Do you spray for mosquitoes? And, do your neighbors complain about it?

[Anonymous]

Do you hire a service or spray the yard yourself? Any issues with neighbors? I remember a couple of years ago, a woman in Arlington complained about the mosquito squad people spraying near her yard.

[Anonymous]

yes spray all the time, neighbors don't care.

[Anonymous]

I'm more annoyed with the neighbors that have bird baths and standing water that breed mosquitoes. I wish I could complain on them.

[Anonymous]

Yep. Neighbors don’t mind, and, in fact, spray for mosquitoes as well.
I agree that neighbors who have standing water irritate me more.

[Anonymous]

We sprayed last summer and it did not work

[Anonymous]

Most of our neighbors spray, as do we.

[Anonymous]

Spraying for mosquitoes does not work in dense suburbs for exactly the reason the PP stated, if your neighbor is breeding mosquitoes your efforts are futile.

Bird bath water can be fine if it is changed regularly and/or they use BTI dunks, which I do. BTI dunks won't hurt birds or wildlife but kill mosquito larvae. There are also BTI pellets which I sprinkle in boggy areas that seem to collect water after rain. Mosquitos can breed in a teaspoon of water, so all the spraying in the world won't help if it rains the next day.

The problem with spraying is one, it is extremely toxic and two that it kills beneficial insects and animals, many of which eat mosquitoes. Bats, some birds, dragonflies, mosquito hawks, garden toads -- all eat mosquitoes and are harmed by pesticides.

There are botanical repellants that will last about two weeks, which I have used, and are pretty effective. Mosquito Squad offers this service.

[Anonymous]

Mosquitoes breed in damp organic matter and this has me thinking that open compost piles might also be a problem, in addition to untreated birdbaths, etc. Do you throw the pellets on the compost pile as well? I'm not sure that would be effective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Spraying for mosquitoes does not work in dense suburbs for exactly the reason the PP stated, if your neighbor is breeding mosquitoes your efforts are futile.

Bird bath water can be fine if it is changed regularly and/or they use BTI dunks, which I do. BTI dunks won't hurt birds or wildlife but kill mosquito larvae. There are also BTI pellets which I sprinkle in boggy areas that seem to collect water after rain. Mosquitos can breed in a teaspoon of water, so all the spraying in the world won't help if it rains the next day.

The problem with spraying is one, it is extremely toxic and two that it kills beneficial insects and animals, many of which eat mosquitoes. Bats, some birds, dragonflies, mosquito hawks, garden toads -- all eat mosquitoes and are harmed by pesticides.

There are botanical repellants that will last about two weeks, which I have used, and are pretty effective. Mosquito Squad offers this service.

+10000

Most people are too stupid to realize this, and keep poisoning things instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Spraying for mosquitoes does not work in dense suburbs for exactly the reason the PP stated, if your neighbor is breeding mosquitoes your efforts are futile.

Bird bath water can be fine if it is changed regularly and/or they use BTI dunks, which I do. BTI dunks won't hurt birds or wildlife but kill mosquito larvae. There are also BTI pellets which I sprinkle in boggy areas that seem to collect water after rain. Mosquitos can breed in a teaspoon of water, so all the spraying in the world won't help if it rains the next day.

The problem with spraying is one, it is extremely toxic and two that it kills beneficial insects and animals, many of which eat mosquitoes. Bats, some birds, dragonflies, mosquito hawks, garden toads -- all eat mosquitoes and are harmed by pesticides.

There are botanical repellants that will last about two weeks, which I have used, and are pretty effective. Mosquito Squad offers this service.

+10000

Most people are too stupid to realize this, and keep poisoning things instead.

Yeah cause west nile is great

[Anonymous]

Our city sprays neighborhoods once a month late at night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Spraying for mosquitoes does not work in dense suburbs for exactly the reason the PP stated, if your neighbor is breeding mosquitoes your efforts are futile.

Bird bath water can be fine if it is changed regularly and/or they use BTI dunks, which I do. BTI dunks won't hurt birds or wildlife but kill mosquito larvae. There are also BTI pellets which I sprinkle in boggy areas that seem to collect water after rain. Mosquitos can breed in a teaspoon of water, so all the spraying in the world won't help if it rains the next day.

The problem with spraying is one, it is extremely toxic and two that it kills beneficial insects and animals, many of which eat mosquitoes. Bats, some birds, dragonflies, mosquito hawks, garden toads -- all eat mosquitoes and are harmed by pesticides.

There are botanical repellants that will last about two weeks, which I have used, and are pretty effective. Mosquito Squad offers this service.

+10000

Most people are too stupid to realize this, and keep poisoning things instead.

+1

[Anonymous]

Ah the annual Mosquito Squad debate. Let me get my popcorn.

We spray. Most of our neighbors spray.

We tried not to the first year and had no standing water, nothing to attract mosquitoes. And we were all bit to hell and eventually felt like we had to confine ourselves indoors from May to August.

Now we play outside every day it isn't raining, and eat outdoors virtually every day. We have cookouts on the weekends, raging block parties, and only go inside to sleep.

We maintain a wildlife zone outside the spray area and have solitary bee homes which work wonders, we have tons of wildlife, bees, bats, butterflies etc. Just no mosquitoes biting us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Spraying for mosquitoes does not work in dense suburbs for exactly the reason the PP stated, if your neighbor is breeding mosquitoes your efforts are futile.

Bird bath water can be fine if it is changed regularly and/or they use BTI dunks, which I do. BTI dunks won't hurt birds or wildlife but kill mosquito larvae. There are also BTI pellets which I sprinkle in boggy areas that seem to collect water after rain. Mosquitos can breed in a teaspoon of water, so all the spraying in the world won't help if it rains the next day.

The problem with spraying is one, it is extremely toxic and two that it kills beneficial insects and animals, many of which eat mosquitoes. Bats, some birds, dragonflies, mosquito hawks, garden toads -- all eat mosquitoes and are harmed by pesticides.

There are botanical repellants that will last about two weeks, which I have used, and are pretty effective. Mosquito Squad offers this service.


+10000

Most people are too stupid to realize this, and keep poisoning things instead.



Yeah cause west nile is great

Yep the dreaded west Nile....

[Anonymous]

Oh crap, is it time to spray? I am not too late?