The worst part of that is that it’s super easy to deal with mosquitos with a dunk that doesn’t hurt anything but mosquito larvae.
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CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day agoI love spending time in my garden watching the butterflies and bees, but gosh the mosquitoes are terrible, better spray them with a residual effect insecticide.
what happened to the birds and butterflies and bees?
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Theres also the disney world methods.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s a load of reading to say:
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No stagnant water.
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Spray mild garlic extract.
I use dragonflies.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thanks for the TLDR. Dragonflies are the worlds most efficient hunters.
You mentioned that you “use” them. Do you introduce them or do they exist naturally where you are? If so, are there ways to increase their numbers? We have some dragonflies, but we have far more mosquitoes! Just curious.
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radix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What’s the worst that could happen if we eradicate all the rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows?
Fondots@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you were able to target it properly to the right species, depending on where you are in the world, there’s a good chance that the rats and sparrows you’re thinking of are invasive.
I know around me in the US I see a whole lot more house sparrows (native to Europe, Asia, and some parts of North Africa) than I do any native Sparrows.
And the two most known rat species- the black and brown rats, originated in different parts of Asia and more-or-less spread around the world with human trade and migration.
So getting rid of those would probably be a good thing to reduce competition for native animals.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
also worth noting that i don’t think anyone who has seen people suffering from malaria would be able to defend mosquitoes, that shit fucking sucks and eradicating malaria-carrying mosquitoes is 500% worth the consequences