Enough is enough. I've had it with these motherfricking mosquitoes in this motherfricking swamp.
I've turned over every container I can see. I mow my lawn regularly. What am I missing?
What do I need to do to reduce these pests?
How to wipe out mosquitoes in my area
start smoking cigarettes
Doesn’t work as well as you think.
I got some of that Cutter yard treatment that hooks up to the garden hose, spray like 1/3 of the bottle all around the house after it rains and it def cuts back on them. I just started using it because the last month has been extra hot and rainy, and spraying the shit once a week has been helping.
Pic related
Walmart has big citronella 3-wick candles for like $6, and you can get the citronella oil for the tiki torches when you’re not using them at political rallies.
Frick that. Pyrethroid aren't that great and that cutter has really low concentrations. Get imidocloprid or spinosad spray.
Thankyou. Researching Cutter right now. I'll try this out.
Mostly, I just like to know how it kills mosquitoes.
http://www.npic.orst.edu/factsheets/l_cyhalogen.pdf
I'm not sure about the effectual difference between it and cyhalothrin, but cyhalothrin fricks with honey bees and other good insects, too. If you care about rabbits and possibly whatever good insects are around, don't use Cutter.
Generally mosquito treatments are done by poisoning the areas where they reproduce. Standing water is a big one, but you mentioned a swamp so I’m guessing you know that one. Another one is the undersides of bushes and general foliage.. that’s why a good mosquito treatment involves spraying with a leaf blower and spray attachment. Presumably you could get it done with one of those hand held sprayers that pump up but it would be a lot of effort. You really need to give us more info on the area you’re attempting to keep mosquito free and how much time/effort you’re willing to invest
With the swamp, it is huge and I don't want to hurt my local wildlife. That would be counter-productive anyway since fish eat the larva.
As for my environment, there are bushes everywhere. Dense underbrush and I am right next to a huge swamp. Reeds, thorns, leaves, even bamboo. It's terrible. I can keep my own small yard relatively free of leaves and stuff but it seems impractical to go around the woods with DEET. I also want to avoid harming the local wildlife.
That said, I have had enough and I'm considering all options.
I wouldn’t spray that Cutter shit in the swamp water, but if you’re just trying to get rid of the skeeters around your garage and patio and such, try the stuff out. Do like 25-50ft out into the yard every direction from where you’re chilling at. If the skeeters are willing to travel, they’re probably going to choose the direction that’s not coated in poison.
That being said, I soaked the fence and under the porch and a bunch of areas that won’t wash away real fast, and the anoles and geckos are still running around so it’s obviously not going to kill everything immediately. I even hit a lizard or two with the hose as I was spraying it and they were fine.
Bug zappers are also an option if you want a multi-prong defense. The little “bzzt” whenever one gets zapped is nice.
>dense underbrush
Yea you’re gonna need to spray that. It’s really more about correct application than volume in my experience, so if you’re coating the correct areas you don’t need to put down so much as to nuke beneficial wildlife. There are natural organic substances that repel mosquitos, but in my experience you need ALOT of that shit and pretty constant application. I know people freak out about “chemicals” but as long as you’re diluting properly and applying in a non-moronic fashion you’ll be fine. You can even check the website for local wildlife and game wardens and see what they recommend, but for residential applications you can probably just use larvacides in a large enough area around your house
Yes. I forgot to mention that I purchased FRICKLOADS of mint, rue, lemon grass, basil, marigold, and catnip and it does nothing. I have cats everywhere now though.
I've read that bats rarely actually consume mosquitoes. That said, they are beneficial so I'll set some up in the woods.
>bats consume mosquitoes
live in Arizona
dusk comes
mosquito swarm
wave arms
slap handfuls
five minutes later hear flap flap flap screech
no more mosquitos
Based bat frens
What can an elephant actually do though? If you hug its hind legs it can't reach you with its truck, and its too sluggish to get away while you repeatedly pommel it from behind. If you stand to the side of its hind legs then it won't even be able to hit you with a back kick. If it raises its leg to perform a stomp then all you have to do is back off until it finishes its slam, then move back in to continue punching.
Go to /vg/ if you want to talk about Monster Hunter.
>Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies israelensis (Bti) bacteria produces toxins which are effective in killing various species of mosquitoes, fungus gnats, and blackflies, while having almost no effect on other organisms2. Bti is a naturally occurring soil bacterium that can effectively kill mosquito larvae present in water3.
you can find this stuff as a product called mosquito dunks or whatever but those are for smaller ponds. you probably want bulk granular form.
Would it be effective just thrown into the swamp?
I will try this. Thankyou, King.
also DEET is not going to kill any of them, it's only a deterrent. maybe if you got your hands on some DDT... but we all know about that stuff.
You are pretty much fricked.
Poison yourself and hang out where they're most prevalent
This works also
these suckers actually works to the point people are seeing a reduction in birdlife where they are commonly used.
same with a drop of washing detergent on mosquito spawning ponds.
