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How about a bat box so more bats live in the area and eat the mosquitos. Salamanders also eat mosquitos but the materials most people use to kill mosquitos, lik
by kiliantics 3y ago
How about a bat box so more bats live in the area and eat the mosquitos. Salamanders also eat mosquitos but the materials most people use to kill mosquitos, like permethrin, unfortunately also kill salamanders.
I am a mosquito magnet too and spend summer in an area that's not quite subtropical but is pretty full of them. I find them to really just be a minor nuisance at certain times of day which I can avoid with the right clothing or staying behind screens. And I often don't even bother and just tolerate some minor itchiness from their bites. I don't really get all the fuss.
Apart from regions with malaria, I don't understand the lengths people go to eradicate them, especially since they are usually pretty ecologically destructive.
- sdenton4 3y agoThere's a lovely variety of mosquito-borne diseases, most notably malaria and West Nile virus, which lead to a Real Bad Time. I've been helping out a bit in a project for mosquito eradication in Hawaii, where avian malaria transmitted by invasive mosquitoes is threatening a number of endemic birds species with extinction.
- glxxyz 3y agoUnfortunately bats don't eat many mosquitos as they prefer other insects. They should eat a few though.