Scaredychicken: in our lakeside trailer court there were 7o trailers with board patios. About half the units had skeeter vacs running all summer, but the mosquito were still terrible all po0f the time until the really hot dry weather came about mid-July, when the mosquitos were all dead of old age.
I don't think that the propane skeeter vacs worked at all, but then I did not have one on my patio. I had a propane torch hhich made a dense foggy smoke with DDT in it. That worked until the smoke blew away. It killed a lotta bugs, but the mosquitos were rignt back withiin twenty minutes. Some guys would spray dozens of cans of raid into the open. That killed all the mosquitos for about an hour, then back they came. At night my neighbour burned a big cordwood fire with flames ten feet high in the middle of his large lot next to mine. He burned half a cord of wood every evening, dried and split. That really worked, but somany neighbors would gather there every night you could not get any peace and quiet, cause thell got rowdy and drunk, so he got kicked out of the park becoz of the complaints of late night noise and firecrackers that scared all tbe pet dogs into barking. It was bedlam but nobody felt any mosquito bites with ten yards of the firepit. In the morning there were hundereds of beer cans scattered heck west and crooked. His dutifui tolerant wife would get up early and clean up the mess without a murmer, but I got so fed up we pulled out and sold my trailer and deck right where it stood. I don't really like rowdy neighbors much, especially the ones that think it is fine to throttle up Harleys in the middle of the night. At that place the swkitters were awful, but preferable to the Yayhoos and the impossible racket way late. My wifes little dog would be so scared of the nouse of the fiurecrackers tght he would lie in bed beside my wife and tremble in terror. We Will never go back there.______
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