The fountain is solar powered, and I set it for its max of 4 hours a day, but I
cannot keep the water surface agitated all day, to prevent the egg laying.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ no_reply@ wrote:
I put a small decorative pond (100 gallons or so) in my yard, with a
fountain. Love it, except mosquitos lay eggs on the water, constantly. My
previous effort to eradicate them, has been by spraying the larvae with
ammonia - Windex, which evaporates quickly. But that is only good for the
ones I can see. I didn't want to poison the water, because it has become a
drinking source for small animals and birds.
Then I read about this bacteria, called BTI, which is time released from
these donut looking things, and only toxic to mosquito larvae, and biting
fly larvae. Tried it two days ago and voila, no more skeeters, and no harm
to anything else.
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Good one, but couldn't you have made the water turbid enough with a bigger
splash factor like spraying water features or other way to keep the water
moving?
