Mosquitos!!! Aghhhh! What do YOU do about them?

[cubby]

You insult Robert Brown, he made a very good, practical suggestion. And to boast that you have skeeters big enough to give a bat a good fight is just plain silly. You are supposed to contribute HONEST Posts and Threads, not gross exaggerations.

JD do you mean like the HONEST thread for a change you posted just to get to 2K, seems like those
flies are getting heavy:laughing::laughing::laughing: just kidding congrats on the big 2K hit....cubby

 

[Xave]

I just bought one of them Flowtron 1.5 acre bug zappers for my back yard. I've heard some good reviews and am anxious to see results. I also contacted a private company to give me an estimate to spray my residence. They have not provided a quote a of yet. Cute also says a spray you can attach to your hose to spray th lawn. Not sure how effective it is. Good luck

 

[djrussell]

Let us know how that works for you, Xave. I have a mosquito and gnat problem and am looking at solutions. The Flowtrons get a LOT of good reviews on amazon.

 

[JDgreen]

Let us know how that works for you, Xave. I have a mosquito and gnat problem and am looking at solutions. The Flowtrons get a LOT of good reviews on amazon.

I have read someplace that not many of the bugs those zappers get are skeeters...but IMO the only good bugs are honeybees, so ZAP AWAY.

 

[Oddball]

I've read reviews on the bug zappers that say the lights do not attract moqsuitos and they therefore zap very few of them, and that the attractants that are supposed to be used in conjucntion with the zappers actually repel some species of mosquitos, including the one that seems so prevalent here. I've also read reviews that say they've zapped beaucoups skeeters, so who knows. I know my wife finally relented and said "Go spray whatever you want, just kill the damn things!" So I got the garden sprayer out night before last and mixed up a batch of pesticide and sprayed all the flower beds, the woods around the perimeter of the yard, under the deck and with what remained, I sprayed the yard itself until I ran out. I hate to do it in a way because when I do we don't see as many dragon flies and toads, but somethings gotta give. This morning my wife was outside on the deck watering plants and exercising and when she came in she said it was the first time in over a month she'd been able to enjoy being out on the deck first thing in the AM.

 

[Xave]

Well I received and set up the Flowtron in my back yard. Although the recommendation was to place the unit 20-25 ft. away from people activity I installed it 5 feet from my backdoor to listen to it zap. I wanted to make sure it was working. I'll let you know how it goes. Video to follow...lol

 

[BKBrown]

SkeeterVac 1 Acre Mosquito Eliminator, Model# CPSV3100

Haven't used it myself (no real need), but I have heard good things about it and others that use Propane and a fan. Do a search if you are interested.

 

[johnandrew]

Two things you can do, but some of these, 10 pcs Insect Repellent Bracelet Mosquito Repeller Band | eBay (they do work, but once you unpack them they are not good after a couple of hours, but I guess that's alight) also you can rent a motorized lawn mover that will help speed things up for you, there is a tool rental at the Home Depot that rents mechanical mowers.

 

[motorrefurb]

Get out a firepit and the bugs never go near it. Some companies (or all) put some type of lemon stuff in their tiki torch fluid, so if you get some of that, you can make a wall or torches and the mosquitos hate lemon!

 

[mnicholson]

I actually just let them be because any move I do to get them out, they seem to have an answer back. Though I have read some articles that there are some sort of trees which leaves are able to drive away insects because of their scent.

You might want to search on those and give it a try. I was not able to plant some of them because I already have a full one when I came across this problem.