Relentless Mosquitoes!! (yard, area, island)

[elnina]

Originally Posted by texas7

Go buy Spartan Mosquito. It works. Usually can find at feed stores, lawn and garden stores etc.

https://spartanmosquito.com/?gclid=E...SAAEgL2nvD_BwE

Can't imagine that the little bit of O2 could kill any mosquito. Very expensive for the simple ingredients: sugar, yeast and salt.

[gwarnecke]

Any other tips for controlling mosquitos?

I only know what does NOT work: the Dynatrap. I bought one of these last year and returned it to Costco a couple of months later. It managed to catch a few moths, but the mosquitos ignored it altogether.

[Dopo]

Whoever comes up with a good mosquito catcher is going to be the next billionaire

[HookTheBrotherUp]

Only one thing I've ever seen/used in my life worked miracles, but you cannot find it anymore... good ol' fashion DDT. My father, a Korean War veteran, worked at Ft Bliss and used to bring home those Army Green cans of the stuff... worked miracles! It never bothered me, but I am the ONLY Conservative in my immediate family, my father's side, and mother's side. Very lonely actually.

[sonic0boom]

My go to is Mosquito Beater in liquid form (they sell pellets, but i haven't used that). It's a bottle that you connect to your hose and you spray all over. It's some concentrated mixture of cedar oil and other stuff. I spray it in on the shrubs, the front door area where the bugs like to congregate and wherever else. First time i used it, i was impressed by the mound of dead mosquitos. I get it from my local nursery, and it's available on Amazon. If you look at the reviews, some people say it doesn't work for them. Maybe they have tougher mosquitoes than the ones around my house? But i say it's worth a shot.

[resonator]

A little north of San Antonio here, mosquitoes not bad (yet?) but house flies are terrible outdoors.
Raid flying insect spray is incredible, just fog the area the fly through. Nerve gas for flies.



Don't buy one of those cheap Walmart fly traps you add water to in order to activate it. Incredible persistent and most awful stink.



I had one out doors and do believe it captured the advertised 20,000 flies in about three days. After throwing it out, it took two good rainstorms to get rid of the stink. The ground, house, and plants must have absorbed it.

[bu2]

Citronella oil does a decent job.

[Thoreau424]

We might call them insects, but they're really blood relocation messengers

[houston-nomad]

Originally Posted by Dopo

Whoever comes up with a good mosquito catcher is going to be the next billionaire

Here's one:

A bat


I'll be waiting for my billion-dollar check!

[Chanteuse d' Opéra]

Originally Posted by houston-nomad

Here's one:

A bat


I'll be waiting for my billion-dollar check!

Didn't most o the bats die in the freeze??