Skeeters in Horse Barn
Hunter Hampton
I just got this from a friend..... anyone have success against the
little bastards?
"Hunter,
Do you know of any good mosquito systems that kill or repel mosquitoes
in a barn? Some of the fly repellent systems, like you had at your
barn here, also repel mosquitoes. I've also seen the zappers that kill
bugs but don't know how effective they are. Do you know anything about
them? Keith is finishing out the barn at the new house and there are
lots of pesky skeeters. Damn things. What good are they!"
Hunter
cindi
to be set to spray at dusk whent they come up. They don't hang out at
the barn during the day here like flies do; here the mosquitos hang
out in the pasture, in the mud and grass, and come to the barn at
dusk. I don't leave any lights on in the barn at dusk or later which
really really really helps. If I'm stuck out there at dusk with a
lesson and we have to have the lights on it's a real nightmare. Thank
goodness it has cooled off so much this week. I have a bug zapper but
I don't like to leave it plugged in and on; I worry about dust in the
motor and potential for fire. I don't leave anything plugged in in
the barn overnight if I can help it.
take care
cindi
J. Z. M.
> Do you know of any good mosquito systems that kill or repel mosquitoes
> in a barn?
Move North. Ours are nearly all dead now. :))
Jody
Brian Whatcott
This is about as sensible a review as you will find.
...mentions Deep Woods Off, i.e. DEET, picaridin, Mosquito Deleto
(tmColeman), Mosquito Magnet (tmABCorp).
Lose the standing water, dump the ultrasonic repellants,
Citronella not so hot, Avon SkinSoSoft about useless........
Brian W
Joyleen E. Seymour
Not ours and we're further north than you. I'm looking at ordering EEE
for our six month booster if we don't get a killing frost soon.
Mosquito pools in our town and almost every surrounding town tested
positive for EEE.
Ruth Baltopoulos
> J. Z. M. wrote:
>> Move North. Ours are nearly all dead now. :))
Yeah, that's what I thought until they were swarming at the
barn last night from these balmy afternoons.
> Not ours and we're further north than you. I'm looking at ordering EEE
> for our six month booster if we don't get a killing frost soon. Mosquito
> pools in our town and almost every surrounding town tested positive for
> EEE.
Same here.
--
Ruth B
Kirstine Hidalgo
http://www.zero-bug-zone.com/faq.html#3
And it has helped tremendously with our flies and mosquito's in both
our barn and around our house. It also works on Ticks and Fleas, we
have a lot of deer around our house so ticks are inevitable on our
dogs and horses but since getting this I haven't had half the problem!
Kirstine
Kirstine Hidalgo
This is another link, same product but more info...
Dave Smith
> Do you know of any good mosquito systems that kill or repel mosquitoes
> in a barn? Some of the fly repellent systems, like you had at your
> barn here, also repel mosquitoes. I've also seen the zappers that kill
> bugs but don't know how effective they are. Do you know anything about
> them? Keith is finishing out the barn at the new house and there are
> lots of pesky skeeters. Damn things. What good are they!"
The best defense against mosquitoes is to eliminate breeding spots. The
eggs are laid and larvae develop in still water. Make sure there is no
still water in areas around the barn. The land should be sloped to allow
runoff and ditches cleared to allow proper drainage. Remove old barrels,
pails, old tires and anything else that can collect and hold water.
Bug zappers are not effective against biting and stinging insects. They
really only work on moths. Barn swallows, purple matins and bats are
great to have around. Building purple martin homes and having them in
place in time for their nesting season is a good investment. They need
to be cleaned out every year.
We used to have a lot of mosquitoes around our place. There was an
orchard next door and there were a lot of tractor tire ruts where water
sat. Once the orchard was removed and land levelled their number dropped
dramatically. Then I put in a small water pond and stocked it with gold
fish and minnows. It was the perfect breeding spot for the mosquitoes.
Then the fish ate the eggs and larvae. For several years I had almost
no mosquitoes. Then came the summer of 2008 and the almost constant
rain. They were a problem, but not as bad as they used to be.
J. Z. M.
Mine are nearly gone. :) I do have a barn full of barn swallows each year,
this year we had nine nests and two clutches in each nest. I have nearly
four in each clutch, and give or take a dead parent from cat attacks that
makes for great mosquito eating. In midsummer I had nada mosquitos and as
the year goes on the birds leave, they have flown the coop now, and the
mosquitos do breed after the birds leave but rarely get bad. All summer I
can sit outside with nary a bug, the ring is sand, and my ground is high so
getting those nasties is there but not a big problem. I would never go out
in the woods at dusk, then we'd have all the backwoods ones coming in on us.
Though deer flies are worse!
EEE is always positive in mucky ponds! WN is positive too. The birds leave
and stop eating the eggs, Robins, Swallows, and many other migratory birds
keep the bugs at bay. Now they all have the good sense to go to Mexico! :)
Jody
Brian Whatcott
<adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
....
>The best defense against mosquitoes is to eliminate breeding spots. The
>eggs are laid and larvae develop in still water. Make sure there is no
>still water in areas around the barn. The land should be sloped to allow
>runoff and ditches cleared to allow proper drainage. Remove old barrels,
>pails, old tires and anything else that can collect and hold water.
Which reminds me. A week or two ago, I took a kayak trip down a local
river. The level of these things varies from an inch to a torrent,
depending on the rainfall in the prior day or two.
On this occasion, there had been rain, so the approach was a little
muddy. As soon as I launched, in the hour or two before dusk, I
realised I had not applied insect repellent, and expected the worst:
why, even lingering on my grassy front yard at disk can be painful.
An hour or so later, as it was growing dim, I realised as I pulled out
- not a single mozzy bite. I was paddling on flowing water, and that
made all the difference.
Brian W
Dave Smith
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:22:53 -0400, Dave Smith
>
>
> river. The level of these things varies from an inch to a torrent,
> depending on the rainfall in the prior day or two.
> On this occasion, there had been rain, so the approach was a little
> muddy. As soon as I launched, in the hour or two before dusk, I
> realised I had not applied insect repellent, and expected the worst:
> why, even lingering on my grassy front yard at disk can be painful.
>
> An hour or so later, as it was growing dim, I realised as I pulled out
> - not a single mozzy bite. I was paddling on flowing water, and that
> made all the difference.
True. Mosquitoes like still water. Black Flies OTOH, like moving water.
If you live in an area where the you get black flies and mosquitoes you
get no relief from them.