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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I live on a small lot in AU Park. My neighbors don't spray but we do (Mosquito Squad). It makes a huge difference. We can actually sit outside without being bothered by mosquitoes at all. Relax and just spray, you'll be glad you did.[/quote]

Yes. The chemical kills mosquitos on contact. The insecticide has a fixing agent that allows it to adhere to everything it comes in contact with in your yard. It takes a few weeks for the insecticide to break down. So you are sitting in insecticide. It will contaminate your clothing and be absorbed through your skin. [/quote]

Yeah - no worries when you die of cancer at age 50 :)  Or your kids for gods sake.  Why?  Wearing DEET is better than that.  I don't get.  Wear long sleeve clothing, try to eliminate standing water, get a bat house,  build a screened in porch.  I find the mosquitoes are usually only bad for about two months - mid-July through August depending on the type of season we are having.  [/quote]

Sorry they were in my yard April to October before spraying. And no ,we do not wish to be confined to our screened porch (which we have) 6 months of the year.[/quote]

Turn on an outdoor fan, people  :roll: [/quote]

Exactly.  It's that easy.  Ever tried it?  It works better than any amount of poison (which ends up in your water, btw). [/quote]

The fan only works if you're sitting on your porch. Also, you have to have a porch in the first place, which we do not. We have 1/10th of an acre -- pretty small lot. It takes about 1 minute to walk from the street up to our door with a toddler. Before last summer, I would get about 15 bites in that 1 minute. And if we stayed out for 10 minutes so my son could run around a bit, I'd get 40. (Amazingly, DS didn't get any, and DH rarely did either, but I have always been a mosquito magnet.) I used to garden in a beekeper outfit to keep them away. In 100 degree weather. My SIL wouldn't come over in the summer because she reacts so strongly to mosquito bites -- a single bite swells to amazing proportions and then leaves a permanent scar -- and she also couldn't make it from her car to our house without being bitten.

Last summer I was pregnant and we finally sprayed for the first time. It was amazing. I didn't get a single bite in my yard the entire summer. (Did get a few bites in other people's yards.) And we were outside for an hour plus. No bites. The spray stuff definitely works. I feel bad about spraying, and I'm not going to grow vegetables while we do it -- not that I have the time with a 3 year old and a newborn anyway -- but I just couldn't live like that anymore. And before you ask, yes, we checked for standing water, we used bug spray on ourselves, we have underground piping that pipes the water away from the house (for flood issues), etc etc. Only the industrial spray has made any difference. I guess we'll see what happens this summer.[/quote][/quote]
People aren't talking about ceiling fans on your porch, they're talking about box or industrial fans that you can put in your yard and patio.[/quote]

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