Mosquito help

[colleyvillesooner]

What's the best remedies for keeping the Mosquitos at bay in my backyard? We like to eat out back by the pool every once in awhile, but them skeeters are bad. Looking for what works here in north Texas.

TIA.

[NormanPride]

Can you spray malathion? That's what we do...

[SCOUT]

DDT

[Stitch Face]

piledriver

[C&CDean]

Mow your damn grass. Put up martin houses. Them damn birds will eat their weight in skeeters.

[soonerinabilene]

burn your backyard. they hate smoke.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

I heard this works (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhubpages.com%2Fhub%2FHome_made_Mo squito_Trap&rct=j&q=homemade+mosquito+trap&ei=aDLfS7GsLImmNr6f3N8H&usg=AFQjCNFNtdPyc3cPdMVABf45OQxvwMwlOA)

[JohnnyMack]

piledriver

Employ Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka to stand on your back porch and dive off the table and take 'em out one by one.

[GKeeper316]

call bill gates... hes apparently taken it upon himself to rid the world of disease spreading mosquitos.

[badger]

I am starting to love hose attachments.

http://di1.shopping.com/images1/pi/53/df/0b/94882651-149x149-0-0_Monterey+Monterey+All+Natural+3+in+1+Garden+Inse ct.jpg

I am not sure of the brand, just look in the pest supply area and you'll see something shaped like this. It's just like watering your lawn.

Also, as Deano suggested, mow your lawn and convince purple martins (or even bats) to live in or near your backyard.

It's incredibly easy and it works... the hose attachment, not the Deano ideas. :D

[Chuck Bao]

Mow your damn grass. Put up martin houses. Them damn birds will eat their weight in skeeters.

This is still a good thing even if they don't really eat all those skeeters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Martin


Diet
Purple Martins are aerial insectivores, meaning that they catch insects from the air. The birds are agile hunters and eat a variety of winged insects. Rarely, they will come to the ground to eat insects. They usually fly relatively high, so, contrary to popular opinion, mosquitos do not form a large part of their diet.

In Thailand, we burn those mosquito coil thingys. They're cheap and effective.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_coil

[Breadburner]

Eliminate all sources of standing water.....Do not forget the gutters......

[Lott's Bandana]

Mow your damn grass. Put up martin houses. Them damn birds will eat their weight in skeeters.

This.

And they are great fun to watch...they are very, very good at what they do.

They seemed to make a difference in my former Florida backyard. Of course, they ate the mosquito-eating dragonfly's too.

[Okla-homey]

Skeeters are supposedly attracted by CO2 and exposed flesh. You could hire some homeless people to run around shirtless until they start gasping and wheezing while you're outdoors.

Problem solved.

[AlbqSooner]

Move to the desert - AZ or NM. No water=no skeeters. YWIA

[GottaHavePride]

http://www.greatdreams.com/war/sherman_flamethrower.jpg




Seriously, though. Dean's advice about purple martins is the best.

[colleyvillesooner]

Mow your damn grass. Put up martin houses. Them damn birds will eat their weight in skeeters.

There isn't any grass in our backyard. It's all pool, pool deck and bark areas.

I'll check out the Martin houses though.

Thanks.

[colleyvillesooner]

Eliminate all sources of standing water.....Do not forget the gutters......

Just finished the gutters this weekend. Clean as a whistle. Soon as the water that is there now dries up, i have a hole to fill in byu my pool equipment for when it was worked on. That should get all sources.

[Crucifax Autumn]

Move to the desert - AZ or NM. No water=no skeeters. YWIA

None here either. Since 2003 I've never seen a skeeter and I've seen about 4 flies.