Which is better, getting rid of *all* the standing water? Or leaving
one bucket full of stagnant water under a tree (to lure them to one
place) and putting one of those "mosquito dunks" in it?

I think I'm gonna try the latter this year.

I dumped out some little flower pots this afternoon and they were full
of wigglers already.

Bob

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:35:36 -0500, zxcvbob
wrote:

Which is better, getting rid of *all* the standing water? Or leaving
one bucket full of stagnant water under a tree (to lure them to one
place) and putting one of those "mosquito dunks" in it?

I think I'm gonna try the latter this year.

I dumped out some little flower pots this afternoon and they were full
of wigglers already.

Bob


Even better, put a rosy red minnow or goldfish in the bucket. Much
lower cost than those bacteria dunks. Water green with algae works
best.

cruel. put in the dunks. fish cannot tolerate the hot stagnant conditions of a
bucket.

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:08:54 -0400, Phisherman wrote:
Even better, put a rosy red minnow or goldfish in the bucket. Much
lower cost than those bacteria dunks. Water green with algae works
best.

On Jun 21, 11:09*am, wrote:
cruel. *put in the dunks. *fish cannot tolerate the hot stagnant conditions of a
bucket. *



On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:08:54 -0400, Phisherman wrote:
Even better, put a rosy red minnow or goldfish in the bucket. * Much
lower cost than those bacteria dunks. *Water green with algae works
best.- Hide quoted text -

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maybe a betta? they don't mind little stagnant puddles, according to
the experts.

Phisherman wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:35:36 -0500, zxcvbob
wrote:

Which is better, getting rid of *all* the standing water? Or leaving
one bucket full of stagnant water under a tree (to lure them to one
place) and putting one of those "mosquito dunks" in it?

I think I'm gonna try the latter this year.

I dumped out some little flower pots this afternoon and they were full
of wigglers already.

Bob


Even better, put a rosy red minnow or goldfish in the bucket. Much
lower cost than those bacteria dunks. Water green with algae works
best.


A couple of years ago, I had a huge flower pot full of water with a
lotus seedling in it and a few minnows. The lotus never bloomed, but it
did look pretty with it's big leaves that danced in the rain, and the
minnows seemed happy.

I was gonna plant a lotus seed last winter to try to get it going early
enough to bloom but I never got a round tuit. (I still have the lotus
seeds, and they keep pretty well.)

Bob

it is better to kill the female mosquito before she takes the requisite blood meal
needed to lay the eggs. mosquito magnets work. altho you got to get them going
BEFORE the swarms hit the area. Ingrid

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:35:36 -0500, zxcvbob wrote:

Which is better, getting rid of *all* the standing water? Or leaving
one bucket full of stagnant water under a tree (to lure them to one
place) and putting one of those "mosquito dunks" in it?

I think I'm gonna try the latter this year.

I dumped out some little flower pots this afternoon and they were full
of wigglers already.

Bob