But then how do you give trespassers malaria?
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thejml@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoJust make sure you have a decent current in it so you don’t breed mosquitoes and It’s all good.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Thought so as well, but we have six “ponds”, 15G to 150G. They attract enough tadpoles, dragonfly larva and other critters to eat the mosquitoes.
When I put in the 150G last spring, figured it would take a year to get rolling. Nope. Within a couple of weeks it was live and kicking. Probably boosted it by throwing native plants from the rivers and swamps in there, dirt and all.
In any case, someone on here turned me onto “mosquito dunk”. It’s a little doughnut of mosquito killing bacteria. Setup 5G buckets around camp and dosed them. I don’t have actual evidence, but it sure seemed to help.
Slowy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Or stock it with some small fish to eat the larvae, and plants to keep the water clean, and invite some frogs and dragonflies, maybe some mink or herons to keep the frogs and fish in check