Mosquitoes

[colinpurrington]

Thank yall for your responses! ☺
I'm in Texas, I live across the road from a lake, and there are some "low lands/kinda swampy areas" within 1-2 miles around my house; + our humidity the past few years has been about double what it was when I was growing up .
TPTB decided in their wisdom to release millions of gmo mosquitoes in Texas, (and Florida.) Since then, it has become almost unbearable - I use bug spray on me, so I can tolerate them, but, of course, unacceptable for my critters.
I try my best to insure there is no standing water, etc.
I've continued to research, and I'll share something I found in case anyone else might need the info and want to try it:
Apparently mosquitoes eat fruit nectar! I had no idea! And boric acid KILLS them!
So, I mixed boric acid powder into fruit nectar juice, poured about an inch into several empty pop bottles, and set them in shaded areas about 5'-6' off the ground.
That was yesterday; it does seem to be a bit better today, unsure if it had anything to do with this concoction, but, I'm hoping it is.
Thank yall again; God bless yall🕇🕊

Could you post photographs of this setup? Also would be curious to see pics of what you catch inside.

 

[cmom]

I have a mosquito magnet also. It does attract and catch a lot of mosquitos, I bought a second basket so when the basket is pretty full I just change the baskets out and put them in the freezer and after the mosquitos have frozen I put them in a zip lock.

 

[NatJ]

after the mosquitos have frozen I put them in a zip lock.

What do you do with the bag of dead mosquitos after that?

 

[cmom]

throw them in the trash.

 

[NatJ]

throw them in the trash.

Ah, that makes sense.
But since you mentioned the ziploc bag, I was wondering if you saved them for a winter protein supplement for the chickens, or had some other use for them

 

[ibarbidahl]

THe salt inside the eradicators isn't really there as anything other than an attractant. It's the combination of yeast and salt - no different than our sweat and CO2 breath that brings them a run...flying in. LOL