Hi

Grateful for advice or to hear from anyone who has experience of similar
situation.

I have a pond in my garden. My neighbour is concerned that at dusk the pond
attracts mosquitoes, which then go off to their house and bite them. I think
they have suffered allergic reations to the bites.

They have suggested spraying DDT to kill the mosquitoes.

Here's the state of the pond:
* No pump
* Full of oxygenating plants & netted in winter to keep leaves out, so water
not a stagnant soup
* Full of tadpoles, pond skaters, damselflies, a few ramshorn snails, other
critters
* No sighting of mosquito larvae

Our gardens back onto a little nature reserve which has a pond about 15 sq
feet. Again, this is full of tadpoles, clean looking, no mosquito larvae
attached to the surface.

It seems to me that there is no action to be taken over mosquitoes breeding
in the pond because I can't see the larvae in the water. Is that correct?

Is there anything I can do to stop them congregating at dusk. Place a
mosquito net over the pond?

When the mosquiroes fly close to the surfaceof the pond, are they drinking
water from the pond?

Are there any targetted sprays, organic products etc that will deal with
this. There'll be no point havin a pond if DDT goes in there.

Any research or studies that have gone into this kind of thing that show
applying DDT is a silly thing to do?

Thanks v much

Jez Phillips