How much do you pay for mosquito control?

[Anonymous]

Please people…fan or big repellant. Don’t kill every beneficial insect just to get rid of mosquitos!

[Anonymous]

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.

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.

+1.Way more success with GAT traps and targeted usage of dunks than spraying which only kills a small percent of mosquitos anyway, and experience comes from living near the mosquito ridden Anacostia river.

[Anonymous]

Spraying is my one eco-crime and will remain so. I have organic mattresses, no-waste lunches, etc. I hated going this chemical route but the other option was moving.

My children are horribly allergic to the bites they get within 10 seconds (literally) of being outside. When they were younger they would pick and scratch and the wounds would get infected. If they don’t have deer near their eyes, they get bites on their eyelids.

I live in a rowhouse and can’t control what the neighbors do in their yards. Dunks, fans etc. are a joke when you’re a few feet from neighbors and have a sensitivity.

We even know which playgrounds spray and those are the only ones we visit in the summer. The city needs to invest in genetic engineering rather than make us suffer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Spraying is my one eco-crime and will remain so. I have organic mattresses, no-waste lunches, etc. I hated going this chemical route but the other option was moving.

My children are horribly allergic to the bites they get within 10 seconds (literally) of being outside. When they were younger they would pick and scratch and the wounds would get infected. If they don’t have deer near their eyes, they get bites on their eyelids.

I live in a rowhouse and can’t control what the neighbors do in their yards. Dunks, fans etc. are a joke when you’re a few feet from neighbors and have a sensitivity.

We even know which playgrounds spray and those are the only ones we visit in the summer. The city needs to invest in genetic engineering rather than make us suffer

Or you could talk to your neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Nothing house is on a grade away from the foundation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Spraying is my one eco-crime and will remain so. I have organic mattresses, no-waste lunches, etc. I hated going this chemical route but the other option was moving.

My children are horribly allergic to the bites they get within 10 seconds (literally) of being outside. When they were younger they would pick and scratch and the wounds would get infected. If they don’t have deer near their eyes, they get bites on their eyelids.

I live in a rowhouse and can’t control what the neighbors do in their yards. Dunks, fans etc. are a joke when you’re a few feet from neighbors and have a sensitivity.

We even know which playgrounds spray and those are the only ones we visit in the summer. The city needs to invest in genetic engineering rather than make us suffer

Or you could talk to your neighbors.

And also spray your family instead of the world around you. But I don't expect common sense from someone who thinks it's within the purview of the D.C. government to tackle genetically engineering mosquitoes.

[Anonymous]

Live in the country and the bats and birds take care of the mosquitoes. It’s wonderful.

[Anonymous]

I use the fungus cubes from Home Depot. Works every time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My neighbors three doors away do that bug treatment every year and we have less of every type of bug in our yard now /[/quote

These work and don’t kill other bugs:

https://summitchemical.com/products/mosquito-dunks/

[Anonymous]

Trying again

Use these mosquito dunks because they don’t kill other bugs.

https://summitchemical.com/products/mosquito-dunks/