How much do you pay for mosquito control?

[Anonymous]

Spray, baby, spray!

Nothing else works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Spray, baby, spray!

Nothing else works.

I think this Rachel Carson quote is for you. “Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. […] Now, I truly believe, that we in this generation, must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can buy the same paralytic insecticide all the vendors use. I got it off amazon along with a 10 gallon sprayer. Total cost of $80 and its good for 4 acres.

I live in low lying Alexandria where the mosquitos really are insane. Like, you simply could be outside without getting destroyed. Now, I use the pesticide and they are gone. All of them. It's like a miracle.

I couldn't care less what it does to the bees and butterflies. I'm on this earth for my life, not theirs.

As a trained and licensed applicator for the state of MD, can I ask what a paralytic insecticide is? Never heard of it and wouldn't use something with that name around children or pets. Products I use are safe when applie correctly, much more safe than Lyme disease, Zika, west Nile etc.

[Anonymous]

Please dont do this. It kills bees. Use mosquito dunks.

[Anonymous]

I’ll take a few less friendly insects, bees and butterfly’s in my yard to not contract Western Equine Encephalitis from a mosquito. A friend of mine was biting by a mosquito and he can’t say his name or walk without a Walker anymore. He is 25!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll take a few less friendly insects, bees and butterfly’s in my yard to not contract Western Equine Encephalitis from a mosquito. A friend of mine was biting by a mosquito and he can’t say his name or walk without a Walker anymore. He is 25!

Those things that kill everything are short acting. You’re better off with mosquito traps, which reduce the overall mosquito population in the long run by killing the larvae, and bug spray. If you can get the neighbors to adopt it as well, you will see significant improvements. Less harm to the environment, less expensive, and more effective.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^and adding a pair of bio gent traps, thanks for the rec!

Not the pp who recommended but I am really hoping it works out for you.

I think the more homeowners who put in native plants to draw more butterflies that lay eggs that turn into caterpillars that feed birds and baby birds means that there will be more birds to eat the mosquitos, but it can’t be a one off in a neighborhood. There are other native plants that will draw predatory wasps (they don’t bother people, they’re not that kind of wasp) that will also predate the invasive mosquitos. We have to change how we approach our landscaping because it looks like those horribly irritating skeeters are here to stay.

I've started letting the garden spiders just chill on my deck plants and build their webs between them. It has actually really cut down on the mosquitos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can buy the same paralytic insecticide all the vendors use. I got it off amazon along with a 10 gallon sprayer. Total cost of $80 and its good for 4 acres.

I live in low lying Alexandria where the mosquitos really are insane. Like, you simply could be outside without getting destroyed. Now, I use the pesticide and they are gone. All of them. It's like a miracle.

I couldn't care less what it does to the bees and butterflies. I'm on this earth for my life, not theirs.

Guess you don't understand where most of your food comes from, huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We spray. Have to. Pisses off my hippie neighbors but oh well.

You sound like a peach.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Need some pricing for DC area 1/4 acre

We pay about $450 per season, and they come spray every few weeks. You can also ask them to come a day before you have an outdoor party for no extra money. It works really well and we back up to woods. Still have tons of bees and butterflies, it has made the yard bearable for all of us. If we are just sitting outside rather than running around, I use this Thermacell:


https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/mosquito-control-gear/

You're inhaling poison. That's why you can't use Thermacell around food or cats. Read what the EU has to say about d-allethrin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have an industrial mosquito farm in our backyard that abutts to a perpetually damp area. The little striped tiger mosquitos don't even need standing water to bread. Damp soil will do. We pay Mosquito Squad to poison the hell out of them. It's the difference between being able to go outside and not. Worth it for us.

+1

The people saying 'don't spray' have no idea what it's like to live in a mosquito infested area.

Oh please. We live here too. Some of understand that poison is not the answer. I use a combo of GAT Traps, mosquito dunks, and fans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have an industrial mosquito farm in our backyard that abutts to a perpetually damp area. The little striped tiger mosquitos don't even need standing water to bread. Damp soil will do. We pay Mosquito Squad to poison the hell out of them. It's the difference between being able to go outside and not. Worth it for us.

+1

The people saying 'don't spray' have no idea what it's like to live in a mosquito infested area.

No, we know. We also know that for your comfort you’re demolishing entire insect and bird ecosystems.

Doesn’t your city do mosquito dunks? Presumably if you live in an area that is “perpetually damp,” it’s something that your city or county treats, no?

Ironically, if you made your yards hospitable to a range of birds, they’d help attack the tiger mosquito populations (even Orkin thinks so: https://www.orkin.com/pests/mosquitoes/what-eats-mosquitoes) But you’re too busy poisoning your neighborhood and, I would suspect, that you are of the c lawn that is regularly chemically treated with absolutely no native plants homeowners, thereby guaranteeing that you have no birds (and no bats, but tiger mosquitos are active all day when bats are not).

You can fix this. You just don’t like the fix.

Nope. Wrong. Crunchy AF over here. Putting in what we can on property we have control over, including native plantings. But we have to be able to go outside to do it. Our city that your "progressive" butt probably doesn't want to live in (PG) doesn't do squat. The polinators seem to do fine with the treatment we pay for.

Your reasoning makes no sense. It's like saying cancer doesn't kill people because you still see plenty of people around. The reality is that you are luring pollinators and then poisoning them. Nice job, "Crunchy AF."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are the ring type mosquito dunks preferable to the crumbly bit type or does it matter? I put them in my outdoor drains and the bottom of planters and where wet leaves collect and are slow to dry before I can remove them.

Never was sure if I should use one vs the other.

You can use either Mosquito Dunks or Mosquito Bits. If you use a Dunk for a small area, you only need to break off a tiny bit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:...Mosquito Squad has a cedarwood oil option that isn't harmful to polinators.

I can’t imagine how that would be possible. Cedarwood oil is just as toxic to pollinators as their other options and if it’s sprayed on the pollinators’ nests or directly on them, it’ll kill them too.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ll take a few less friendly insects, bees and butterfly’s in my yard to not contract Western Equine Encephalitis from a mosquito. A friend of mine was biting by a mosquito and he can’t say his name or walk without a Walker anymore. He is 25!

The CDC says there have been no human cases of Western Equine Encephalitis reported in the U.S. since the 1990s.
https://www.cdc.gov/wee/about/index.html