-Mosquitos: Nocturnal Nightmare !!

[CockroachYet]

-Also you hate the nocturnal nightmare mosquitos? also drive you crazy to hate them so deeply when these looking for your blood? how can I destroy them indoors without chemicals which may damage my indoors jewel live invertebrates? How you destroy them at midnight effectively without chemicals? How you controlling this nightmare? Really I hate the nightmare nocturnal mosquitos !! Please, good efectivelly solutions against them.
-Thank you, best regards.

 

[The Snark]

-Also you hate the nocturnal nightmare mosquitos? also drive you crazy to hate them so deeply when these looking for your blood? how can I destroy them indoors without chemicals which may damage my indoors jewel live invertebrates? How you destroy them at midnight effectively without chemicals? How you controlling this nightmare? Really I hate the nightmare nocturnal mosquitos !! Please, good efectivelly solutions against them.
-Thank you, best regards.

None.
We use a mosquito net over the bed. If there was an effective killer it would be in use here (Thailand). The fancy odor and light attractors are minimally effective at best. If you find an effective killer, about a third of the entire world would like to hear about it.

 

[bugmankeith]

What about a fire, like a campfire to repel them. Also get rid of any standing water outside.

 

[KennyGee]

The bestway is to buy a mosquieto trap and put dry ice in it (dryice admits carbon dioxoide wich there attracted too)

 

[kraken]

Those do work pretty good.We put one in our back yard and it does good.

 

[The Snark]

Suggestions

I went and did a little research.

As mentioned, dry ice, (carbon dioxide) can attract mossies into your trap.
The black lights (or dark blue) are a waste of money. Cool white flourescents work just as well to attract mosquitos.
There is also some kind of chemical that is used in the super delux very expensive mossie killer. Those killers incidentally were tested here, Thailand) and several other places. Their kill ability rated them near useless.

The suggestions are. If at all possible, eliminate standing water locations where mosquitos can breed. Make a nice pond for them to breed in and stock it with mosquito or similar fish. That turns the pond into an effective mosquito killer.
For night biters, build a large box with a narrow opening for the mossies to go hide in during the day. Put an exhaust fan on the opposite side from the opening that draws the air inside the box through a screen. The fan needs to draw air current faster than the mossies can fly against it. Turn the fan on, a timer is best, just before dawn and off around midnight. (The mossies will avoid entering with the fan on so you want it off when they head for bed.
Grab a can, or a lot more, of yard fogger insect killer. At the opposite time of day when the mossies are flying around the most, fog all dense foliage around your home. As example, if they come out in the early evening, fog in the early morning. While pesticides are horrible, you only need to give your foliage one or two thorough doses. You want to fog when the mosquitos have gone to rest. They usually sleep on the underside of leaves in dense foliage.
In smaller area like patios, small high velocity fans like found in electronic equipment cabinets run fast enough to kill any mosquito that gets sucked in. Use the fans in conjunction with cool white flourescent lights and CO2 for increased kill ability.
Try to avoid having blue or cool white lights shine into the areas surrounding your house as they will attract mosquitos. Mossies fly up to 4 miles in a 24 hour period in search of blood.
If surrounded by lots of standing water locations, find out if you can use bacillus Thuringiensis in the water.

Hope this helps a little.

 

[Galapoheros]

I've been using a method for getting rid of mosquitos in my house for several years now. I hate them. It's one of the few bugs I don't mind killing. Someone at a place I used to work told me about this. They read it somewhere. I've been using it ever since. Really! ..this works! You are just going to have to try it out for yourself. It's not chemical free but it's not a pesticide. The threat it poses to your bugs is minimal. It's..............WINDEX! When you see a mosquito in your house, grab a bottle of Windex (nozzle on "spray" mode), spray the flying mosquito in mid-air and it will fall like a...dead mosquito. It just stops flying. After that, you may see it bouncing around on the floor. I just give it another short spray on the floor. IT WORKS! I was real happy to hear about this method. If I see or hear a mosquito in my room, I don't bother trying to chase it down and trying to swat it with my hand anymore. I just go get the Windex. On bad mosquito days, I carry a bottle outside with me.

