Dengue Fever Supplies - Products & Stores

[PauHana]

I tried mixing insecticide with Halloween fog but it didn't work.

I have the insect fog, but I am not impressed with the results.

[microage97]

Those foggers do work, but you gotta have the juice to go with it.

[Seeb]

Amazon won't ship the liquid and all the stores I've checked are out of Malathion since people started spraying.

[Kenney]

I'm allergic to DEET (as well as most chemicals)so it's been a challenge to find something else that works. After 2 weeks of nausea, headaches and burning skin due to applications of 20% Deet, my son remembered reading an article in Consumer Reports (May Issue) about a new product that's comparable. Picaradin. I think it's in the new Avon Insect repellent, but not sure of the concentration. It's worth a try! Stay safe everybody!

[Lodestone]

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.

[EvilOctopus]

I posted this in the other dengue topic.. but figured it might be of some use here. We've got a retired physicist neighbor that did the research on these traps and we've been testing them out with good success in the neighborhood. Here's a link to the flyer he produced on how to make the traps: http://eviloctopus.com/mosquitotrap_v3.pdf

[Lodestone]

OK, I'm declaring victory over mosquitoes. We haven't SEEN a mosquito in a week and a half, let alone been bit. All hail Mosquito Bits! I highly recommend turning your bromeliads into mosquito death-traps using the methods described in my post above.

[PunaMauka2]

No bromeliads in the vicinity that I am aware of, though I also recently enjoyed a period of mosquitoes apparently vanishing altogether for a couple of weeks. This was after closely scouring the vicinity for any previously unnoticed sources of standing water (found several). Thanks to a comment I saw in one of these threads I made the effort to check and clean a particularly hard to reach gutter. Low and behold it had indeed been a comfy spot for mosquito larvae to hang out. We did have a bit of a cold snap recently, which might have also helped reduce mosquito presence.

Granted this is way up mauka where mosquitoes tend to be significantly less numerous and aggressive than their insatiably voracious cousins downslope.

[Lodestone]

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Originally posted by PunaMauka2

We did have a bit of a cold snap recently, which might have also helped reduce mosquito presence.
Granted this is way up mauka where mosquitoes tend to be significantly less numerous and aggressive than their insatiably voracious cousins downslope.

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Yeah, weather could be a factor even though we're down in HS. I'm tempted to experiment by stopping treatment... but curiosity caused the cat to get dengue fever.[xx(]

[PunaMauka2]

Ha, steps toward eradication is the preferred route here too. Any experimentation involving letting standing water lay untended will have to wait.

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