"Jez Phillips" wrote in message =
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| Hi
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| Grateful for advice or to hear from anyone who has experience of =
similar
| situation.
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| I have a pond in my garden. My neighbour is concerned that at dusk the =
pond
| attracts mosquitoes, which then go off to their house and bite them. I =
think
| they have suffered allergic reations to the bites.
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| They have suggested spraying DDT to kill the mosquitoes.
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| Here's the state of the pond:
| * No pump
| * Full of oxygenating plants & netted in winter to keep leaves out, so =
water
| not a stagnant soup
| * Full of tadpoles, pond skaters, damselflies, a few ramshorn snails, =
other
| critters
| * No sighting of mosquito larvae
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| Our gardenssnip

Just had a look at a site that states that mozzies have a flying range =
of 300yds from 'home', and can breed in as little as a teaspoon of =
water!=20

I suggest the neighbours hunt around in a 300 yard radius for all =
sources of stagnant water (it'd be ironic if the source was in their =
garden!)

see:

http://tinyurl.com/d9eo

It also suggests a way of dealing with them (ecologically sound)...