Is there real skeeter control?

It won't be long now. The black flies and skeeter will be back at us for their dinner. Anyone had luck with products. Like the skeeter esters and yard guards etc? I've use the bug zappers but they only seems to get the non biting bugs. Birds are under them every morning!

 

I have had good luck with fiberglass screens on my deck.

 

Mosquito magnet works well I'm told but they are expensive. A guy I brought wood to this summer showed me his "collection" from 2 mosquito magnets. He had close to a 5 gal pail full in maybe 3 months.

I usually just ignore them or spray some bug dope if they are really bad.

 

Dad makes some homemade stuff out of catnip and something, says it works better than store brands.

 

Mosquito magnets work well, but are expensive. Depends on how bad you want to cut the skeeter populations....

environmental controls are nice and all, but the work: benefit ratio is not great. I usually just slather the repellent on.

 

When I lived on the Manistee river (Swamp) I would spray the yard and the pine trees with a 50/50 mix of dollar store mouthwash and water. This stuff worked better than any other thing we tried. For me I use Cutters because OFF is really bug dope, as I can hear the bugs go "Hey lets go get high on that guy"

 

If I was in a room with 100 people...and there was one mosquito in that room....guess who it would bite first...ME!!

 

Have friends who swear by their Mosquito Magnet rig. They live on a small stream that has many breeding areas for skeeters. I guess they have to dump the bag all the time when the season is at full itch. They sit out on the deck all summer and don't have bugs. The rigs are expensive tho.

 

I think a hard winter like what we had helps more than anything.. But I will be the first to say, if I am in a room full of 100 people, I will be the last to get bit lol. I'm not very sweet I guess but I do smell pretty decent

 

Best thing I've found starts with a case of beer, 6 zapper tennis rackets and a bunch of young men. Set them up around the campfire, feed them beer and give them each a zapper. You can buy them at Ocean State Job Lot for about 5 bucks each. Works like a charm.

 

I'm not that young and it sounds fun.

 

I spent half my summer sitting around the Bon fire with a beer and a bug zapper. Great way to spend a summer evening

 

They work really good on the big spiders in southern Maine. Freaks the ladies out.

 

Weve found that those little Off clip on things work pretty good.

 

mix up some fuel a little oil rich and let the 2 stroke smoke fly

 

Yeah the Mosquito Magnet does work well, I catch a lot of them. Only trouble is placement, it needs to be in an area where you have access to electricity. I'm kind of liking the 50/50 Mouthwash/water idea for those other areas (will have to try that).

 

Two different ways to nip them before they repopulate - Mosquitos don't have a very large radius ~100yds
Non enviro friendly way: Dig holes on your property(with ground water present) wait a week or so into seeing the first few and check the hole for the nymphs, pour a touch of used oil on top and they can't escape.
Better way(the way I do it) - station 5 gallon buckets around your yard with rain water inspect weekly for nymphs and pour the bucket out on smoking hot asphalt.

Basically if you stop the breeding cycle early it cuts down the next generation