We live in a semi-rural area - houses 100 yards or so apart - and
have a serious problems with mosquitos bedding down around the house in
shrubs, etc. There's a row of holly next to the garage, for example,
if you agitate it with a stick, HUNDREDS of mosquitos come pouring out.
They're also collecting under our deck, and a couple of other places.

I tried spraying the holly very thoroughly, inside and out, with a
general purpose insecticide from Home Depot - triazine, something like
that, it was in a red plastic bottle. It had NO effect on the
mosquitos. What can we spray these places with to kill them? How about
malathion? And please, bunny-huggers and anti-pesticide loonies, don't
bother..

Thanks
Ron M. in central Texas

I am not sure where you live, but most of the good stuff isnt available to
consumers for good reason. Contact your county's health dept and see if they
will spray them for free. It is a public health risk.

Mike Robinson wrote:
I am not sure where you live, but most of the good stuff isnt available to
consumers for good reason. Contact your county's health dept and see if they
will spray them for free. It is a public health risk.

I'm beginning to get that impression. You would think there's SOMETHING
I could just spray some bushes with that would kill them. I'm not
talking about large-scale eradication, just spraying a row of bushes
and under the deck. I know about county agents, but I seriously doubt
that I could pursuade one to come 30 miles out of town just to spray
under somebody's porch.

Thanks anyway, though,
Ron

In article .com,
wrote:

You would think there's SOMETHING
I could just spray some bushes with that would kill them.

DDT... Effective and safe. Unfortunately, you'll have to find someone
with pre-ban stock.

Dave Balderstone wrote:
In article .com,
wrote:

You would think there's SOMETHING
I could just spray some bushes with that would kill them.

DDT... Effective and safe. Unfortunately, you'll have to find someone
with pre-ban stock.

Ask for some ester of sivex for htc weed control too.

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Steveo wrote:
Ask for some ester of sivex
^silvex^

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wrote in
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Mike Robinson wrote:
I am not sure where you live, but most of the good stuff
isnt available to consumers for good reason. Contact your
county's health dept and see if they will spray them for
free. It is a public health risk.

I'm beginning to get that impression. You would think
there's SOMETHING I could just spray some bushes with that
would kill them. I'm not talking about large-scale
eradication, just spraying a row of bushes and under the
deck. I know about county agents, but I seriously doubt
that I could pursuade one to come 30 miles out of town just
to spray under somebody's porch.

mosquitoes don't travel more than 100yards from point of
origin, so the first thing you need to do is get rid of any
standing water. if water puddles under your deck (or in your
gutters) for 4 days or longer, you're breeding mosquitoes.
those mosquito magnet things that run on propane do work for
small yards. put it as far from the deck as you can so you
don't bring the mosquitoes to you.
i have over 20 acres of marsh & wetlands, but since i'm a
fanatic about standing water & we got the chickens, we have no
mosquitoes near the house. the mosquitoes in the swamp don't
fly up to the house. go down there & you get eaten alive
though

lee
--
war is peace
freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength
1984-George Orwell

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:06:55 +0000 (UTC), enigma
wrote:

wrote in
roups.com:


Mike Robinson wrote:
I am not sure where you live, but most of the good stuff
isnt available to consumers for good reason. Contact your
county's health dept and see if they will spray them for
free. It is a public health risk.

I'm beginning to get that impression. You would think
there's SOMETHING I could just spray some bushes with that
would kill them. I'm not talking about large-scale
eradication, just spraying a row of bushes and under the
deck. I know about county agents, but I seriously doubt
that I could pursuade one to come 30 miles out of town just
to spray under somebody's porch.

mosquitoes don't travel more than 100yards from point of
origin, so the first thing you need to do is get rid of any
standing water. if water puddles under your deck (or in your
gutters) for 4 days or longer, you're breeding mosquitoes.
those mosquito magnet things that run on propane do work for
small yards. put it as far from the deck as you can so you
don't bring the mosquitoes to you.
i have over 20 acres of marsh & wetlands, but since i'm a
fanatic about standing water & we got the chickens, we have no
mosquitoes near the house. the mosquitoes in the swamp don't
fly up to the house. go down there & you get eaten alive
though

lee


There are an awful lot of mosquito varieties in Texas,
and they all behave differently.
The texas cooperative extension has this to
say about controlling them:

http://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/l-1744.html

enigma wrote:

[....]

mosquitoes don't travel more than 100yards from point of
origin, so the first thing you need to do is get rid of any
standing water. if water puddles under your deck (or in your
gutters) for 4 days or longer, you're breeding mosquitoes.
those mosquito magnet things that run on propane do work for
small yards. put it as far from the deck as you can so you
don't bring the mosquitoes to you.
i have over 20 acres of marsh & wetlands, but since i'm a
fanatic about standing water & we got the chickens, we have no
mosquitoes near the house. the mosquitoes in the swamp don't
fly up to the house. go down there & you get eaten alive
though

GOOD JOB Lee! treat the source origin of the problem by removing
the mosquitoes ability to breed in an area where we really don't
want to have mosquitoes.

