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Mosquito Wars, Revisited

Following a quick outage to my blog’s hosting provider (apparently a cooling system failure occurred at the data center), I’m back online.

And I’ve decided that more mosquitos need to die. There’s not much we can agree on as a culture, but I think this is one of them. Whatever ecological niche these creatures inhabit, I can only guess. Spiders need them, maybe? Or small birds? I don’t care. Die!

So I have installed another mosquito bucket.

Mosquito Wars

The first one has been surprisingly effective. After it went up, mosquito bites went from a near certainty to a mere high probability – but odds that were mitigated satisfactorily with a fogger. This year, however, set rainfall records, so for the low cost of another bucket, I’m trying one in a different corner of the yard.

It’s been too rainy to enjoy the deck as of late, but I’m hopeful. I even have signage up for interested neighbors. Maybe I can start a trend.

–Simon

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Mosquito Wars

A year ago I installed a mosquito bucket, inoculated with Bacillus thuringiensis, which supposedly kills larvae before they pupate into bastard bloodsuckers. I remained unconvinced.

Eternal Damnation

It turns out that the color of the bucket makes all the difference, as mosquitos, being the tiny demons that they are, like darkness. So when last year’s bucket cracked, I replaced it with a black one.

And behold!

It’s difficult to tell from the photo, but there were larvae (those white grub things). And one was dead. I’ll take that as confirmation that the deathtrap is now finally working!

Small victories.

–Simon