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Old 09-22-08, 11:56 AM   #5
truckncycle
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I was thinking about this over the weekend and I have to agree with Tree Hugger. One of the best ways to deal with this is with prevention - find and stop the source if possible. Drain standing water, add dunks, or add mosquito fish if they are available. Another option that I thought of is to build and install a bat box on the property. Bats will eat lots of mosquitos. They will also eat other flying insects.

It seems that a lot of the expensive mosquito traps use CO2 generated from Propane as an attractant. Although this is much safer than a lot of the sprays, it burns fossil fuels.
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