12-02-2015, 03:17 PM
Tentative success to report on my personal war on mosquitoes. My house is bordered by jungle on three sides, making elimination of all standing water problematic. Also, I still have about 50 bromeliads (ripped most of them out long ago once I saw mosquito larvae frolicking in them).
Stumbled into a product called "Mosquito Bits" at Amazon...
http://www.amazon.com/Mosquito-Dunks-117...0001AUF8G/
It contains a strain of bacteria that is deadly to mosquito larvae. It's like "Mosquito Dunks", except that it's in rice-sized bits and is designed for tiny pools of standing water.
About three weeks ago I tossed handfuls of the "bits" into the bromeliad patches, thus turning these mosquito breeding nests into mosquito birth-control clinics. (I suppose I could just destroy the plants, but I think the mosquitos would just breed in the neighboring jungle then.) I did the same for piles of tree trimmings and mulch, and anything else that might hold standing water. I repeated this last week.
We have gone from getting bit several times a day to only twice in the last week. Perhaps just random mosquito population fluctuation, but promising results so far.
Stumbled into a product called "Mosquito Bits" at Amazon...
http://www.amazon.com/Mosquito-Dunks-117...0001AUF8G/
It contains a strain of bacteria that is deadly to mosquito larvae. It's like "Mosquito Dunks", except that it's in rice-sized bits and is designed for tiny pools of standing water.
About three weeks ago I tossed handfuls of the "bits" into the bromeliad patches, thus turning these mosquito breeding nests into mosquito birth-control clinics. (I suppose I could just destroy the plants, but I think the mosquitos would just breed in the neighboring jungle then.) I did the same for piles of tree trimmings and mulch, and anything else that might hold standing water. I repeated this last week.
We have gone from getting bit several times a day to only twice in the last week. Perhaps just random mosquito population fluctuation, but promising results so far.