06-04-2012, 01:41 AM
It's no fairy tale and there is a lot of information on the internet. Here is a link to a Mother Earth News piece on the correlation between Muscovy Ducks and Mosquito control: http://www.motherearthnews.com/modern-ho...3zsie.aspx
From my understanding these ducks are not related to the Mallard species of ducks. The Muscovy originates from the Amazonian Rain Forest. They are a somewhat "noiseless" duck as well. Very pleasant to be around. I believe they are eating the larvae in the little ponds of standing ground water we have. Also they don't "require" a pond. When it gets dry here we have one large wide bucket that they like to jump into just to rinse off a bit. They needs lots of water when eating, so we make sure their watering jugs are full. They also snap mosquitoes and flies out of the air. I've seen them do it plenty of times. My kids have caught cocqui frogs and then thrown them in front of the ducks...the ducks gobble those cocquis right up! No fairy tale! They also eat slugs. I love my ducks!
~Laura (Raye who originally posted above is my partner).
From my understanding these ducks are not related to the Mallard species of ducks. The Muscovy originates from the Amazonian Rain Forest. They are a somewhat "noiseless" duck as well. Very pleasant to be around. I believe they are eating the larvae in the little ponds of standing ground water we have. Also they don't "require" a pond. When it gets dry here we have one large wide bucket that they like to jump into just to rinse off a bit. They needs lots of water when eating, so we make sure their watering jugs are full. They also snap mosquitoes and flies out of the air. I've seen them do it plenty of times. My kids have caught cocqui frogs and then thrown them in front of the ducks...the ducks gobble those cocquis right up! No fairy tale! They also eat slugs. I love my ducks!
~Laura (Raye who originally posted above is my partner).