You need to attack them at their source: life itself. Set up a lab or "educational" school/LLC and purchase ton upon ton of Cesium 137 samples.
(here's a link https://www.pasco.com/products/lab-apparatus/atomic-and-nuclear/sn-9795)
Next, you dump them in nearby waterways and ponds. It's critical that you need the all-natural Cs-137 solution get down into the water table.
>Cs-137
You might wind up with mutant super mosquitoes.
You fricking domestic terrorist moron!
OP, DO NOT do anything this moron has suggested! You will Fukushima your state's water table and mosquitoes will be the least of your problems!
Whichever anon posted this advice, I hope you enjoy being on all the watch lists!
Don't worry about that gray van parked across the street from your house...those guys are just checking the neighborhood for...excess concrete in all of the sidewalks!
Holy based
>Irreparably annihilate my local ecosystem just to get rid of mosquito problem
>Stalker anomalies appearing in palm trees in my neighborhood like a tropical Shadow of Chernobyl DLC
>The gators now have gigantic pink external nutsacks the size of a basketball they drag behind them
Shiggy diggy
>tropical Shadow of Chernobyl DLC
>Sidorovich in rhody shorts and a boonie hat
This must happen.
>get bit by radioactive mosquito
>weird shit happens for a few weeks
>sam l. jackson shows up in your living room
Stock every bit of standing water you can find with mosquitofish. They can eat like 30x their bodyweight in larva a day.
There are a few vacant houses around here with pools so I took it upon myself to turn them into my own personal aquariums
>Stock every bit of standing water you can find with mosquitofish.
This. Also put up bat houses. Attract bats.
>Stock every bit of standing water you can find with mosquitofish.
One bit of advice... Check with your local fish and wildlife official, to make sure you aren't going to frick up a swamp by introducing a potentially aggressive species to the area.
(Think about the iguanas in Florida)
There’s so many goddamn aquarium fish populations in Florida waterways these days that it probsbly wouldn’t evem matter.
Perhaps... And maybe these will do nothing, but I would definitely ask, before doing it.
Stocking a swimming pool is harmless enough, but this could have unintended consequences.
You don't want to be the guy that shat in the punch bowl, on a global scale!
Too late, lion fish are destroying the reefs off FL.
Yup... I did notice that the punch had a bit of a twang, and an off aftertaste.
I hear that people in Florida are also really enjoying all the fricking iguanas too!
The worst is in like Jan-Feb, on the cooler days when it’s like 50s at night and 60s in the morning, they come and decide to sun themselves in the middle of a 6 lane road and get rekt
Bonus: intentionally make “attractive” pits of standing water solely to attract mosquitoes to lay their larva in trapped water rather than in some pit you haven’t trapped.
I was thinking about doing this with 5 gallon buckets. Just have a huge row of them that I can strain through a screen every few weeks
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C_7k5Yyufuo
>Dunks release bacteria
So you could just get one and keep culturing the bacteria
Frogs are great too, don’t know if you can stock them but they had a resurgence on my parent’s property and they hardly see any mosquitos now. That’s why spraying the swamp with chemicals would probably be counterproductive, you’d likely affect pest eater populations more than pests.
Tried bulk used coffee grounds? You'll need a ton of it for your application I'd bet. Probably a broadcast spreader for them too.
>What do I need to do to reduce these pests?
do everything you did but around you for the 10 miles.
OP, check with your county... They may have a mosquito task force, that would deploy a fogger truck to the area, if you have mosquitoes in huge quantities.
They have a vested interest in controlling them, as they already had two or more cases of malaria this year.
The worst they can do is say 'no', but they might say 'yes', which would get you some weapons grade fogging of your area!
Good luck... And don't forget to punch god in the face for this, when you see him again!
>They have a vested interest in controlling them, as they already had two or more cases of malaria this year.
Bill Gates and his lab modified mosquitos.
This is a good idea. I'll admit, contacting my local government didn't even occur to me. That's how jaded I am atp.
There is a privately contracted fogger truck that zips around but they're spraying water vapor as far as I can tell. The local community pays him for the placebo and I suspect it's a grift.
No one drinks water from the swamp though.
you need to populate birds that eat the damn things like swallows or something, or bats, bats eat bugs too
If you want to try the trapping method use dry ice in a trap, they home in by CO2 then body heat as the final stage. This might help with the local population.
Traps ca be simple 2 liter bottle w a small hole or a bought trap
Riptide ULV spray and a chink backpack ULV sprayer from amazon. Same treatment as the companies do. Lasts a few weeks.
just throw a pack of mosquito dunks in the swamp
AI controlled 4w blue laser, also useful for other pests
Please tell me you haven't slaved an AI, of your own design, to a kill laser!
You want Skynet??! Because this is how you get Skynet!!!
The question is which ai
These coil ones are the only things that work.
