Mike Patterson wrote in message
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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 19:20:13 -0400, " George"
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"Mike Patterson" wrote in
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On 06 Jul 2004 20:59:52 GMT, EROSPAM (Ka30P) wrote:


Since we've had the pond we've hardly ever seen a mosquito.
The other thing a pond attracts is dragon and damselflies to lay
their eggs.
They are also mosquito eating machines. One insect will eat them in
the
thousands.


kathy :-)
algae primer
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Ya know, I have 17 medium fish and dozens of baby fish plus I
counted
6 dragonflies buzzing around yesterday, but I'm still getting
bitten.

Maybe I need to make a sacrifice to the Pond Gods.


I suspect that your pond is not the source of the mosquitos.


Yeah, I think you're right.

I have a one-acre lot surrounded by hundreds of other one-to-five-acre
lots. Somebody somewhere around here is breeding skeeters...

All it takes is one old rubber tire lying around in a field somewhere
and trapping a bit of rainwater and there's your source. Not to mention
rainwater-holding knot-holes in trees, you wouldn't believe what breeds
in those. I worked with a woman at Oxford University who spent her
whole career studying the things that live in watery knot-holes in
trees.

s.