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Anyone able to avoid mosquitos?
Posted on 4/28/23 at 8:34 pm
Posted on 4/28/23 at 8:34 pm
These fricktards are apparently invisible and invincible. Thought they disappeared in the cold... Negative. Can't sit outside at sun down, because as soon as the darkness comes I get destroyed.
I sat outside all afternoon (3:00 to 8:30). At about 7:30-8 I started getting attacked. I have damn near 10 bites minimum now.
Anybody have any success in keeping these bastards away? I don't leave standing water around. I just love out in the middle of nowhere, and they seem to be out here every single day at sun down.
I sat outside all afternoon (3:00 to 8:30). At about 7:30-8 I started getting attacked. I have damn near 10 bites minimum now.
Anybody have any success in keeping these bastards away? I don't leave standing water around. I just love out in the middle of nowhere, and they seem to be out here every single day at sun down.
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Posted on 4/28/23 at 8:42 pm to Hold That Tiger 10
Get those orange cans you can hang, citronella candles, and plenty of Off! spray.
Posted on 4/28/23 at 10:44 pm to Hold That Tiger 10
Get yourself a thermacell. They are too expensive to use every day, but those are some amazing devices.
Posted on 4/28/23 at 11:29 pm to Hold That Tiger 10
Try a bubble machine. Never tried it after dark, but at dusk they do well.
Posted on 4/29/23 at 1:20 am to fightin tigers
I used a squirrel cage blower from a 4 ton A/C evaporator/air blower and mounted it on a used Gravely sulky. It has 3 speeds and can be easily rolled around. Bugs used to be thick but now we can all sit outside in comfort. The breeze is nice and usually it's at low speed. The squirrel cage blowers are very quiet.
Posted on 4/29/23 at 5:21 am to Nawlens Gator
get some Bifen IT, mix it up in a sprayer and do a whole yard application including bushes. trees and side of house. Avoid flowering plants because it will kill bees.
It takes care of mosquitos, ants and spiders for about 3 months.
It takes care of mosquitos, ants and spiders for about 3 months.
Posted on 4/29/23 at 6:35 am to Hold That Tiger 10
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This post was edited on 4/29/23 at 6:41 am
Posted on 4/29/23 at 6:36 am to Hold That Tiger 10
Posted on 4/29/23 at 6:39 am to Hold That Tiger 10
We have yard sprayed once a month and haven’t seen a mosquito in years.
Posted on 4/29/23 at 10:28 am to Hold That Tiger 10
Not me. I'm like a damn magnet for them. I can be out on my porch with 10 other people and I'm the one getting bit up by those damn things.
Posted on 4/29/23 at 11:40 am to Hold That Tiger 10
Where do you live? Here in EBR the city will come out once a week and treat your yard. It is covered by our tax dollars. You just call and schedule and appt. The only downside is you have to do it every week, they only schedule one visit at a time. I know you said you live out in the middle of nowhere but you pay taxes, too. Worth checking into.
Posted on 4/29/23 at 2:05 pm to Hold That Tiger 10
Spray the entire yard, trees, shrubs, etc with any concentrated product that have bifenthrin in it.
Posted on 4/29/23 at 9:33 pm to Hold That Tiger 10
That concentrated Cutter Lawn Spray that you spray from your garden hose works well for keeping mosquitoes out of your yard for a couple of weeks. We used to live on a property with a creek on the back property line with swampy land behind it and the mosquitoes were pretty bad. It was miserable until I started spraying Cutter Lawn Spray.
Now we live on a lake and I was sure we would have mosquito problems but we are extremely lucky that we have tons of dragon flies through the summer that decimate mosquitoes and other flying pests.
Now we live on a lake and I was sure we would have mosquito problems but we are extremely lucky that we have tons of dragon flies through the summer that decimate mosquitoes and other flying pests.
Posted on 5/1/23 at 8:59 am to 98eagle
I spray Bifen and spread Talstar every 4 months and haven"t seen a mosquito in 5 years.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 9:58 am to Hold That Tiger 10
We live on a 4 acre pond and they were unbearable. Now we have the acre around the house treated once every three weeks by Mosquito Joe. We can leave the back door open now if we want...worth every penny.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 10:53 am to Hold That Tiger 10
For those that live in a cookie cutter subdivision like myself, how much good does it do to treat your property? Houses in our neighborhood aren't super close, but lots aren't very big. I guess around 80'x160'.
Just wondering how much good it would do to treat my little piece of land when when nothing surrounded is getting treated. Its not like mosquitos know to stay only in certain yards, lol.
A better question might be, what is a mosquito's territorial range?
Just wondering how much good it would do to treat my little piece of land when when nothing surrounded is getting treated. Its not like mosquitos know to stay only in certain yards, lol.
A better question might be, what is a mosquito's territorial range?
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:51 pm to rodnreel
Also a committed Talstar user. My house is near the lakes and backs up to the drainage bayou. Once a month I spray everything with Bifen and never have issues.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 12:53 pm to brickyard
I used to spray about a 4' perimeter around my pool and it knocked them down pretty good even though I had 50' on either side in my backyard.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 2:07 pm to WhiskeyThrottle
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Also a committed Talstar user. My house is near the lakes and backs up to the drainage bayou. Once a month I spray everything with Bifen and never have issues.
Curious what you use to spray with? Regular sprayer or a fogger? Also where do you spray it. Walls? Garden?
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