CO2 mosquito traps work very well for making a given area almost mosquito free (speaking from experience in finland, where mosquitoes are plentiful in Summer)
Assuming you live in the U.S. contact your local Vector Control. It's government operated and afaik they do it for free.
Or call a private company that does mosquito treatments
>Vector Control
http://npic.orst.edu/vecmlr.html
Get a mosquito magnet. They cover like 3000-4000m3.
this anon is feared by the skeeter. listen to this anon.
Swampanon, listen to this man, if you dont want to be a Black person and poison your local wildlife this will have to be it
Mosquito Magnet® mosquito traps are scientifically-backed to protect your home and business from mosquitoes, midges, and more
>Midges
Is there a setting that excludes midges? I don't want to help those freaks.
Those are patented Microsoft Vaxquitos©. You are not allowed to kill them.
You need to know what species you're dealing with first as they have very different fight ranges. If the range of the one you're dealing with is more than 100m then obviously you're going to have to deter, deflect, detain them rather than simply killing their spawning grounds.
Puts tons of bird houses around your backyard. When i visited my grandfather up north there was an awful swarm, seeing the birds divebomb and eat thousands of skeeters over the course of a few hours was something to behold. Same thing with dragonflies
1. get dragonflies, one of the only natural predators to these things
2. fill up anything with water and put soap in it, they drown in soapy water
The soap eventually degrades, a population of mosquitofish is forever
You could make a ghetto mosquito magnet with a grill and a commercial fan. Put a mesh over the fan and let a bbq simmer overnight and mosquitos will fly over and get trapped in the fan.
Forgot to add you have to do this for a couple weeks until all the mosquitos in your area die off.
I live in an area with some of the worst mosquitoes in the world and here are some things we do here
>bats
build the house under an overhang in a warm place, some people swear by it and I plan to build one myself
>mosquito magnet
they kill tons of mosquitoes but they also attract them, best case is to have a neighbor with one or keep a couple a distance away from your place. They don’t use much propane
>green coils
God’s gift to mankind. They don’t work in the wind but the mosquitoes aren’t an issue then anyways. Light a few if you have to, they are super cheap
>thermacell
They work but not any better than coils (same chemicals) and are an expensive hassle
>bugspray
High deet content works but I prefer to coat myself with picaridin or the stuff in the tan cans every hour. Less cancer that way
>light clothing
Mosquitoes are attracted to dark colors
>engine exhaust
Try to keep from idling your vehicles or if you have a genny keep it a distance away. Mosquitoes are attracted to the fumes
>standing water
You seem to have that covered
>bushes
This is very important but sometimes impossible to avoid. The bugs hide under plants when it rains since they can’t cope with water
I’m not an expert but you can’t kill em all. Whatever combination of methods you use can reduce the annoyance. I have to say though, the more you get bit the less you react to it. I’ve been to the point of not even noticing mosquito bites anymore, but it took a lot of bites to get there and there aren’t any diseases you can catch here from that sort of thing.
Thankyou. I've been making some purchases on ebay. My Aquabac just arrived today.
careful, mosquitoes do some serious pollination and aren’t total leeches
only the fertile females want your blood
I wish you luck
>you can't kill em all
I CAN TRY
AND ONCE I ACCOMPLISH IT, I'M COMING FOR THE ROACHES
What you want to do is get the biggest shop fan/ box fan you can get. Then, you put some fine wire mesh on the intake side. Spray the wire mesh with isopropyl alcohol.
Optionally, make a fire closeby to attract the frickers. Also, vinegar traps work great.
>fan
>alcohol
>near a fire
This sounds like instructions on burning down the woods
Well, yeah. But set everything on fire and no more mosquitoes
>mfw bill gates is releasing them 20 mil at a time
>mfw there's only one fly swatter
use a massive laser. it that or start poisoning the breeding grounds.
those buckets that can mist pesticide probably could mist chlorine or DDT/DEET just as well.
i mean if you can find a species of frog that loves misquitos and is nativ....fricking breed a couple hundred and spam them into the swampy land untill no mosquitos live.
iv also wondered if a modified microwave gun could cook them if you tweeked the frequency and boosted the power....
stogies
just killed another one
Capture a few hundreds, mass reproduce them, irradiate the males to make them sterile, then release them in the wild for them to compete with fertile males.
Get a few of the classic zappers and some nets around your porch.
I also have an older version of a net like this that takes two D batteries and blows mosquitoes apart.
Forgot pic
You’re probably one of those boomers or e women that remove every spider web you see
Their bodies are smaller so it stands to reason they can stomach less poison than you. So slightly poisoning your blood seems like a foolproof idea.
Burn every bush, every tree, every last blade of grass. Then pour gas on the swamp and set it on fire. Blame global warming.
Buy one of those outside vacuum machines that you fill up with some kind of pheromone lure which attracts the mosquitoes. It'll suck up pounds of them in a day. Leave on and clean out as long as needed.