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May 20, 2008
Mosquito Magnet Placement
What is the best placement for a mosquito magnet in a rowhouse backyard? We'd like to use all parts of the yard. Has anyone put it on the deck, extension room, or house roof?
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Best placement is in your neigbors yard.
It will attract mosquitos to the general vicinity of wherever it is located.
Mosquito magnets, especially in NYC, do not work. All you are doing is bringing the concentration of mosquitos in your yard up while thining out the concentration of neighboring areas. I sure hope you are my neighbor - Thanks for releiving me of the mosquito headache.
Posted by: guest at May 20, 2008 2:25 PM
summer's coming; going to start to be a bunch of very active mosquito posts in the coming months. I read the archives a while ago and all the mosquito related posts i could find. There aren't many easy answers and no complete solution for everyone.
For me i'm going to try a new product that is supposed to keep mosquitos away for a few hours. It is also suppossed to be significatly more effective than citronella.
http://www.offprotects.com/mosquito-repeller/
http://www.mosquitorepellent.com/patio-lantern.asp
off course the first thing to do before anything else is to eliminate any standing water in your yard and if you see standing water in neihbors yards ask them to do the same.
Posted by: reno911 at May 20, 2008 3:11 PM
Mosquito magnets attract and trap mosquitoes from a large surrounding area. As others have stated, it will bring a lot more of them into your backyard for a period of time before all the mosquitoes in your area are trapped and killed. Given the number of places in a urban environment for water to pool and provide them a place to spawn, you might spend a month with the thing running, making your backyard a swarm filled hell, before the legion of the little vampires is exterminated. You are better off with a chemical repellent. Citronella misters, candles, and other non-toxic means, are probably your best bet unless you go to the really nasty yet effective stuff.
Posted by: guest at May 20, 2008 3:30 PM
I'm almost afriad to ask because I fear being heaped with the usual BS opprobrium, but what's the really nasty yet effective stuff? Sorry but my neighbors just don't keep their backyards well drained, and i can't be eaten up yet again this summer every time I set foot in my backyard - so I'm willing to consider commiting a crime against the environment.
Posted by: geekspice at May 20, 2008 4:43 PM
deet
Posted by: reno911 at May 20, 2008 4:53 PM
Sounds grim. Has anyone had a positive experience using one of these devices in a row-house yard?
Posted by: John Lydon at May 20, 2008 6:23 PM
im trying to set up a bat house with five bats
Posted by: guest at May 20, 2008 6:41 PM
I'm putting up 100 bat houses with 500 bats. I love bats! Hope my neighbors do too!
Posted by: guest at May 20, 2008 9:11 PM
Deet is a direct crime against your health. And ours. Why not try the bat thing? And do rub citronella or garlick on your exposed skin.
Posted by: zapzap at May 21, 2008 9:37 AM
Bats come with guano.
Posted by: Bklyn Fire Alarm Guy at May 21, 2008 10:03 AM
Are you getting the house WITH bats? COOL! I thought bats were dying off, so gave up on the bat house idea. Nose fungus or something....
Posted by: guest at May 21, 2008 10:11 AM
I'd love a bat house. But I thought you had to put up the house and then it takes a few years for the bats to move in?
Posted by: geekspice at May 21, 2008 12:44 PM
any tips for mosquito problems INSIDE and apartment. Our building doesn't have screens on the hallways windos and every summer my apartment is overrun. this year I've got a baby daughter, so I'm more worried than usuall....
Posted by: guest at May 21, 2008 3:35 PM
My neighbor picked up a mosquito magnet, but too late we realized that it does not work on tiger mosquitos, which seems to be the primary ones that we have in the back.
I put a bat house on my roof. I followed all the instructions to a tee, positioned it in the right direction, unobstructed approach, set it high enough,blah, blah, blah. Three years later...No bats!
Posted by: Bond at May 21, 2008 5:02 PM
i own a mosquito magnet and live in park slope. this is the third season we'll be using it. my neighbors and i have noticed an appreciable decrease in mosquitoes. empirical proof: my three year old son had many fewer stings than last year. it works by disrupting the reproductive cycle of mosquitoes. it takes about 2 months to notice a difference. sure, this was not a controlled experiment using a hypothetico-deductive methodology, but i think it should suffice to prove that this device works.
we do not have tiger mosquitoes up here. they exist in the south. if you have them, you can use a different lure compound to attract them. there are different lures for difference species.
good luck.
Posted by: guest at May 22, 2008 11:45 AM
We've had one for three years. I was entirely skeptical at first, but after 6-8 weeks, there was a noticeable decline in mosquito activity.
Posted by: guest at May 22, 2008 12:41 PM
I"ve been told that bats won't bother to come over here when they have Prospect park and probably Fort Greene park as well for better pickins. Has anyone had any luck with bats at all?
And thanks to Global warming, we DO have Tiger mosquitos this far north.
Posted by: guest at July 13, 2008 7:18 PM
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