In my futile quest to get more people to make mosquito traps for their yards, I made a visual.
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In my futile quest to get more people to make mosquito traps for their yards, I made a visual. Please share with friends and sneak into any presentation you're giving even if it's completely unrelated to mosquitoes. Mosquito Dunks contain Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis ("Bti"), a bacteria that is safe for everything except mosquito larvae, work for approximately 30 days, and are available at most garden centers and hardware stores in North America. Bti-containing powders and liquids are sold worldwide under different trade names. NB: the white lid helps you see mosquito larvae (if present it's time to add another dose of Bti). #mosquitoes #mosquito #ipm
@colinpurrington mosquitoes play a crucial role in the functioning of ecosystems. a single bat, for example, can eat up to 4000 mosquitoes in a night. birds, frogs, dragonflies, et cetera rely on mosquito populations for food. traps and poisons take away food from local species (and kill indiscriminately) already driven to extinction through the transformation of space into human centric landscapes. mosquitoes are pollinators too. just some food for thought. #environment #mosquitoes
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@colinpurrington mosquitoes play a crucial role in the functioning of ecosystems. a single bat, for example, can eat up to 4000 mosquitoes in a night. birds, frogs, dragonflies, et cetera rely on mosquito populations for food. traps and poisons take away food from local species (and kill indiscriminately) already driven to extinction through the transformation of space into human centric landscapes. mosquitoes are pollinators too. just some food for thought. #environment #mosquitoes
@colinpurrington my advice to anyone bothered by mosquitoes is to do everything you can to support wildlife. support dark spaces for bats, create places for frogs, and for birds and dragonflies, et cetera. darkness is important actually, some research has suggested that leaving lights on outside at night increases the feeding time for mosquitoes
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@colinpurrington mosquitoes play a crucial role in the functioning of ecosystems. a single bat, for example, can eat up to 4000 mosquitoes in a night. birds, frogs, dragonflies, et cetera rely on mosquito populations for food. traps and poisons take away food from local species (and kill indiscriminately) already driven to extinction through the transformation of space into human centric landscapes. mosquitoes are pollinators too. just some food for thought. #environment #mosquitoes
@gardengnome666 It's definitely something worth thinking about. I don't think anyone has studied the effects of home use of Bti but I like to think it would be far better than the current situation where (at least in the United States) people fog their yards with pyrethroids ... which can kill any small invertebrate.
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In my futile quest to get more people to make mosquito traps for their yards, I made a visual. Please share with friends and sneak into any presentation you're giving even if it's completely unrelated to mosquitoes. Mosquito Dunks contain Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis ("Bti"), a bacteria that is safe for everything except mosquito larvae, work for approximately 30 days, and are available at most garden centers and hardware stores in North America. Bti-containing powders and liquids are sold worldwide under different trade names. NB: the white lid helps you see mosquito larvae (if present it's time to add another dose of Bti). #mosquitoes #mosquito #ipm
@colinpurrington
Drop some yeast in there and it will let off CO2 which will attract female mosquitos to the bucket. -
@colinpurrington
Drop some yeast in there and it will let off CO2 which will attract female mosquitos to the bucket.@rouxdoo Yeast alone would do nothing and I suspect you'd need to add pounds of sugar every day to emit ecologically relevant levels of CO2. Mosquitoes rely too much on heat and odor for CO2 alone to work. Details here in case of interest: https://colinpurrington.com/2020/08/yeast-based-mosquito-control-devices/
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In my futile quest to get more people to make mosquito traps for their yards, I made a visual. Please share with friends and sneak into any presentation you're giving even if it's completely unrelated to mosquitoes. Mosquito Dunks contain Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis ("Bti"), a bacteria that is safe for everything except mosquito larvae, work for approximately 30 days, and are available at most garden centers and hardware stores in North America. Bti-containing powders and liquids are sold worldwide under different trade names. NB: the white lid helps you see mosquito larvae (if present it's time to add another dose of Bti). #mosquitoes #mosquito #ipm
@colinpurrington
That’s a smart approach. Using bacteria like Bti to control mosquito populations is a great example of targeted biological control. -
In my futile quest to get more people to make mosquito traps for their yards, I made a visual. Please share with friends and sneak into any presentation you're giving even if it's completely unrelated to mosquitoes. Mosquito Dunks contain Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis ("Bti"), a bacteria that is safe for everything except mosquito larvae, work for approximately 30 days, and are available at most garden centers and hardware stores in North America. Bti-containing powders and liquids are sold worldwide under different trade names. NB: the white lid helps you see mosquito larvae (if present it's time to add another dose of Bti). #mosquitoes #mosquito #ipm
@colinpurrington
Another simple anti-#mosquito trick is fill a spray bottle with a 10:1 water:dishwasher-detergent solution and spray any standing water you see.The detergent breaks up the surface tension of the water so mosquitoes can't land on it to lay their eggs.
Dishwasher-detergent doesn't foam as much as regular soap, so you can lightly shake the solution to mix it before using.
(If you don't have any dishwasher detergent, laundry detergent works just as well though it foams more.)
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@colinpurrington
That’s a smart approach. Using bacteria like Bti to control mosquito populations is a great example of targeted biological control.@MagnusIdode I really wish every single town pushed its residents to deploy mosquito buckets. Soooo much cheaper than buying tons of insecticides and of course the trucks needed for the fogging efforts.
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@colinpurrington
Another simple anti-#mosquito trick is fill a spray bottle with a 10:1 water:dishwasher-detergent solution and spray any standing water you see.The detergent breaks up the surface tension of the water so mosquitoes can't land on it to lay their eggs.
Dishwasher-detergent doesn't foam as much as regular soap, so you can lightly shake the solution to mix it before using.
(If you don't have any dishwasher detergent, laundry detergent works just as well though it foams more.)
@MugsysRapSheet But only would work for species that land on water to oviposit. Many, such as Asian tiger mosquito, land on the sides of the containers and pop out just one or two eggs. They are the devils, too.
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@2legged Yes, per this review of host range: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4014730/#:~:text=host%20range%20of%20Bti%20includes
An ovillanta is a bit of a different approach. A tray of water is set out; mosquitoes lay eggs in the water, Once a week the water is run though a screen, removing any larva. The same water is put back in the tray, because now it smells like mosquito larva, which will attract more mosquitos to lay eggs there. No chemicals needed, but you must remember to use the screen every week.
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