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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Try this instead

https://www.gardensalive.com/product/its-time-to-trap-your-mosquitoes
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Last year the whole block banded together to buy traps but we didn't notice a bit of difference. They were still terrible and the traps caught maybe a dozen all summer.

Would love to know treatment options. We have a basement entrance to our apartment and the lower patio area is significantly cooler and always has a visible swarm of mosquitoes and flies. [/quote]

Don't build traps. The idea is to have the female mosquitoes lay their eggs in the water treated with BTI which prevents future adults from spawning, thus crashing the mosquito population. A trap just kills the one mosquito, but won't prevent the eggs already laid from spawning. [/quote]

Didn't mention it but I also did that. We have a drain that always has standing water and I treat that with no success. [/quote]

What do you mean by "no success"? No system will completely eliminate mosquitoes. The idea is to reduce the number of them in an area to make them less of a nuisance. Here is a recent study to help outline why attacking the larva is more effective than adults:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001706X18308106
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By no success I mean we still had a large swarm of mosquitoes outside our door. I don't believe it reduced the number at all. Maybe it did produce fewer offspring but due to the conditions by our door (cool basement patio entrance) we are actually attracting mosquitoes there. [/quote]

One problem may be the Traps. Why do you want to ATTRACTED Mosquitoes to your yard?? First step is to prevent, drain standing water, cut the grass, trim the shrubs. Next step is to treat the yard, wither synthetic or organic. But please DONT sue traps..again why attract MORE mosquitoes when you're trying to get rid of them?  [/quote]

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