Mosquito tech

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We live in a swamp town and have an insanely thirsty mosquito population. Im looking for some first hand experience with keeping these fawkers as dead as possible. We are pretty good about not having any standing water all summer and I have murdered every bush and tree in the yard that I can practically murder.

So far, I have tried Spartan mosquito traps and a mosquito spraying service. I think they made a dent in the population last year, but they were still pretty bad. I'm curious about the following:

Propane powered mosquito traps Not cheap. I'll spend the money if it works, but I definitely can't trust the amazon reviews alone :laughing:

DIY Mosquito Fogger I can apply the juice more regularly. Cheap, but so cheap that it seems like it would suck.

CO2 mosquito trap Same concept as the propane, uses a co2 tank instead of propane to produce the co2. Refills would be a PITA, but way cheaper.


Anyone have some experience with those? Anything I'm missing? I'll buy once and cry once if it works, it gets hard to spend any time outside once they show up. Thanks.
 
I know the foggers work, but they're more of a "we're having a party tonight" kind of thing. I don't know think they work more than a day or two
 
You're probably running from them and swating at them this is You're problem, stop doing that. They are biting you looking for a reaction. Stand outside in your underwear and let them swarm you, once they see that you aren't giving them any attention, they'll go away and leave you alone.



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We tried the pane bomb gizmo.
Years ago, it failed
 
Not sure how much space you need to defend... an enginerd buddy of mine suggested a flowtron for 1/2 acre lot with a stream running thru it. The key is not hanging the unit close to where you will be hanging out. Watch out for stinging insects feasting on the droppings as you approach during the day.


 
My folks live up in the mountains near a small lake, and have plenty of bugs. They run a Mosquito Magnet every year, and it catches pounds of mosquitoes in the spring. The theory is that mosquitoes don't travel very far in their short lives, so once you deplete a local population, they're gone. Seems to work great.

Someone's patents must have run out, because this Flowtron is a straight ripoff of the Mosquito Magnet.
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I run a MM at my house in the city, and seldom see a mosquito. I'm 1/2 block from a full block of swamp/park. I got it for $125 on Clist.
 
I tried the magnet and it didn’t work at all

We hired a mosquito spraying service , the first time they did it , the
Skeeters were GONE .
Then the second time they sprayed it helped a little less and so on.
I
Think most of it was the person doing the work .
They would come and re spray for free so we’d call and they’d come back out and spend about 90 seconds spraying our driveway and then leave so it didn’t help at all .




I bought the same $500 backpack sprayer they used and try to use the same chemicals and that seems to reduce
Them by about 75% if I spray every two weeks .
 
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I too battle mosquitoes but my problem is ….. i have fire flies in my yard.

Anything that kills mosquitoes will ****s up the ecosystem and kills my fire flies I suspect.

I like the lightning bugs.
 
I read somewhere that 95% of mosquitoes live there entire life within 300’ of where they were born. So if you can eliminate standing water within 300’ you won’t have any. My house sits on 10 acres, so it is easy for me to control standing water 300’ out. I did and I hardly ever have mosquitoes. (And I’m in Florida)

Note, a mosquito can be hatched in the water that sits on a leaf, but they usually don’t because the leaf will dry to fast. That shows you how vigilant you must be. Any thing that holds a cup of water is trouble. Tires and dammed rain gutters are the worst culprits.

I realize it maybe harder to get your neighbors to conform, but maybe worth a try.
 
Go here and choose your preferred active ingredient.
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Add a backpack sprayer and overlap spray pattern for at least 300 feet (if possible).

Flying bugs generally are active at dawn and dusk so spray mid day to catch them on ground. Spray sides of buildings, trees, bushes, etc. They generally cant fly above 3mph winds and migrate less than 300 feet so check deadfall, furniture, etc.

They also offer pellets, automatic area sprayer systems that work like sprinklers, etc.
 
Mosquito magnet works decent. They are bad here in the evenings. Could swing a pocket knife randomly in the air and drop a few dozen.
 
A couple summers ago I did some renovations on a camp on a small lake, the camp was not 25' from the waters edge. On the deck railing facing the lake the guy had sandwich bags about half full of water and a dozen pennies in each bag, he swore by them to combat the skeeters.
I have a friend that had a carbon dioxide propane powered one, he claimed it worked.
 
Eliminate all standing water and grass around your house

Bacteria based mosquito dunks

The mosquitos in Northern Canada will straight up eat you alive. It's brutal.
 
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we had one of these out on the deck aa a kid

there was a pile of dead bodies, but the ants would haul them off during the day

so it was a self clean sort of deal
 
Get some Bifen, look for QT's that have around 25% active ingredient, that's what I buy. Bifenthrine kills anything with an exoskeleton and is safe foe humans and pets.
Dog have flees??? mix a couple drops in baby shampoo and wash the dog.
I use this **** for ANY bug problems, I keep a sprayer with Bifen so I can spray for bugs.
IF THE ACTIVE INGREDIENT IN BUG SPRAY DOESN'T END IN "THRIN" IT's A SCAM.

en.wikipedia.org

Bifenthrin - Wikipedia

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It use to be half this price before Biden

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