(I hope this isn't a duplicate. My initial post froze or something) Anyway, I've got mosquitoes galore in my tree-filled yard. They are eating very well off me, my kids and dogs! I've been doing some reading on mosquito control and am seriously looking at a bat house. My question is ... if I haven't really seen many bats around, if I build a bat house, how do I attract the bats to it?
Has anyone done this before and had success?
http://www.georgiawildlife.com/node/1093
There are propane fired traps but they are expensive. They create CO2 and heat which attracts them towards the unit. once close by they are sucked into a screen bag that is attached to a vacuum ...»
The biggest issue with any kind of attractant type of system is that you also bring in these bugs from areas that normally would never have even been around your home.
We use a very large bug zapper. This seems to work very well for us. But with the very warm weather combined with the occasional showers we have been having the insect population is out of control in some areas of the country. We also use fans. The mosquito is a very light insect often carried many miles in the slightest breeze. Ever try to kill one by slapping your hands together? The air pressure that results oftentimes pushes them out from between your hands. They are not naturally that quick to simply fly away. But the fans tend to push them out of the area to quickly for them to become a bother.
Good luck and let us know what if anything you decide to do.
Woodbridge... the south, with longer warmer climates, breeds more extreme bugs (as Ive unfortunately learned after moving here from Michigan!) :-)
Thanks again for the feedback!
The active ingredient is 0.5% Lambda-cyhalothrin which lists the following: kills grubs, ants, fleas, chinch bugs, mosquitoes, sod webworms, ...»
aphids, beetles, whiteflies, mites, deer ticks, Japanese beetles, European crane flies, fire ants and other listed insects.
Not sure what the "other listed insects" are. I guess that's how they getcha! The spiders seem to be getting along fine. I did get bit last night. Not sure by what. But again, the mosquito population is nowhere near what it was before I sprayed. Hope I didn't disrupt the ecosystem too much.