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Mosquito infestation

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Created by FlySurfer > 9 months ago, 31 Dec 2012
FlySurfer
NSW, 4460 posts
31 Dec 2012 11:07AM
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I have a mosquito infestation problem.

I've checked around the house and there are no stagnant pools, puddles or water, but in the evening there's a cloud of mosquitoes.

I left the bathroom window open last night, and this morning there were at least 70-80 mosquitoes around it.

The garage has Tiger mosquitoes (nasty farkers who will bite any time of day), which are kept fairly in check with the resident spiders (all huge and fat daddy long legs).

The other mosquitoes just hang around and don't bite much, but make me paranoid... specially after what I saw this morning.

I've sprayed the bathroom and they're all on the floor now.
How do I get rid of them outside?

Thanks.

stamp
QLD, 2800 posts
31 Dec 2012 2:00PM
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clear out your gutters- if they block up with leaves the mozzies will breed in the trapped water. otherwise keep a fan on and burn some citronella. don't clear away the spiders in the house. i leave all the old webs alone (much to the chagrin of my wife) and they help keep the mozzies at bay.

on a side note: only the females bite, they need blood for egg laying (i think). the males are vegetarian.

another side note: you worry about chemtrails and fluoride, yet are happy to soak your bathroom in insecticide?

pweedas
WA, 4642 posts
31 Dec 2012 1:48PM
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Phone up the Illuminati and get them to do another chemtrails run.
They have obviously fallen down on the job over the christmas break.
(It's so hard to get good hired help these days.)

FlySurfer
NSW, 4460 posts
1 Jan 2013 12:37AM
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stamp said...
another side note: you worry about chemtrails and fluoride, yet are happy to soak your bathroom in insecticide?

Gutters are clear, there's a muddy patch where the gutters join the drains and that's about all I can find.

I don't lose sleep about chemtrails, and would prefer my water fluoride free... but I am more concerned about the insecticide use.
I usually dispatch an unwanted bug with my Reef's, but confronted with the 70+ mossies I was stuck for options. There's still couple flying around the living room as I write this.

I had a pet preying Mantis (~8cm long) in the bathroom and he didn't take too well to the insecticide... I washed him down and put him outside, he then disappeared I hope he made it.

pweedas said...
Phone up the Illuminati and get them to do another chemtrails run.


What's their number?

wave knave
306 posts
31 Dec 2012 9:42PM
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FlySurfer said...


pweedas said...
Phone up the Illuminati and get them to do another chemtrails run.


What's their number?


666 [}:)]

pweedas
WA, 4642 posts
31 Dec 2012 10:13PM
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Mozzies breed in the outside water traps for the house drains.
These can be floordrains for the laundry, bathroom, and toilet floors and sometimes for the kitchen sink, washbasins etc. In other words, wherever there is a water outlet from the house there can be a water trap into the sewer system.
Often these can be unscreened and the mozzies love them. They can also breed in air con. drain points, buckets left out for dogs or birds etc.
They only need a few spoonfuls of water to set up shop.
If your place is clear, maybe from next door.

GypsyDrifter
WA, 2371 posts
1 Jan 2013 3:32PM
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Don't move to Mandurah then...
the marshes that surround Mandurah are year long and the Mozzies never cease
day and night.....
we have a lovely large block and I am confined to the house 99% of the time for 5 months of the year...stuffing no fun at all

thePup
13831 posts
1 Jan 2013 3:52PM
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BARMAC - "out of bounds" ..... available from City Farmers

100% guaranteed to get rid of the blood-thirsty little Varmints

You mix it with water and spray around your house walls , doesn't affect animals

Works every time and lasts for months you can spray it in your gardens where the little bastards hide

GypsyDrifter
WA, 2371 posts
1 Jan 2013 4:06PM
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^^^^^ all well and good PUP....but it kills all insects and spiders

thePup
13831 posts
1 Jan 2013 4:13PM
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GypsyDrifter said...
^^^^^ all well and good PUP....but it kills all insects and spiders



ok - just do your house walls & leave the garden as it is Gyps , I had that concern as well so just sprayed the exterior walls only

still have a multitude of good guys crawling in the garden as usual

Edit: just have a big worry about the Ross River thing , that's nasty

GypsyDrifter
WA, 2371 posts
1 Jan 2013 5:07PM
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^^^^ yep I hear you pup....I have a bottle in the laundry
I just went and bought this 2 minutes ago...
Have to wait till it gets here...

