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Hi KTCL,
That may be the gnats life span but if there is still a lot of running water they could have a second or third hatch. Once the water flow slows and the level drops the gnats will be gone until next year. Gnat eggs need a constant flow of water to keep them moist so Steve if you have large areas of standing water ask your local vector control for some mosquito fish (Gambusia affinis) to eat the free swimming larva. Dragon fly larva are also good at eating other larva and Gambusia fry when they are small.
I hope your hatches are 100%!
Joe
There was no standing water around here close, but flash floods left some today. One road leaving here had a foot of water over it. LOL It will be gone before mosquitoes hatch from it, barring more flash flooding in the next day or two. However, I'm just 1/4 mile off the Mississippi and its backwaters; mosquitoes have always been, and will always be, a problem........................... it's just worse in the wet springs.
I'll edit in some flooding pics from recent previous years in a bit.
Please let me know how many mosquito fish I should ask the local vector for under these conditions.
This might appear to be a nice lake.
It's actually a cornfield [last year], near where I live, that usually needs irrigation, as the telephoto shows.
These are a few of the pictures I took in 2008.
The view from a river bluff in Henderson County. That distant row of trees on the horizon should be the banks of the Mississippi................. the water is covering several miles of farm ground, a highway, and some homes.
Traffic was light and nobody was enforceing the speed limit that day, but I decided to take another route..
I decided not to take this road either.
The good Lord was taking care of me that day. A railroad levee broke downstream soon after I took this picture, and the only road in or out to get this picture was flooded a couple of hours later. [I was just starting to think of the danger as I snapped the pic. I decided to head downstream for just a couple more pictures and met traffic speeding out................. shouting at me that the levee had broke. I turned around, thinking maybe a few inches of water might reach the road................... the next day I found out it was under 9 feet of flood water]
Hi KTCL,
That may be the gnats life span but if there is still a lot of running water they could have a second or third hatch. Once the water flow slows and the level drops the gnats will be gone until next year. Gnat eggs need a constant flow of water to keep them moist so Steve if you have large areas of standing water ask your local vector control for some mosquito fish (Gambusia affinis) to eat the free swimming larva. Dragon fly larva are also good at eating other larva and Gambusia fry when they are small.
I hope your hatches are 100%!
Joe
There was no standing water around here close, but flash floods left some today. One road leaving here had a foot of water over it. LOL It will be gone before mosquitoes hatch from it, barring more flash flooding in the next day or two. However, I'm just 1/4 mile off the Mississippi and its backwaters; mosquitoes have always been, and will always be, a problem........................... it's just worse in the wet springs.
I'll edit in some flooding pics from recent previous years in a bit.
Please let me know how many mosquito fish I should ask the local vector for under these conditions.
This might appear to be a nice lake.
It's actually a cornfield [last year], near where I live, that usually needs irrigation, as the telephoto shows.
These are a few of the pictures I took in 2008.
The view from a river bluff in Henderson County. That distant row of trees on the horizon should be the banks of the Mississippi................. the water is covering several miles of farm ground, a highway, and some homes.
Traffic was light and nobody was enforceing the speed limit that day, but I decided to take another route..
I decided not to take this road either.
The good Lord was taking care of me that day. A railroad levee broke downstream soon after I took this picture, and the only road in or out to get this picture was flooded a couple of hours later. [I was just starting to think of the danger as I snapped the pic. I decided to head downstream for just a couple more pictures and met traffic speeding out................. shouting at me that the levee had broke. I turned around, thinking maybe a few inches of water might reach the road................... the next day I found out it was under 9 feet of flood water]
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