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kills mosquitoes!
Just had this hint passed along to me from another gardeners' forum...kill those pesky and dangerous mosquitos: fill a white plate or bowl with water and add several drops of Lemon Fresh Joy dishwashing detergent, and set outside. Not sure why or how it works, but mosquitoes are attracted to the mixture, drink and fall dead, usually within a few feet of the bowl...especially good for those of us in the South who would like to spend a few minutes outdoors without spraying ourselves with chemicals. Set plates or bowls of mixture around patio, and watch the results!
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kills mosquitoes!
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 06:58:22 +0200, Kathie
wrote: Just had this hint passed along to me from another gardeners' forum...kill those pesky and dangerous mosquitos: fill a white plate or bowl with water and add several drops of Lemon Fresh Joy dishwashing detergent, and set outside. Not sure why or how it works, but mosquitoes are attracted to the mixture, drink and fall dead, usually within a few feet of the bowl...especially good for those of us in the South who would like to spend a few minutes outdoors without spraying ourselves with chemicals. Set plates or bowls of mixture around patio, and watch the results! Would be great if it works with flies also. Lee |
kills mosquitoes!
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 06:58:22 +0200, Kathie
wrote: Just had this hint passed along to me from another gardeners' forum...kill those pesky and dangerous mosquitos: fill a white plate or bowl with water and add several drops of Lemon Fresh Joy dishwashing detergent, and set outside. Not sure why or how it works, but mosquitoes are attracted to the mixture, drink and fall dead, usually within a few feet of the bowl...especially good for those of us in the South who would like to spend a few minutes outdoors without spraying ourselves with chemicals. Set plates or bowls of mixture around patio, and watch the results! Would be great if it works with flies also. Lee |
kills mosquitoes!
In article , NC_FUBAR wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 06:58:22 +0200, Kathie wrote: Just had this hint passed along to me from another gardeners' forum...kill those pesky and dangerous mosquitos: fill a white plate or bowl with water and add several drops of Lemon Fresh Joy dishwashing detergent, and set outside. Not sure why or how it works, but mosquitoes are attracted to the mixture, drink and fall dead, usually within a few feet of the bowl...especially good for those of us in the South who would like to spend a few minutes outdoors without spraying ourselves with chemicals. Set plates or bowls of mixture around patio, and watch the results! Would be great if it works with flies also. Being the resident skeptic, I doubt if this will work, but what the hey I think we have some so I will give it a try. The Mosquito Magic touted in the N&O recently is of dubious use. Lee -- Wes Dukes (wdukes.pobox@com) Swap the . and the @ to email me please. spam@www.spam.com is a garbage address. |
kills mosquitoes!
Same thing works for fleas inside your home....just place the white dish
under a light source (TV, nightlight, etc)& you'll be amazed at how many HUNDREDS of fleas you catch! "Kathie" wrote in message ... Just had this hint passed along to me from another gardeners' forum...kill those pesky and dangerous mosquitos: fill a white plate or bowl with water and add several drops of Lemon Fresh Joy dishwashing detergent, and set outside. Not sure why or how it works, but mosquitoes are attracted to the mixture, drink and fall dead, usually within a few feet of the bowl...especially good for those of us in the South who would like to spend a few minutes outdoors without spraying ourselves with chemicals. Set plates or bowls of mixture around patio, and watch the results! -- Kathie Kat ~=^..^=~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
kills mosquitoes!
Same thing works for fleas inside your home....just place the white dish
under a light source (TV, nightlight, etc)& you'll be amazed at how many HUNDREDS of fleas you catch! "Kathie" wrote in message ... Just had this hint passed along to me from another gardeners' forum...kill those pesky and dangerous mosquitos: fill a white plate or bowl with water and add several drops of Lemon Fresh Joy dishwashing detergent, and set outside. Not sure why or how it works, but mosquitoes are attracted to the mixture, drink and fall dead, usually within a few feet of the bowl...especially good for those of us in the South who would like to spend a few minutes outdoors without spraying ourselves with chemicals. Set plates or bowls of mixture around patio, and watch the results! -- Kathie Kat ~=^..^=~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
kills mosquitoes!
Same thing works for fleas inside your home....just place the white dish
under a light source (TV, nightlight, etc)& you'll be amazed at how many HUNDREDS of fleas you catch! "Kathie" wrote in message ... Just had this hint passed along to me from another gardeners' forum...kill those pesky and dangerous mosquitos: fill a white plate or bowl with water and add several drops of Lemon Fresh Joy dishwashing detergent, and set outside. Not sure why or how it works, but mosquitoes are attracted to the mixture, drink and fall dead, usually within a few feet of the bowl...especially good for those of us in the South who would like to spend a few minutes outdoors without spraying ourselves with chemicals. Set plates or bowls of mixture around patio, and watch the results! -- Kathie Kat ~=^..^=~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
kills mosquitoes!
