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Post by Jolly on Sept 11, 2020 4:34:05 GMT
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Post by joebill on Sept 11, 2020 9:49:17 GMT
Before we got rid of the goldfish pond that was their breeding place, I took to pouring a cup of so of Mazolla oil on the surface nightly, and next morning would have thousands of them dead, glued to one another by the oil.
Only a tiny percentage of the whole, but worthwhile. If a LOT of folks dosed every puddle, it would make a difference....Joe
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Post by Jolly on Sept 11, 2020 17:04:38 GMT
I once sent somebody into a conniption at HT, when I told them what the old-timers did...Mosquitoes are horrible down here, anyway, so the old folks would pour a dollop or so of coal oil(kerosene, for you folks that don't know)into the top of a cistern to do the same thing JB was doing. Only, they didn't pour it in every day.
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Post by joebill on Sept 11, 2020 17:37:04 GMT
You would not need to do it daily in a cistern. In the pond, the water level was near the top of the bank, and the wind would slide the skiff of oil all to one side or the other over night. It would be thick and black with dead skeeters and stacked up along the edge of the water. Scoop and sweep it out and dump in a pile for burning after it dried out, toss in another cup of oil.
Cistern would be far enough under ground to not be subject to wind, so the oil layer should cover the water completely and stay that way. Might have to scoop out the dead skeeters with the oil layer from time to time and replenish, but at least the mazolla oil has no flavor to mess up the water for drinking....It's just corn oil for cooking....Joe
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Sept 11, 2020 18:37:17 GMT
Growing up in Minnesota, where the mosquito is the state bird, I remember the mosquito control people spraying some kind of liquid on the frozen ice of ponds in the wintertime.
Sitting in a patio bar in Cozumel, we noticed all the patrons finishing their drinks and leaving at 5pm. Since it was our first day there, we had no idea why we were the only ones left in a very large area. Then about 15 minutes later the cloud of mosquitoes came out of the jungle, engulfing us. We ran like crazy for the elevator.
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Post by Tim Horton on Sept 11, 2020 19:18:24 GMT
Trivia...
They have an air "gun" of some sort that will launch 2-4 charcoal briquettes quite a ways across swamps and water ways..
The charcoal is saturated in some sort of pheromone that prevents skeeters from reproducing or something to kill them..
Sounds like kind of a fun job....
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Post by joebill on Sept 11, 2020 19:51:35 GMT
Do they have a formula that works on liberals? The riots are a target-rich environment!.....Joe
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Post by Jolly on Sept 11, 2020 20:57:51 GMT
You would not need to do it daily in a cistern. In the pond, the water level was near the top of the bank, and the wind would slide the skiff of oil all to one side or the other over night. It would be thick and black with dead skeeters and stacked up along the edge of the water. Scoop and sweep it out and dump in a pile for burning after it dried out, toss in another cup of oil. Cistern would be far enough under ground to not be subject to wind, so the oil layer should cover the water completely and stay that way. Might have to scoop out the dead skeeters with the oil layer from time to time and replenish, but at least the mazolla oil has no flavor to mess up the water for drinking....It's just corn oil for cooking....Joe Some folks had underground cisterns. A lot of folks had the galvanized metal ones above ground.. 800-1000 gallons being pretty common. |
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Post by ceresone on Sept 12, 2020 14:26:18 GMT
We dumped bleach in ours.
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Post by Jolly on Sept 12, 2020 14:28:54 GMT
We dumped bleach in ours. OMG! You're going to die! (So are all of the rest of us, for that matter). |
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Post by Jolly on Sept 12, 2020 14:31:54 GMT
 Typical photo... |
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Post by Tim Horton on Sept 12, 2020 15:43:22 GMT
Do they have a formula that works on liberals? The riots are a target-rich environment!.....Joe
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I don't know what chemical would work best in this application..
But being the SOB I am the first thing I though of was a couple pigs in a cross fire pattern..
Don't get me started...
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