Mosquitoes, good method to get rid of them?

[CADplans]

Mosquitoes breed in the smallest amount of stagnant water,, I can not convince my neighbor,,

come to my house, almost no mosquitoes,, go to his house 400 yards away,, the mosquitoes will carry you away,,

the difference is stagnant water,,
he has leaves in gutters, several bags of aluminum cans waiting to go to recycling, and other stuff laying around catching rain water.

GET RID OF THE WATER,,,,,, PERIOD.

I had a business in another town one time, you could not work there in the evenings with the door open,,
mosquitoes,,

It turned out that there was an equipment dealer about 100 yards away,, they had some used tractor tires setting in their back lot.
The dealer folded,, the place was cleaned of stuff sitting around,,

Guess what,, ?? no more mosquitoes,,,

 

[RalphVa]

Best thing is mosquito Dunks or Bits. We have some low areas along the trails we hike every day. Early in the season, I bought about a dozen or so Dunks and threw them in those low areas that would often hold water after rains. Have not had any this summer. Had some get into one of my rain barrels. Put a few Bits (just chopped up Dunks) in it. Killed them.

Ralph

 

[GCoco]

I use Nyguard IGR. 3ml/gallon and the Talastar P is 1oz/gallon. After the first application I treat again in two weeks after that every month. I apply about 5 or 6oz per minute.

 

[3Ts]

people should be required to either get rid of stagnant water, or have it properly treated to prevent mosquitoes. what's the sense in allowing mosquitoes to breed?. I know, either laziness or Terrorists!..

Just now catching up on this thread and I see several comments about getting rid of standing water. It's important! Don't forget what mosquitoes carry with them: diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, etc. and while we don't have the diseases now, we do have the carrier so it wouldn't take much to get the disease re-introduced.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Bats.
Lots of bats.

The deck that rings the second floor of our house has a cosmetic 2x12 which is about an inch or so past most of the other wood on the house, makes an ideal nesting area for bats, and every evening at dusk a couple hundred bats come zooming out. Despite the meadow adjacent to our property basically being a wetland half the year, and the numerous local ponds, we can be out and about without repellent and only encounter the occasional mosquito.

A zillion frogs helps, too, as do dragonflies, but I don't know how to encourage them, they just spontaneously generate around here.
I looked into getting mosquito fish for our pond and a guy looked at the pond water and said "they'd die in here, nothing for them to eat".

Bats,frogs and dragonflies eat lots of mosquitos. A stocking of bream and sun perch in the creek will take care of the larvae also. If the standing water is deep enough the fish can get into that area also. You may have to restock each spring after the high water recedes from spring time rains. They also are quite tasty when fried. It is amazing how many can live in a small creek. I have creeks and ponds surrounding my house and rarely have a mosquito at my house, but I have lots of frogs and bream in the creeks and ponds plus a few bats fly around at night.

 

[rangerfredbob]

I can't do anything about 90% of the standing water, I do have some things that need cleared out but not much standing water that isn't in tall grass that I can't cut . One of these years I'll figure out a way to get the high water areas mowed before the reed canary grass goes to seed but that is going to require something light with a lot of surface area on tires and a mow height of near a foot most likely... need to get a two blade riding mower deck, a 12hp riding mower engine and make a tow behind for the 4 wheeler basically with riding mower rear tires for gauge wheels.

The creek I don't believe moves enough to support fish, there are a lot of frogs, there's a BUNCH of tiny ones about the size of a quarter or smaller this year for whatever reason

I'll read through this more thoroughly later and see what I can do

 

[ruffdog]

Good points made by everyone! If all else fails.....get the loader mounted flamethrower!

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/business/article211764444.html

 

[denmis]

I'm in South Mississippi, and I started using Spartan Mosquito a couple of years ago. It works great at my place. I have four out now, and it keeps about 2-3 acres around the house free from mosquitoes. Two years ago they were so bad they'd pick me up off the tractor and drag me into the woods. Then I heard a radio ad about this product (made right here in So. MS), and tried it. Within about a month, I didn't see another mosquito for the rest of the summer. I've used it since, and it seems to work well.