 

[Stylopidae]

I use denatured alcohol. Dissolves their nervous system almost instantly, it seems.

 

[Galapoheros]

I may try that too someday. Windex also takes care of those little clouds of gnat-like flies that can get irritating when you outside working around the house or out in the country. Just spray in the cloud and they fall all at once to the ground. It may be the alcohol in the Windex that zaps them, don't know(?)

 

[Thoth]

Its ammonia in Windex.

EC are spraying the them with alcohol? or are you adding it to standing water?
Because I don't advise spraying it because alcohol vapors really flammable and had a collegue go up in flames when squirting it near an open flame. Not to mention inhaling it isn't the best thing.

 

[Stylopidae]

Its ammonia in Windex.

EC are spraying the them with alcohol? or are you adding it to standing water?
Because I don't advise spraying it because alcohol vapors really flammable and had a collegue go up in flames when squirting it near an open flame. Not to mention inhaling it isn't the best thing.

I don't do it all the time. Mostly at work. We sometimes get mosquitoes and gnats that come in with costumers and we use pure denatured alcohol (or maybe a 70% mixture...not sure) to clean the photolab equipment.

 

[Mr_Baker4420]

no no no no people. check out "american biophysics" it's a company that will give you the cure to your ailment. they're kinda steep but they're worth it. i own three.

 

[Galapoheros]

I've thought about getting one of those mosquito catchers for a few years. My parents beat me to it last year. I believe they got theirs at SAMS. I think it's a cheapy. I believe they work but I wasn't impressed with theirs. I was getting bit allot at their house and I only saw a few in the bag they fall into. .....Windex for the lose ones in the house!!!!! Try it!

 

[The Snark]

The American Biophysics thing is what was tested here, Thailand, and deemed mostly ineffective. If you have a very sparse population of mosquitos in general, it will work. But dense populations over a wide area, forget it.

As was explained to me by the ultimate mossie hunter*.
Mosquitos aren't natural predators. While they use smell to help detect a victim, their hunting is primitive and relies on luck for the most part. Therefore, mosquito attractors must also rely on luck. In a test environment a subject sat at one end of the room, an odor and light attractor at the other end. After a one hour period, the test subject had approximately as many mosquito bites as the attractor had trapped mosquitos.

* A man here in Thailand set out to identify the prevalent mosquitos in S.E. Asia. There were thought at that time to be some 20 to 30 different kinds. So far he has identified over 460 different species and the count keeps growing.

 

[Thoth]

It turns out that many of these things are actually species dependant different species depending on when they hunt they tend to be more dependant on different stimuli.

Several Journal articles on efficacy of repellants
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/128/11/931

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content...nt&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT


Depending on where you live setting up a bat house will attract insect bats that'll put a big dent in local mosquito populations

 

[CockroachYet]

-Hello, thank you to all for reply, I was readed all the hints and all are very informatives, so I will take care of all these.
-Thank you !! best regards.

 

[sick4x4]

live plants?

i had heard that there a few plants that are natural replents??? i dont know how true they are, but you might want to look into that or breed your own Mosquito hawks lol!!

 

[CockroachYet]

-Hello, please tell me the names of these nice plants !! I want a lot of these plants !!
-Thank you, best regards.

 

[Galapoheros]

What comes to my mind are the Citronella (sp?) plants. I've seen them at Home Depot. I think most nurseries will carry them. They sell them as mosquito repelling plants. Don't know if they really work. Personally, I doubt it. But maybe if you had 50+ (which some would be willing to do) it might work a little bit. I don't know. Yes, it's where they get the repelling ingredient for the candles.

Oh, you're in Mexico! Well maybe you could grow them in ground and keep them alive year after year. You could plant them around your yard.

 

[CockroachYet]

-Yes, I could fill the yard with these plants year around. I shall investigating where find these plant species here. Thank you.