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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]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. [/quote]

If it's wet enough for mosquitos to breed in, it's not a compost pile.  It's a rotting pile.  [/quote]

Very true. My compost pile doesn't breed mosquitoes...I keep it moist like a limply wrung out sponge. [/quote]

NP.  I see what you mean.  We have a rotting pile, rather than a compost pile.  Essentially, all yard waste like branches, brush, leaves, dead plants and grass, are heaped up next to the fence.  We don't turn it or anything.  Over a few years it rots, but we just keep piling more dead stuff on it.  We have about 80 feet of this now along the back side fence.  It does get boggy because we are the downhill neighbor and our heap of rotting vegetation holds any water that might naturally run into our yard.  It's sort of like a rotting berm at the bottom of the fence.  In addition to the mosquitoes, we also seem to have a lot of flies in the summer. [b] Do you think that the pile we've created has anything to do with the mosquitoes and flies? [/b] [/quote]

Yes.

Get rid of the stuff (which is probably also ruining and rotting your fence).  Then if you wish to start a compost pile, do that.  But don't just pile crap![/quote]

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