It could also be the incredible amounts of malathion they have been spraying via
air to kill mosquitoes. Incredibly enough, my mother opens her door onto her
100 foot balcony to a water bird sanctuary where turtles lay eggs in her yard
each year and where there are enough swallows to eat billions of mosquitoes, yet
they still sprayed malathion from the crop duster. It even hospitalized her for
a week on a breathing machine, not respirator (I forget what they call it) but
she was an enigma. Positively nothing was found and the malathion was blamed.

After that horror of bird drop, they switched to using Bt-I in the waters.


On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 02:34:30 GMT, "DKat" wrote:

I swear that since I put in my pond and fish (quite a few years now) that
mosquitos are hardly a problem. Even with this incredibly wet spring (Long
Island) I haven't seen any swarms as there should be. When I do go out in
the yard the place I get hit is far away from the pond. Oh, and using
ammonia on the bites cuts down on the itching a lot. You can buy an
expensive little tube of it that is made specifically for bites but the
cheap stuff out of the bottle works just the same. DK


"Salty Thumb" wrote in message
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(John) wrote in
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I have been impressed and confused by the thread for the Liberty
Mosquito trap. I used mine the entire last summer, went through three
tanks of propane, and did not capture more that a dozen mosquitos!

You didn't say, but are you still having problems with mosquitos biting?
I
mean if there's not at lot of mosquitos around (maybe something/body else
got them), you're not going to catch many.