I know a few years ago the wife sprayed some junk on me to keep ticks and skeeters off, I wound up in the ER. Serious reaction to the deet, it took 3 days to get off oxygen. I was given several doses of epinephrine and that stuff is real bad for a fella with the heart problems I deal with. I just stay inside and away from skeeters as best I can.
P.S. We had no idea I was allergic to the deet, it was the first time I ever had any on me, I was 44.
P.S. We had no idea I was allergic to the deet, it was the first time I ever had any on me, I was 44.
Put minnows in standing water if you can't drain.
When the skeeters are gone, the minners die and birds eat them.
Perfect recycling.
When the skeeters are gone, the minners die and birds eat them.
Perfect recycling.
I put goldfish in my horse water tank and never feed em. They eat water bugs and algae.
We did the same with some 3" channel cat we netted in the creek when I was a kid.
They got 13" long a couple of years later.
We debated eating them, but living in cow slobbers didn't sound too appetizing. Lol.
HOMEMADE MOSQUITO TRAP:
Items needed:
1 cup of water
1/4 cup of brown sugar
1 gram of yeast
1 2-liter bottle
HOW:
1. Cut the plastic bottle in half.
2. Mix brown sugar with hot water. Let cool. When cold, pour in the bottom half of the bottle.
3. Add the yeast. No need to mix. It creates carbon dioxide, which attracts mosquitoes.
4. Place the funnel part, upside down, into the other half of the bottle, taping them together if desired.
5. Wrap the bottle with something black, leaving the top uncovered, and place it outside in an area away from your normal gathering area. (Mosquitoes are also drawn to the color black.)
Change the solution every 2 weeks for continuous control
Items needed:
1 cup of water
1/4 cup of brown sugar
1 gram of yeast
1 2-liter bottle
HOW:
1. Cut the plastic bottle in half.
2. Mix brown sugar with hot water. Let cool. When cold, pour in the bottom half of the bottle.
3. Add the yeast. No need to mix. It creates carbon dioxide, which attracts mosquitoes.
4. Place the funnel part, upside down, into the other half of the bottle, taping them together if desired.
5. Wrap the bottle with something black, leaving the top uncovered, and place it outside in an area away from your normal gathering area. (Mosquitoes are also drawn to the color black.)
Change the solution every 2 weeks for continuous control
Very cool, I'll try this.
Then there is this.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-07-15/news/1991196049_1_mosquito-burmese-schreiber
BELLE GLADE, FLA - BELLE GLADE, Fla. (AP) -- The cannibal offspring of giant Burmese mosquitoes soon will be looking for prey in empty lots and back alleys of this skeeter-plagued town on the shores of Lake Okeechobee.
L But people in the area have nothing to fear, scientists say.
The killer baby bugs have a taste for their own kind, not for human blood.
"It would be kind of horrible to release a mosquito 15 times bigger than normal and have it out biting people," said Eric Schreiber, the Panama City entomologist heading the experiment. "I imagine they'd run me out of town."
Toxorhynchites splendens, the adult Burmese mosquito that Mr. Schreiber plans to release, feeds on nectar.
But its larvae, after they hatch, will eat any other species of mosquito larvae unlucky enough to be in the same area.
A single Burmese larva can devour up to 250 of its smaller cousins.
Mr. Schreiber, who works for the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, had experimented unsuccessfully with the Burmese mosquito in Tallahassee and Sarasota.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-07-15/news/1991196049_1_mosquito-burmese-schreiber
BELLE GLADE, FLA - BELLE GLADE, Fla. (AP) -- The cannibal offspring of giant Burmese mosquitoes soon will be looking for prey in empty lots and back alleys of this skeeter-plagued town on the shores of Lake Okeechobee.
L But people in the area have nothing to fear, scientists say.
The killer baby bugs have a taste for their own kind, not for human blood.
"It would be kind of horrible to release a mosquito 15 times bigger than normal and have it out biting people," said Eric Schreiber, the Panama City entomologist heading the experiment. "I imagine they'd run me out of town."
Toxorhynchites splendens, the adult Burmese mosquito that Mr. Schreiber plans to release, feeds on nectar.
But its larvae, after they hatch, will eat any other species of mosquito larvae unlucky enough to be in the same area.
A single Burmese larva can devour up to 250 of its smaller cousins.
Mr. Schreiber, who works for the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, had experimented unsuccessfully with the Burmese mosquito in Tallahassee and Sarasota.
One thing you can do to lower your attractiveness to mosquitoes.... is not to drink beer
That is outright blasphemy!
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