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?
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?
Just to put my 2 cents in, I have used a mosquito deleto by Coleman for about 10 years. I would not be without it. The problem is that Coleman no longer makes the supplies (attractant, etc) so I must buy another make. I am researching right now, which one to buy. Who cares what type of mosquitos it kills–just get rid of the biting buzzards. About placement, I put it in the bushes in the far corner of the back yard. I only go back there to change the tank. Works great!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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….
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?
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….
Bats come with guano.