Dang skeeters.
 

Since our floods last month the skeeters have overtook my property, which means war.

Since shooting them is very time consuming and hard on the shoulder what are the best ideas to send the bastards to hell?

$$$ is no object this is war.

In our tiny suburb part of town, they drive by with fogger trucks a couple times each summer. Maybe your area has that, and your city'll have the trucks drive by your area? Call 'em up and see? Best of luck.

skeet?

"SKEET, SKEET, SKEEET.. SKEET" -- Chappelle on Lil' Jon's rap

You gotta first make sure they don't reproduce. Get the stuff at the farm supply to put in standing water.

Thanks but there's no chance of that I'm in BFE.

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Thats an aerial of my property I don't think thatys going to happen, I think 2 or 3 Mosquito Deletos will be the only choice.

Start eating alot of garlic. Nice side effect is friends and neighbors will quit bugging you too.
I like the sastifying sound the electric zappers make. I saw a portable propane powered model in one of those airline shopper mags.


or you could just leave your diesel idling in the back yard all the time

Showoff.

Still they don't breed in moving water anyway.

Is the lake stocked?

No need for stocking it jam packed full of fish, a fish market in my front yard I will post some pics after this weekends fish fry. Every catches fish and has fun while I filet.

First, make sure that you don't have any standing water on your property. Look for things you didn't think mattered. Empty every one that you find.

As for the exiting vermon, you can try one of those propane powered mosquito catchers.

The oil trick would work but, please don't do that.

Tabacco will work in standing water just as well. I cig here and there will do the trick. Get the filterless ones or just a bag of loose leaf.

If the lake is full of fish that's not where the skeeter are coming from then.

What you really need is birds and some bats. throw up boxes around that lake and your problem will be no more, ever, and some beneficials will have their tummys full. it's all good. :)


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I read somewhere about a ritual where you burn a big enough blood sucker to death and it scares off all the little ones...........but i'm sure it's fiction

It's illegal in Michigan to burn lawyers.

Re: Dang skeeters.
 

Here in the mosquito capital of the world, we perfer Pyrethrin. Kicks the **** out of them bastards.

I was thinking vampires, but if all you have is the poor cousin.....

That was the best method for skeeter control before DDT. And it doesn't take much oil, either. Actually, heavy oils suck. You need something of low volatility (don't want it to evaporate fast) and low viscosity that will coat a skeeter. Diesel works wonders.

The downside is that it stinks and kills most of the bottom of the foodchain. Meaning that dependently linked larger creatures get hungry and starve.

The reason that DDT took over from diesel was that it is less toxic to vertebrates, decapods, amphipods, molluscs, algae, plants, etc than diesel. And of course, it doesn't stink as bad. To be even more effective, DDT used to be mixed with diesel.

The down side of DDT is that its decomposition products accumulate in fatty tissue. Like that spare tire you're carrying around. When you decide to take-off that spare tire to impress the babes, guess what goe back into the bloodstream? Ol' cholinesterase inhibitor.

It also inhibits calcium deposition which is hard on bones and teeth of kids and animals and it makes for extremely brittle eggshells.

But at least you kill skeeters.

Now that sounds sarcastic (which of course, it is) but if you live in the tropics, killing skeeters or tsetse flies is a matter of public health that (in my opinion) outweighs the environmental risk of using DDT. Mosquitoes are vectors for a large number of debilitating and often deadly pathogens. Tsetse flies carry a pathogen that blinds people. If I lived in say, tropical Africa, I'd be Johnny on the spot with DDT, f**k a buncha tree huggers.

Its a tough world.

Bot

We have to do something we were grocery shopping tonight (fishing). We finally called it a night when I had five demons on my hand , the friend that I was fishing with is equally as tough in the outdoors and completely agreed. I haven't bought Repel 2000 in a few years but it looks like I need it this year if I want to fish or do anything outside in the evening.


My wife and daughter are very fair skinned and get kicked in A$$ by skeeters so I think I'm going to invest a few K in Skeeter Magnets, I know they work but I hate parting with the $$$.

I guess the new tractor will have to wait.

You could always stay indoors.;)

That would defeat the purpose of having all that property. Nice pic.

