Anonymous wrote:I’ll take a few less friendly insects, bees and butterfly’s in my yard to not contract Western Equine Encephalitis from a mosquito. A friend of mine was biting by a mosquito and he can’t say his name or walk without a Walker anymore. He is 25!

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Anonymous wrote:...Mosquito Squad has a cedarwood oil option that isn't harmful to polinators.

I can’t imagine how that would be possible. Cedarwood oil is just as toxic to pollinators as their other options and if it’s sprayed on the pollinators’ nests or directly on them, it’ll kill them too.

Anonymous wrote:Are the ring type mosquito dunks preferable to the crumbly bit type or does it matter? I put them in my outdoor drains and the bottom of planters and where wet leaves collect and are slow to dry before I can remove them.

Never was sure if I should use one vs the other.

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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.

No, we know. We also know that for your comfort you’re demolishing entire insect and bird ecosystems.

Doesn’t your city do mosquito dunks? Presumably if you live in an area that is “perpetually damp,” it’s something that your city or county treats, no?

Ironically, if you made your yards hospitable to a range of birds, they’d help attack the tiger mosquito populations (even Orkin thinks so: https://www.orkin.com/pests/mosquitoes/what-eats-mosquitoes) But you’re too busy poisoning your neighborhood and, I would suspect, that you are of the c lawn that is regularly chemically treated with absolutely no native plants homeowners, thereby guaranteeing that you have no birds (and no bats, but tiger mosquitos are active all day when bats are not).

You can fix this. You just don’t like the fix.

Nope. Wrong. Crunchy AF over here. Putting in what we can on property we have control over, including native plantings. But we have to be able to go outside to do it. Our city that your "progressive" butt probably doesn't want to live in (PG) doesn't do squat. The polinators seem to do fine with the treatment we pay for.

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:Need some pricing for DC area 1/4 acre

We pay about $450 per season, and they come spray every few weeks. You can also ask them to come a day before you have an outdoor party for no extra money. It works really well and we back up to woods. Still have tons of bees and butterflies, it has made the yard bearable for all of us. If we are just sitting outside rather than running around, I use this Thermacell:


https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/mosquito-control-gear/

Anonymous wrote:We spray. Have to. Pisses off my hippie neighbors but oh well.

Anonymous wrote:You can buy the same paralytic insecticide all the vendors use. I got it off amazon along with a 10 gallon sprayer. Total cost of $80 and its good for 4 acres.

I live in low lying Alexandria where the mosquitos really are insane. Like, you simply could be outside without getting destroyed. Now, I use the pesticide and they are gone. All of them. It's like a miracle.

I couldn't care less what it does to the bees and butterflies. I'm on this earth for my life, not theirs.

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Anonymous wrote:^^and adding a pair of bio gent traps, thanks for the rec!

Not the pp who recommended but I am really hoping it works out for you.

I think the more homeowners who put in native plants to draw more butterflies that lay eggs that turn into caterpillars that feed birds and baby birds means that there will be more birds to eat the mosquitos, but it can’t be a one off in a neighborhood. There are other native plants that will draw predatory wasps (they don’t bother people, they’re not that kind of wasp) that will also predate the invasive mosquitos. We have to change how we approach our landscaping because it looks like those horribly irritating skeeters are here to stay.

Anonymous wrote:I’ll take a few less friendly insects, bees and butterfly’s in my yard to not contract Western Equine Encephalitis from a mosquito. A friend of mine was biting by a mosquito and he can’t say his name or walk without a Walker anymore. He is 25!

Anonymous wrote:You can buy the same paralytic insecticide all the vendors use. I got it off amazon along with a 10 gallon sprayer. Total cost of $80 and its good for 4 acres.

I live in low lying Alexandria where the mosquitos really are insane. Like, you simply could be outside without getting destroyed. Now, I use the pesticide and they are gone. All of them. It's like a miracle.

I couldn't care less what it does to the bees and butterflies. I'm on this earth for my life, not theirs.

Anonymous wrote:Spray, baby, spray!

Nothing else works.