I'll give this a go 1st...or I just might move

thePup
13831 posts
1 Jan 2013 5:22PM
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I think I saw one of those on Ebay Gyps ..... good luck with that flying machine & hope it also doesn't snuff out the other buggies - bit of a catch 22 isn't it whatever way you go

FlySurfer
NSW, 4460 posts
1 Jan 2013 9:49PM
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pweedas said...
Mozzies breed in the outside water traps for the house drains.
These can be floordrains for the laundry, bathroom, and toilet floors and sometimes for the kitchen sink, washbasins etc. In other words, wherever there is a water outlet from the house there can be a water trap into the sewer system.
Often these can be unscreened and the mozzies love them. They can also breed in air con. drain points, buckets left out for dogs or birds etc.
They only need a few spoonfuls of water to set up shop.
If your place is clear, maybe from next door.


We kind of came to the same conclusion this morning after leaving all windows closed and there being 30+ mossies in the morning... the only place they can be coming from are the 2 bathroom drains.

Took this a couple days ago.

sn
WA, 2775 posts
1 Jan 2013 7:34PM
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My parents used to live in Pleasant Grove (suburb of Mandurah) and had similar problems with mozzies.

I picked up a bug zapper of the type you see bolted to the wall in cafe's and takeaways, removed the tray underneath that catches the fried bugs, hung it on an outside wall under the eaves of the shed and left it turned on.
It didnt clear the problem totally- but it attracted the mozzies and flies away from the house, and the pile of fried bugs and mozzies was pretty impressive under it- as were the colony of fat frogs it was feeding.

A pair of black light tubes and starters lasted around 18 months to 2 years before needing replacing.
no idea what it cost to run- but no chemicals involved.

GypsyDrifter
WA, 2371 posts
1 Jan 2013 8:28PM
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I have one of these:- Basically only does the moths that eat my Cape Lilac tree
It keeps the small birds fed.

and one of these:- this one is rubbish even with the Pheromone Attractant.

thePup
13831 posts
1 Jan 2013 8:51PM
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Geez Gyps you are building quite a collection of zappers there honey

smicko
WA, 2503 posts
1 Jan 2013 11:31PM
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She'll be starting her own ebay store soon

Beaglebuddy
1595 posts
2 Jan 2013 8:41AM
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I don't see how they could breed in a p trap on a fixture that is being actively used, the water would flush them.
If you are on a septic I have heard about them breeding in the tank and transiting thru the plumbing vents on the roof. A simple screen will remedy this.

Beaglebuddy
1595 posts
2 Jan 2013 8:42AM
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GypsyDrifter said...
^^^^ yep I hear you pup....I have a bottle in the laundry
I just went and bought this 2 minutes ago...
Have to wait till it gets here...

I'll give this a go 1st...or I just might move


These are very effective but with the price of propane thru the roof, very expensive to run.

Skid
QLD, 1499 posts
2 Jan 2013 1:21PM
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thePup said...
Geez Gyps you are building quite a collection of zappers there honey


I used to know a woman with quite a collection of buzzers....

GypsyDrifter
WA, 2371 posts
2 Jan 2013 11:26AM
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^^^^^^^

GypsyDrifter
WA, 2371 posts
2 Jan 2013 11:38AM
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Beaglebuddy said...

These are very effective but with the price of propane thru the roof, very expensive to run.


Not to sure about what you are saying.....as the bottle of propane for these
lasts approx 21 days and the refills are about $21...so $1 a day..
it is either $1 a day approx or

Don't go outside for 5 months of the year...
we have a 1400 m2 block and I would like to grow fruit and veg which so far I have
not yet been able to do...

Also we want to put in a 200 ms shed in with all the bells and whistles
which I wont do untill I know I can do something about the mozzies

Or wait for end of Autumn, winter or spring and sell and move...
we are 2 houses away from the river and boat ramp...
I would like to fix this situation (I hope)
rather than sell as we own our home and land now and to move it costs money

So for me....an approx $1000 out lay (unit + propane, electricity and pheromones )
is worth ago 1st

felixdcat
WA, 3519 posts
2 Jan 2013 2:06PM
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Back in Europe we had a massive mozzie prob, was a swamp that is a protected reserve. The local gov build a gate on the out river making the water go to high level at 5 pm when the little bastard start to breed and then letting the water go out at 6 am. They lay the eggs at night just a few millimetre under the water surface attached to aquatic plants so they can stay nice and protected from the sun so when you lower the water level all the eggs are out of water and dye. We have no mozzies around anymore and use no chemicals.
Could be done in the Mandurah area but at cost.



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