my 4 acres of marsh & wetlands is recently redefined by the county
tax office as waste land. I asked, is that because the mosquitoes
are in charge down there? county tax agent LOL and gave me a nice
tax break on this Farm as a result of being made aware of what the
county soil and water agent already knew. looks like the county
tax agent and the county soil and water agent would have talked
this over during one of their governmental guy-type trips to europe
or hawaii before I got my new tax bill and began the protest... sure
was nice of the county soil and water agent to help me out at that
point by explaining to the county tax agent how he'd never be able to
put a yankee house down there in that swamp. it was then 4 acres of
marsh & wetlands got redefined as waste land. I'm guessing if the tax
agent can't see a future revenue from a relocated yankee then it's waste
land and with that idea, next I'm going to attempt to have my entire Farm
redefined as waste land. can't hurt to try..

my advice to the original poster would be to inspect their entire
1/4 acre estate for inconspicuously placed cat food cans filled
with water, like LOOK under the deck or all through the hedge.
turn over a little mulch in that hedge





lee
--
war is peace
freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength
1984-George Orwell

Your best bet is to opt for a mosquito magnet, They work wonderfully.

Another option is to install several bat houses, one brown bat can eat up to
3000 mosquitoes each night.

~Liss
www.budget101.com

wrote:
We live in a semi-rural area - houses 100 yards or so apart - and
have a serious problems with mosquitos bedding down around the house in
shrubs, etc. There's a row of holly next to the garage, for example,
if you agitate it with a stick, HUNDREDS of mosquitos come pouring out.
They're also collecting under our deck, and a couple of other places.

I tried spraying the holly very thoroughly, inside and out, with a
general purpose insecticide from Home Depot - triazine, something like
that, it was in a red plastic bottle. It had NO effect on the
mosquitos. What can we spray these places with to kill them? How about
malathion? And please, bunny-huggers and anti-pesticide loonies, don't
bother..

Thanks
Ron M. in central Texas


Have you considered sneaking some of those bats from under that bridge
in Austin?
All kidding aside. After we successfully evicted the bat colony from
our attic, we began to notice the mosquitoes as an annoyance. In the
succeeding 2 years, the external bat house acquired tenants, there is
evidence that they're present in some of the outbuildings, (but nothing
like what it was like when the breeding colony was in the house) and
the mosquito population has fallen back below the annoyance threshold.

Or you could try attracting Purple Martins

And if all else fails, see if you can locate one of those "Yard Fogger"
type aerosol cans and fog the living daylights out of the holly bushes.


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The biggest problem with our bounty of coal is not what it does
to our mountains or the atmosphere, but what it does to our minds.
It preserves the illusion that we don't have to change our lives.
Given the profound challenges we face with the end of cheap oil
and the arrival of global warming, this is a dangerous fantasy.

wrote in message
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We live in a semi-rural area - houses 100 yards or so apart - and
have a serious problems with mosquitos bedding down around the house in
shrubs, etc. There's a row of holly next to the garage, for example,
if you agitate it with a stick, HUNDREDS of mosquitos come pouring out.
They're also collecting under our deck, and a couple of other places.

I tried spraying the holly very thoroughly, inside and out, with a
general purpose insecticide from Home Depot - triazine, something like
that, it was in a red plastic bottle. It had NO effect on the
mosquitos. What can we spray these places with to kill them? How about
malathion? And please, bunny-huggers and anti-pesticide loonies, don't
bother..

Thanks
Ron M. in central Texas


I just read in another group the way to limit skeeters in living areas.

Take a white plate and fill with water. Add a couple drops of Lemon
Fresh Joy dishwashing detergent. Set it away from where people sit.

The skeeters will be attracted to the white dish or the lemon smell or
whatever, drink the soapy solution, and die within 10 feet of the plate.

Pretty easy and cheap to try. Let us know how it works on them Texas
skeeters. ;

Deb
--
If *I* ran the world, we'd all face different challenges! ;

Well, I'm going to try a product called Mosquito-B-Gone. It's in a
plastic bottle you screw onto the end of a water hose, then spray it.
Should work.

Ron

wrote in message
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Well, I'm going to try a product called Mosquito-B-Gone. It's in a
plastic bottle you screw onto the end of a water hose, then spray it.
Should work.

Ron

I've used this product, and do find that it helps for a few days. I spray
the house, deck, shrubs, trees, and anything else within hose distance.

I don't think this product kills the critters. I think it just drives them
away.

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:29:38 -0400, Kyle Boatright wrote:


wrote in message
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Well, I'm going to try a product called Mosquito-B-Gone. It's in a
plastic bottle you screw onto the end of a water hose, then spray it.
Should work.

Ron

I've used this product, and do find that it helps for a few days. I spray
the house, deck, shrubs, trees, and anything else within hose distance.

I don't think this product kills the critters. I think it just drives them
away.

What it doesn't do is kill the larva, so there will be a new batch in a
couple days.