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by: ToddGalbraith Active Indicator LED Icon 7 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Jun 19, '16 9:49pm  
Mosquitos?
 
So I'm curious about everyone's experience with mosquitos in The Woodlands these days. Frankly they don't bother me so I don't notice them. After all of these rainstorms, what has been your experience?
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ToddGalbraith Active Indicator LED Icon 7 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Jun 19, '16 9:52pm  
...and have you taken care of any standing water in your yard?
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ToddGalbraith Active Indicator LED Icon 7 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Jun 19, '16 9:52pm  
As a community service, I have added about 30 guppies to local ponds to eat the mosquito larvae. Those guppies breed more than rabbits, and I don't know what else to do with them....
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plymouth Active Indicator LED Icon 7
~ 7 years ago   Jun 20, '16 7:36am  
They are definitely out there. I wonder if they will spray considering the risks with the zika virus.
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ToddGalbraith Active Indicator LED Icon 7 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Jun 20, '16 8:22am  
Does anyone know about the plan to "spray for mosquitos" in The Woodlands this season? I've heard in the past they they have cut down on spraying, focusing more on reducing mosquito habitat such as having neighbors remove standing water in their yards. But I'm bracing myself for quite an infestation with all the rains we've had....
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MRStone Active Indicator LED Icon
~ 7 years ago   Jun 20, '16 3:08pm  
I live around some older buildings with bats that come out at dusk and so far haven't had much of a problem where I live. If we could have more bats, we could help this problem instead of spraying chemicals every where. But we have to get rid of them.
Maybe we could train the mosquito to eat fire ants....
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ToddGalbraith Active Indicator LED Icon 7 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Jun 20, '16 3:20pm  
@MRStone what an excellent idea! haha yes I agree about the bats. Having natural predators is the best solution. As long as they don't fly in ladies' hair (isn't that supposedly one of their worst nightmares?)
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sstonetx Active Indicator LED Icon 11
~ 7 years ago   Jun 20, '16 3:37pm  
I can't sit on my patio in the summer at dawn or dusk. The mosquitos are awful! The drainage system harbors all kinds of awful stuff. My drains are never dry. They run into s retention pond. I can't see how mosquitos are not breeding in them. They need to be treated. Spraying would certainly help, as well.
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~ 7 years ago   Jun 20, '16 3:42pm  
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plymouth Active Indicator LED Icon 7
~ 7 years ago   Jun 20, '16 6:28pm  
They are especially awful in the Alden Bridge area. I don't know if it's because there are more trees or what. I wish they would spray more.
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Frankie Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 7 years ago   Jun 20, '16 8:48pm  
Mosquito dunks (donut shape) and Mosquito bits (granular) work pretty well to keep the population from multiplying. HD, Lowe's and Ace Hardware carry them.
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ToddGalbraith Active Indicator LED Icon 7 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Jun 20, '16 9:03pm  
@Frankie yeah I have some of those. I'm with @sstonetx in that the drainage ditches are often the culprit with a lot of standing water in them.
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~ 7 years ago   Jun 20, '16 9:04pm  
@Frankie Those might work for people's houses, but when I walk on paths, I hate to have to spray on tons of mosquito repellent. I am not sure how that is safer than spraying to kill off the mosquito population.
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Frankie Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 7 years ago   Jun 20, '16 9:09pm  
Even with spraying, the path areas have to have multipile low lying, hard to reach areas. Keep the spray handy!
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Frankie Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 7 years ago   Jun 20, '16 9:14pm  
drainage ditches are often the culprit

@ToddGalbraith : If you can tie them to something, holding them in place so the next rain doesn't wash them away, it might keep on killing larvae. I do that in the french drains in the yard.
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ToddGalbraith Active Indicator LED Icon 7 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Jun 20, '16 10:42pm  
@Frankie the challenge is that there are so many long ditches that it is difficult to put dunks in them all.
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