Mosquito Haven

Gnarled and leafless trees, vines, and shrubs in standing water, in which a degraded yellow bucket is partially submerged.

I don't think most of the mosquitoes are coming from the pond. The patterns of the duckweed tell me that the winds stir it around a lot. We should still treat it for mosquitoes anyway though.

No, I think this swamp in the neighbor's woods makes a much more pleasant place for them to reproduce in the shelter of all these trees and vines. I'll need to ask his permission to treat that area too. Once I know how.

University of North Carolina uses BTI to organically treat mosquitoes. It's a bacterium that gets into their guts and renders them sterile. Only works in mosquitoes and fungus gnats.

I know about Mosquito Dunks (donut-shaped BTI cookies that work for a month) and Mosquito Bits (granules that work for a week) but this kind of large and hard-to-access situation may need some other method.

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