help them survive and prosper.

 

[bcp]

I'm have lots of trouble setting leg-hold traps that small. How are you guys doing it? Would snares be easier?

Bruce

 

[simonsays]

1000 mosquitoes per day, per unit. No batteries or hydro electric required. Environmental impact, zero. You can't possibly beat that performance with all your sprays and bug zappers, and all you need to do is to help them survive and prosper.

Where can I buy some of those. #hippysketotraps

 

[Trials]

Re: Mosquito eaters

Where can I buy some of those. #hippysketotraps

You don't, you just create a habitat that is suitable for them and they do the rest for free. If you have a nearby sandpit you have the perfect place. Make sure to leave a vertical face high as possible on a sand embankment and if you want to increase their chances of survival, lay snow fence or chain link on the ground above their nests so that skunks and racoons can't dig down and eat the babies.

 

[Trials]

Do you have rain barrels to collect rain water from your roof or stagnate water that is a breeding colony for mosquitoes ?

Put 3 or 4 inexpensive goldfish in there and they will eat up all the mosquito larva

Now do you want me to tell you about Bats :bat: it's mind expanding, isn't it?

 

[Zerk]

Any concerns about the well or dogs from the sprays?

I have thought about a giant fan in the garage. I read about how they use them for concesscion stands.

 

[Trials]

As a little kid, I can remember running along behind the DDT sprayer and i'm p-p-p-p-perfectly fine.

 

[PhysAssist]

As a little kid, I can remember running along behind the DDT sprayer and i'm p-p-p-p-perfectly fine.

Yah, they used to spray something (prolly DDT) weekly at the campground we stayed at all summers, (1967-69-ish) and I had bone cancer at 19 y/o w/ no family hx...

Anyway, we have a pond with Koi in it (one of which is 23 y/o this May) down slope of our house and everything else in our yard, so we don't spray or use any pesticides, but we DO use a s-ton of these Summit Chemical Company | Mosquito and Insect Control Products ? Mosquito Dunks®

They have to be spread early and respread every 20-30 months depending on how wet the weather is.

 

[GLyford]

I went the other way, built a screen porch...

 

[PhysAssist]

I went the other way, built a screen porch...

We're headed that way, we need to extend the deck first and then we'll be enclosing a portion of it.

BTW, the post about fish, especially carp (e.g., Koi) eating mosquito larvae before they can graduate into biting adults is spot on- we never ever see larvae in the pond water surveys we do.

The other areas of standing water are loaded unless they've been "dunked".

Thomas

 

[Zerk]

I went the other way, built a screen porch...

Ya I have thought about that. Also though about role down screen for garage door.