Are " Mosquito Dunks " Safe For My Ducks' Pool/drinking Water??

[Dawn419]

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Check out Drs. Foster & Smith for Mosquito Controls

We've been dealing with them for years, for a lot of different things: dogs, cats, ponds and fish.

We've used their dunks and granules for skeeters but haven't tried the granules or liquid that they also sell.

 

[featherz]

Our town gives them out to residents for free - so we got a box of 100 this year (26 acres with a lot of swamp). Have never seen any issues with the animals!

 

[Cetawin]

If you can get your hands on some semi fresh cut barley straw, cut it up and fill a piece of cheesecloth about 6" square, tie it up and hang it to float in the water....completely safe for the ducks, horses or etc and the larvae cannot survive in that water. Replace every couple of weeks or after a really hard rains.

I use it in my horse trough, open waterers and duckie pool.

 

[RedDrgn]

They're safe. During my time working for the PADEP West Nile Virus program we used a lot of different forms of BT (like the dunks) in a lot of different ways; from animal watering troughs to waste water treatment plants. The BT binds in the gut of the mosquito (and other insect larvae as well) and prevents them from being able to absorb nutrients from the food they eat. It essentially starves them to death.

 

[Gally73]

We clean out our duck pool every night, but we think the mosquitos are still laying/hatching in the leaves/dirt where we dump the water. Would this stuff (the dunks) continue to kill the larvae on the ground when we dump the water?