Reckon it'd work with any dish detergent or just Joy?
Lee On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 04:32:42 GMT, "MNGal" wrote: Same thing works for fleas inside your home....just place the white dish under a light source (TV, nightlight, etc)& you'll be amazed at how many HUNDREDS of fleas you catch! "Kathie" wrote in message ... Just had this hint passed along to me from another gardeners' forum...kill those pesky and dangerous mosquitos: fill a white plate or bowl with water and add several drops of Lemon Fresh Joy dishwashing detergent, and set outside. Not sure why or how it works, but mosquitoes are attracted to the mixture, drink and fall dead, usually within a few feet of the bowl...especially good for those of us in the South who would like to spend a few minutes outdoors without spraying ourselves with chemicals. Set plates or bowls of mixture around patio, and watch the results! -- Kathie Kat ~=^..^=~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
kills mosquitoes!
basically what happens is that the soap breaks or reduces the water tension.
the mosquito will try to land on the water and instead of landing goes right through the water surface and drowns so any dish soap should work Same thing with the fleas The mosquito is not trying to drink the water (they drink blood) they are trying to land on it to lay their eggs. All in all not a bad deal, killing a pregnant mosquito can probably go quite far in reducing the population tomatolord "Kathie" wrote in message ... Just had this hint passed along to me from another gardeners' forum...kill those pesky and dangerous mosquitos: fill a white plate or bowl with water and add several drops of Lemon Fresh Joy dishwashing detergent, and set outside. Not sure why or how it works, but mosquitoes are attracted to the mixture, drink and fall dead, usually within a few feet of the bowl...especially good for those of us in the South who would like to spend a few minutes outdoors without spraying ourselves with chemicals. Set plates or bowls of mixture around patio, and watch the results! -- Kathie Kat ~=^..^=~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
kills mosquitoes!
However, my inference from that is that they are not going to land on the
Joy/water until AFTER they have bitten ME. Lovely! Doc "Tomatolord" wrote in message ... basically what happens is that the soap breaks or reduces the water tension. the mosquito will try to land on the water and instead of landing goes right through the water surface and drowns so any dish soap should work Same thing with the fleas The mosquito is not trying to drink the water (they drink blood) they are trying to land on it to lay their eggs. All in all not a bad deal, killing a pregnant mosquito can probably go quite far in reducing the population tomatolord "Kathie" wrote in message ... Just had this hint passed along to me from another gardeners' forum...kill those pesky and dangerous mosquitos: fill a white plate or bowl with water and add several drops of Lemon Fresh Joy dishwashing detergent, and set outside. Not sure why or how it works, but mosquitoes are attracted to the mixture, drink and fall dead, usually within a few feet of the bowl...especially good for those of us in the South who would like to spend a few minutes outdoors without spraying ourselves with chemicals. Set plates or bowls of mixture around patio, and watch the results! -- Kathie Kat ~=^..^=~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
kills mosquitoes!
well now this is TRUE since the female needs blood to become pregnant or
needs blood while pregnant i forget which...so you are basically killing mosquitos AFTER they have sucked somethings blood. but dont forget they could be sucking bird or animal blood somewhere Tlord "Doc Muhlbaier" wrote in message ... However, my inference from that is that they are not going to land on the Joy/water until AFTER they have bitten ME. Lovely! Doc "Tomatolord" wrote in message ... basically what happens is that the soap breaks or reduces the water tension. the mosquito will try to land on the water and instead of landing goes right through the water surface and drowns so any dish soap should work Same thing with the fleas The mosquito is not trying to drink the water (they drink blood) they are trying to land on it to lay their eggs. All in all not a bad deal, killing a pregnant mosquito can probably go quite far in reducing the population tomatolord "Kathie" wrote in message ... Just had this hint passed along to me from another gardeners' forum...kill those pesky and dangerous mosquitos: fill a white plate or bowl with water and add several drops of Lemon Fresh Joy dishwashing detergent, and set outside. Not sure why or how it works, but mosquitoes are attracted to the mixture, drink and fall dead, usually within a few feet of the bowl...especially good for those of us in the South who would like to spend a few minutes outdoors without spraying ourselves with chemicals. Set plates or bowls of mixture around patio, and watch the results! -- Kathie Kat ~=^..^=~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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