I have been fortunate to have some kind of chemical reaction that mosquitoes are not attracted to and haven't been bitten in years. I thought it was my breath, but I brushed my teeth and immediately went outside and still no bites.....so I guess they just don't like me.

My wife is mosquitoe bait, so when I want to avoid her, I go in the pool/yard alone. Tha usually gives me some peace.



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What are skeeter magnets?

Jim

When you get two magnets of equal size, and run around your yard trying to mash skeeters between 'em.:)

I fall in the same category as MedMech's family. I get eaten alive by skeeters. I was hoping a skeeter magnet was something other than someone with my body chemistry. If we eat outside this time of year, I will get a dozen bites before anyone else in the family even sees a skeeter.

There is a kid who goes to school with my son who patented a low frequency transducer to kill the bugs when they first hatch and have not developed the ability to fly. It shakes them up enough that they cannot form correctly and they die. Works great but it is only practical in larger bodies of water, since you need a separate transducer in each puddle. The Army Corps of Engineers is testing it along roadways where there are drainage ditches that breed them. A side effect is the sound mechanism is equally effective on some other bug types so there is some concern with disrupting the food chain with this thing as well.

Skeeters and ticks. What a neighborhood. Jim

Thanks. Has anyone used them? Do they work? Jim

Get'm young.
 

The following insecticides are recommended for the control of larvae of nuisance and vector species in various larval habitats. The insecticides are listed alphabetically, not in order of expected efficacy.

A.__ Catch basins
(1)__ AltosidÒ pellets and briquettes (standard) according to product label.

(2)__ AbateÒ emulsion (diluted from EC) by hydraulic sprayer, up to 118 mL emulsion/basin (4 oz/basin).

(3)__ AbateÒ extruded pellets 5%, in selected locations requiring extended release, according to product label.

(4)__ Bacillus sphaericus (see C5).

(5)__ B.t.i. (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis serotype H-14) briquettes or other formulations (see B5).

(6)___ Golden Bear Oil 1111 per label instructions.

(7)___ AgniqueÒMMF (monomolecular film) as a larvicide/pupicide, according to product label


B.____ Fresh flood water areas, woodland pools

(1)__ AbateÒ emulsion 18 g AI/ha (0.016 lb AI/acre).

(2)___ AbateÒ granules 1 or 2% ground application, 2 or 5% for aircraft, 56 to 112 g

AI/ha (0.05 to 0.1 lb AI/acre).

(3)___ AbateÒ extruded pellets 5%, in selected locations requiring extended release, according to product label.

(4)___ AltosidÒ A.L.L., 0.2 to 0.3 L/ha (3 to 4 fl oz/acre); A.L.L. Conc., 55 to 73 mL/ha

(3/4 to 1 fl oz/acre); pellets (4%), briquettes (standard) according to label.

(5)__ B.t.i. according to manufacturer’s directions. B.t.i. must be ingested to be toxic to mosquito larvae. Larval toxicity depends on the species, its feeding activity and various environmental factors. B.t.i. formulations (e.g., flowables, briquettes, granulars, and pellets) may vary in their potency and the means used to express such potency. Attention should be given to this aspect in the purchase and use of B.t.i. products. Where such formulations are meant to be suspended in water for application, agitation must be provided to insure uniform application.

C.____ Polluted and/or impounded waters

(1)__ AbateÒ emulsion up to 54 g AI/ha (0.048 lb AI/acre). See also E3.

(2)___ AbateÒ granules 1 or 2% for ground application, 2 or 5% for aircraft, 56 to 224 g _ AI/ha (0.05 to 0.2 lb AI/acre).

(3)___ AbateÒ extruded pellets 5%, in select locations requiring extended release, according to product label.

(4)___ AltosidÒ (A.L.L. and A.L.L. Conc.); pellets, briquettes (standard), see B4.

(5)___ Bacillus sphaericus recommended for the control of Culex larvae: use according to manufacturer’s directions.

(6)__ Golden Bear Oil 1111 per label instructions.

(7)_ AgniqueÒMMF (monomolecular film) as a larvicide/pupicide, according to product label.



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Ticks, wow........now that is one of natures worst insects. Those things suck. Yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

;)

If you google them and read the tests they do work well.