About Spartan Mosquito Eradicators - Spartan Mosquito

 

[cqaigy2]

Good points made by everyone! If all else fails.....get the loader mounted flamethrower!

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/business/article211764444.html

I wonder how that would work on zombies?

 

[suburbanfarmer]

I'm in South Mississippi, and I started using Spartan Mosquito a couple of years ago. It works great at my place. I have four out now, and it keeps about 2-3 acres around the house free from mosquitoes. Two years ago they were so bad they'd pick me up off the tractor and drag me into the woods. Then I heard a radio ad about this product (made right here in So. MS), and tried it. Within about a month, I didn't see another mosquito for the rest of the summer. I've used it since, and it seems to work well.

About Spartan Mosquito Eradicators - Spartan Mosquito

A little expensive arent these tubes?

 

[Alan W.]

I'm in South Mississippi, and I started using Spartan Mosquito a couple of years ago. It works great at my place. I have four out now, and it keeps about 2-3 acres around the house free from mosquitoes. Two years ago they were so bad they'd pick me up off the tractor and drag me into the woods. Then I heard a radio ad about this product (made right here in So. MS), and tried it. Within about a month, I didn't see another mosquito for the rest of the summer. I've used it since, and it seems to work well.

About Spartan Mosquito Eradicators - Spartan Mosquito

Have been looking at these and was curious how well they worked. RuralKing has the on sale now.

 

[oosik]

So you have a small puddle or pond and want to get rid of the mosquitos. What we use to do would get you in trouble now. So there is a modified procedure that should be OK.

Take a glass Coke bottle - half full of diesel fuel - tightly wrap a shop rag and jam into the Coke bottle - clear to the bottom. Throw it out into the puddle/pond. The shop rag will wick diesel fuel to the surface of the water - the mosquito larva will suffocate - lack of oxygen.

Now a days this will get you in trouble. SO.... use olive oil as a substitute for diesel fuel. Works just as well - environmentally friendly.

Then there is liquid DDT - - but we shant even discuss that option.

 

[Diggin It]

I suppose something in the Kiloton range is out of the question?

 

[cqaigy2]

I suppose something in the Kiloton range is out of the question?

Maybe with mostly neutron output?

 

[/pine]

Buzz off: breakthrough technique eradicates mosquitoes

 

[zzvyb6]

Bats, bluebirds and tree and barn swallows. Let the birds nest near your home/patio area. If that's not eliminating them, the propane fogger is excellent for a couple of days, but the birds will move on to where the bugs are.

 

[SandraOpines]

The first few years after purchasing our property and clearing it, we had an outrageous amount of mosquitoes. We located every place that held still water and eliminated the standing water. The hardest is a cypress pond which the beavers dam up constantly and the water will stop flowing. It held about 6 inches of water near our house so we removed the beaver dam and the water flowed and it reduced our mosquitoes by about 90%. It is now more normal mosquito population around here. We rarely get bit.


HTH
Sandra

 

[Larry Caldwell]

people should be required to either get rid of stagnant water, or have it properly treated to prevent mosquitoes. what's the sense in allowing mosquitoes to breed?. I know, either laziness or Terrorists!..

One of the most common sources of mosquitoes in rural areas is discarded tires. They collect rainwater and are a perfect breeding ground. Natural stagnant water usually has enough fish or frogs to eat the larvae.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

The first few years after purchasing our property and clearing it, we had an outrageous amount of mosquitoes. We located every place that held still water and eliminated the standing water. The hardest is a cypress pond which the beavers dam up constantly and the water will stop flowing. It held about 6 inches of water near our house so we removed the beaver dam and the water flowed and it reduced our mosquitoes by about 90%. It is now more normal mosquito population around here. We rarely get bit.


HTH
Sandra

You could have left the beavers alone and just added a bunch of guppies to the water when water temp reached 55 degrees in the spring.

 

[/pine]

One of the most common sources of mosquitoes in rural areas is discarded tires. They collect rainwater and are a perfect breeding ground. Natural stagnant water usually has enough fish or frogs to eat the larvae.

Another place mosquitoes lay their eggs is inside older corrugated culverts where the corrugations hold water and it's slow to evaporate even in dry weather...