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?
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.
I’m putting up 100 bat houses with 500 bats. I love bats! Hope my neighbors do too!
im trying to set up a bat house with five bats
Sounds grim. Has anyone had a positive experience using one of these devices in a row-house yard?
deet
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.
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.
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.
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.