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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A plea again for people to plant native perennials. The annoying mosquitos are the invasive tiger mosquitos and, as you know, they’re active during the day when bats (the usual mosquito patrollers) are sound asleep. You need to have native birds (many of which will eat all manner of tiny flying insects, including mosquitos) and predatory insects and they are brought by native plants.

If you have grass and some evergreen bushes and some pretty annuals, you have a food desert as far as birds and pollinators are concerned.

Even better if you and several other neighbors coordinate and plant a lot![/quote]

[b]We've got all of those things, see birds galore[/b], and are still eaten alive within seconds of leaving our house. Agree that the absolute worst are the mosquitos that fly in, or work their way under the window screens. I love opening windows whenever I can, but this year, I'll be running the AC over opening the windows for sure.[/quote]
That’s wonderful! Do your neighbors? Mine don’t. I live in a 1970s neighborhood that doesn’t have an HOA but may as well for how sterile the lawns are and how many bird and insect-killing chemicals are used. It cannot be a yard here and a yard there of native plants; it just isn’t enough to make a dent. Bird populations are cratering, so while you have birds galore in your yard, it’s not a patch on what there [i]used[/i] to be. https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/bring-birds-back/[/quote]

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